Only
11 private
schools in the
KMC changed
their foreign
names :
Officials at
the
metropolis'
education
department say
many schools
with foreign
names refused
to rename
citing various
reasons
(kp
07/10/2024) [Renaming the schools is complete nonsense anyway and
misunderstood
nationalism in
a multiethnic
and
multilingual
country!]
Teaching-learning
in uncertainty
after dozens
of schools
inundated in
Sarlahi
(rep
06/10/2024)
Govt
decides to
close all
schools for
three days,
halt all
ongoing
examination
(rep
28/09/2024)
Politics and
education,
by Manish
Lamichhane (ae
25/09/2024)
Task
force submits
report on
technical and
vocational
education
curriculum
reform
(rep
23/09/2024)
A
tale of
missing tutors
: More efforts
should be made
to retain
teachers in
rural areas
and discourage
private
tuition
(kp
18/09/2024)
Educational
institutions
in Nepal
dislike
critical
debate, by
Min Bahadur
Pariyar (ae
17/09/2024)
Kathmandu
metropolis has
95.5 per cent
literacy
(kh
13/09/2024)
Snow
leopard study
incorporated
in local
curriculum in
Mustang :
Conservationists
hope that
retaliatory
killings of
snow leopards,
one of the
major
challenges to
conservation
efforts, would
decline in the
coming days
(kp
11/09/2024)
Karnali’s
autistic
children left
in the lurch
as budget
crunch
cripples
support
services :
There are
around 300,000
autistic
children in
Nepal who face
significant
educational
challenges,
by Tripti
Shahi (kp
06/09/2024)
Dismal
narratives of
education :
Education is
more necessary
for those who
obstruct and
politicise it,
by Abhi Subedi
(kp
01/09/2024)
Minister
Bhattarai
building on
predecessor’s
efforts to
tackle
political
influence in
education :
Says partisan
interference
is causing
degradation of
Nepal’s
education
sector, and
politicisation
will not stop
without strong
commitment
from parties
(kp
29/08/2024), Urgent
need for
EdTech
integration in
Nepal’s
education
system, by
Subodh Dahal
(rep
29/08/2024)
Ministry
unveils
blueprint to
ensure free
education : An
extra Rs222.91
billion is
needed to give
every child
free,
compulsory
education, and
to hire 50,000
more teachers,
by Binod
Ghimire (kp
22/08/2024)
Nepal’s education
crisis: A call
for reform and
equity, by
Samriddha
Upreti (ae
22/08/2024)
Shaping global
influence
through Nepali
students,
by Seshraj
Bhattarai (ae
20/08/2024) [ECAN (Educational Consultancy Association of Nepal)
seems to be a
good
organisation,
but it is even
worse than the
politics
socially
extremely
non-inclusive
and completely
dominated by
male Bahuns!]
Critical
literacy
education for
empowerment
and liberation,
by Jeevan
Karki (rep
19/08/2024)
Where
did over
762,000 school
children go?,
by Basanta
Dhungana (rep
18/08/2024)
Merger
of government
schools
benefits
private ones,
by Ruby
Rauniyar (rep
17/08/2024)
Heramba's School Of
Academic
Excellence,
by Manjima
Dhakal (rn
16/08/2024)
A
textbook case
of bad writing
: From grammar
to syntax,
Nepali
textbooks,
even those
prescribed by
expensive
schools, read
awful, by
Deepak Thapa
(kp
25/07/2024)
Challenges
Facing the
Nepali
Education
System : Over
50% of
students
failed to
secure any
grades in SEE,
by Anuricca
Giri (rep
24/07/2024)
Issue
of converting
private
schools into
trusts
resurfaces :
House
committee
begins
discussions on
School
Education Bill
that was
registered in
Parliament
last September,
by Binod
Ghimire (kp
19/07/2024)
Textbook
case of bad
textbooks :
Grade 9 Social
Studies
textbooks
present a
toxic
interpretation
of the open
Nepal-India
border, by
Chandra
Kishirew (nt
19/07/2024)
Education
Minister
Bhattarai
prioritizes
new Education
Act (kh
16/07/2024)
Karnali:
Ministry of
Social
Development
prioritizes
construction
of physical
infrastructures
of schools in
79 local
bodies (kh
14/07/2024)
Community
initiatives in
Lumbini
Province are
helping
dropout girls
return to
school : In
the villages
of Rupandehi,
cultural norms
and economic
pressures keep
many Dalit and
Muslim girls
from school,
by Sanju
Paudel (kp
11/07/2024)
Over
50 percent of
community
schools in
country have
less than 100
students (kh
10/07/2024)
We
are to be
blamed!, by
Sambridhi Gyawali
(rep 05/07/2024)
Ensure
Quality
Education To All,
by Lok Deep Thapa
(rn 05/07/2024)
Technology
Makes Classrooms
Creative, by
Tulasi Acharya (rn
05/07/2024)
KMC
to restructure primary
education into two
levels (rep
15/06/2024)
Exodus
of human capital :
Education abroad doesn’t
guarantee success, but
our students aren’t sure
about the quality here
(kp 14/06/2024))
Expanding
Social Stakes In Education,
by Mukti Rijal (rn 13/06/2024)
Patan
High Court orders KMC not to
padlock schools until June 21
(rep 13/06/2024)
NNTA
shows concerns over budgetary
ignorance to education sector
(kh 11/06/2024)
Education
Commission report, kept secret by Oli
government, made public : Education
ministry says Prime Minister Dahal will
help Minister Shrestha implement the
recommendations (kp 08/06/2024)
Are
We Educating to Cheat?, by Fr. Augustine
Thomas (rep 01/06/2024)
Values
Of Eastern And Western Education, by Pushpa
Priya (rn 01/06/2024)
In
Kathmandu, more than 7,000 children aged six to
eight years are out of school : Children in the
floating population, of parents working in
factories or of those residing in slums, who do
not go to schools, could get deprived of health
care programmes (kp 27/05/2024)
Empower
Youth With Sex Education, by Shyam P Lohani
(rn 24/05/2024)
Because
old habits die hard, right? Will lower fees
result in reduced salaries or job insecurity for
teachers?, by Ashansa Mulmi (rep 25/05/2024)
Nepal
lacks research-based education : Academician and
activist Pratima Gurung discusses reading
culture and the exclusion of marginalised and
indigenous narratives in the curriculum
(interview) (kp 23/05/2024)
Children
from impoverished families missing school or
struggling with attendance : Dropout rates and
irregular attendance are high among girls, says
Achham local unit official, by Menuka
Dhungana (kp 22/05/2024)
KMC
verifying new names of private schools, 128
renamed : Officials at the education department
of the metropolis say some schools have changed
their names through the Office of the Company
Registrar (kp 17/05/2024)
Bridging
education and employment : We must explore
innovative strategies to effectively manage
human resources and combat unemployment, by
Prakriti Nepal (kp 17/05/2024)
Education
Minister appeals for reusing textbooks (rn
12/05/2024)
Need
for counselling as students complain of rigid
school rules : Students and mental health
facilitators believe that regular school
counselling can go a long way in creating a
healthy learning environment, by Manushree
Mahat (kp 11/05/2024)
Community
schools in Kanchanpur undergo mergers,
downgrades amid falling enrolment : Officials
say the move aims to ensure student retention
and teacher positions in community schools that
are struggling with resources, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 02/05/2024)
KMC
bars private schools from collecting admission
fees from continuing students ; Warns of legal
action. But schools say law allows them to levy
some charge annually, by Arjun Poudel (kp
20/04/2024)
On
the right track : Eliminating partisan politics
from educational spaces could greatly improve
the quality of education (kp 18/04/2024)
Nearly
200 private schools in Kathmandu Metropolis
apply for name changes : The city office says
plans to strictly enforce the rules once the
deadline expires (kp 17/04/2024) [What nonsense! Instead, the
quality of the education system should be
improved!]
Unified
academic calendar enhances coordination among
schools in Karnali province : Earlier, varying
calendars posed problems in managing textbooks,
scholarships and teacher training, student
migration, and temporary enrolment, by
Krishna Prasad Gautam (kp 16/04/2024)
KMC
expands capacity to teach 12,000 additional
students in the metropolis (rep 13/04/2024)
Textbooks
reach all districts; student enrollment campaign
from April 14 (kh 11/04/2024)
Strengthening
education through textbook audit, by
Prakriti Nepal (ae 10/04/2024)
80%
of schools nationwide receive textbooks for new
academic year: JEMC (kh 08/04/2024)
Education
ministry warns against enrolling children in
unapproved foreign schools in Nepal (rep
08/04/2024)
Education
Should Spark Critical Discourse, by Dev Raj
Dahal (rn 06/04/2024)
Inclusiveness
not just theory in this school : Kanya Mandir in
Kathmandu puts inclusiveness into practice by
balancing education with religious tolerance,
by Shamshad Ahmad (nt 05/04/2024)
Develop
Local Capacity To Run Schools, by Mukti
Rijal (rn 04/04/2024)
Nuances
Of Englishes: Teaching English in Nepal, by
Amar Bahadur Sherma (rep 30/03/2024)
KMC
sets deadline for private schools to adopt
Nepali identity in names (kp 29/23/2024) [Completely unimportant
nonsense and undemocratic paternalism!],
Lessons
not learnt, homework not done : Nepal’s identity
is reflected not by the names of schools, but by
the quality of instruction in them (nt
05/04/2024)
SEE
commences peacefully throughout country (rn
28/03/2024), Visually
impaired, inmate appear in SEE (rn
28/03/2024)
Some
Rolpa schools are teaching students livelihood
skills alongside classroom education : Students
cultivate crops, rear livestock, and make
handicraft items. ‘Kamaundai padhdai’ or
earn-as-you-learn campaign is gaining traction,
by Kashiram Dangi (kp 23/03/2024)
CSE-
Where technology meets tradition, by Shaibya
Risal and Gaurab Bhattarai (rep 23/03/2024)
Empower
Community To Upgrade Schools, by Mukti Rijal
(rn 21/03/2024)
All
eyes on Sumana Shrestha over how she handles
school education bill : Shrestha had a radical
view of education reform and strongly opposed
the bill before she became the minister (kp
18/03/2024)
Textbooks
to reach students ahead of enrollment: Janak
Education Centre (kh 15/03/2024)
Ambukhaireni
teachers decide to enroll children in community
schools (kh 12/03/2024)
Revamped
public school buildings fail to halt student
exodus (kh 29/02/2024)
Public
schools remain closed; students going to India
for elementary education (kh 28/02/2024)
Manang
schools reopen classes amid snowfall, by
Yadu Prasad Bhatta (rn 26/02/2024)
Public
schools are turning empty in Karnali Province :
More than 30 percent of schools are struggling
with low enrolment. Poor teaching at the schools
is prompting parents to send wards to private
schools, by Jyotee Katuwal (kp 17/02/2024)
MeroSiksha
CFO Dhital wins Global Student Entrepreneur
Award Nepal (rep 08/02/2024)
Residential
facility helps improve academic performance of
Chepang children (kh 02/02/2024)
Disabled
students of a Baglung school face uncertain
future after grade 8 : Many students of Ramrekha
Basic School in Baglung may have to discontinue
education after passing grade 8 because there
are no other disabled-friendly schools nearby,
by Prakash Baral (kp 01/02/2024)
Schools
grapple with dwindling enrolment in CTEVT
diploma programmes : Experts call for setting up
a quality assurance mechanism to ensure quality
supervision and licensing for graduates of
diploma courses, by Binod Ghimire (kp
27/01/2024)
Students
to get textbooks before new academic session in
upcoming year too (kh 26/01/2024)
Schools
in Dhorpatan Valley shut down amid severe cold
weather (kh 24/01/2024)
Experts
stress adopting permeable educational system in
Nepal : The system prepares apprentices who have
received a first vocational diploma to go on to
higher education at a university of applied
sciences (kp 18/01/2024)
Student
unions one on converting private schools into
trusts : A bill registered in Parliament by the
Dahal government in September doesn’t make
conversion mandatory, by Binod Ghimire (kp
15/01/2024)
Over
100 community schools in Solukhumbu forced to
shut down due to severe cold (kh 13/01/2024)
Nourish
Dreams, Defeat Hunger, by Saroj Acharya (rn
12/01/2024)
“Students
with Chair” program introduced in Ilam’s Rong
Rural Municipality (kh 11/01/2024)
Education
in Shanghai: What can Nepal learn? Education
policies result in excellent learning only
through collaboration and commitment. The
Shanghai Project has some important learning for
Nepal to reform its education, by Baburam
Thapa and Dinesh Kumar Thapa (nlt 10/01/2024)
Birgunj
shuts down schools amidst severe cold; health
issues rise (kh 08/01/2024), Schools
closed with rising cold in Mahottari (kh
09/01/2024), Community
schools closed due to chilling cold (kh
10/01/2024)
School
education bill getting knottier : At the House
committee, representatives of local units and
teachers’ organisations make contradictory
demands, by Binod Ghimire (kp 05/01/2024)
Transformative
Funding For Education, by Manjima Dhakal (rn
05/01/2024)
Breaking
free of the tuition trap : Private tutoring
needlessly burdens young students. But
banning it is not an option, by Deepali
Shrestha (kp 31/12/2023)
Schools
in upper Mugu closed for a month amid
plummeting temperature (rep 28/12/2023)
Private
school ownership major contention in school
education bill : As most MPs want them to
become trusts, officials remind lawmakers of
constitutional space for private
institutions (kp 25/12/2023)
Quality
Education As Incubator Of Progress, by Dev
Raj Dahal (rn 23/12/2023)
Dealing
With Student Loans, by Dwaipayan Regmi (rn
14/12/2023)
Education
up to grade 12 will be made free: Minister
Basnet (rep 11/12/2023)
Asha
Special School and Rehabilitation Center: A
story of dedication, passion and philanthropy :
The school aims at ensuring access to education
for children and youth with intellectual
disabilities, inclusive education schools and
occupational training centers, by Dipendra
Kumar Pathak (nlt 08/12/2023)
Revisiting
education to safeguard national interest :
Citizens’ distrust in the state, eroding
self-respect and the plight of those working
abroad constitute security threats for Nepal,
by Usha Kiran (ae 08/12/2023)
Empowering
through Inclusive Education: United in Action
for Comprehensive Sexuality Education for
Persons with Disabilities, by Jaldeep
Sapkota (rep 03/12/2023)
Earthquake-hit
Salyan schools running classes out in the cold :
Schools still not priority for local authorities
as they are busy caring for displaced people,
by Biplab Maharjan (kp 23/11/2023)
Vested
Interests Penetrate Policies, by Mukti Rijal
(rn 09/11/2023)
Connecting
the Education System with the Labor Market Needs,
by Hari Prasad Shrestha (rep 06/10/2023)
Educational
Leadership: A Challenging Hope for Today!,
by Fr. Augustine Thomas, S.J. (rep 01/11/2023)
Listening
to students : Involving students in the feedback
process helps hold educators accountable for
their actions, by Bijaya Mani Paudel (kp
31/10/2023)
Autism
and educational barriers : Inclusionary efforts
across various sectors are necessary to support
individuals and children with autism, by
Sahara Dhakal (kp 19/10/2023)
Reimagining
Nepal's school education: For global relevance,
by Gita Subedi (ht 18/10/2023)
Karnali
targeting total literacy status in the current
fiscal year, by Bisna Prasad Neupane (ae
17/10/2023)
Need
for Native Language Education in Nepali Schools
, by Ritu Raj Lamsal (rep 15/10/2023)
Education
Bill attempts to shrink local levels power:
NARMIN (kh 13/10/2023)
Why
we need value-based education : A robust moral
foundation in early education helps combat
corruption in Nepal, by Pushpa Raj Joshi (kp
11/10/2023)
Private
schools and colleges: They also have a societal
mission, by Simone Galimberti (ht
11/10/2023)
Abolishment
of SEE raises concern over quality of school
education and university admission, by Ruby
Rauniyar (rep 11/10/2023)
Emboldened
anti-private sector narrative : This is mainly
the work of influential political parties,
particularly the Marxist variety, by Achyut
Wagle (kp 10/10/2023), The
Education Bill ignores the Constitution, by
Durga Prasad Khanal (rep 10/10/2023)
Looma
Technology Boon For Underprivileged Students,
by Kabindra Manandhar (rn 06/10/2023)
Sensible
education policy needed : Eight years
post-constitution, our education system still
lacks federalism-friendly practices, by Khim
Lal Devkota (kp 04/10/2023)
Rethinking
classroom design : While the West has seen
massive educational reforms, Nepal’s pedagogical
approach remains stagnant, by Yogesh
Dhungana (kp 03/10/2023)
Children
of Musahar communities drawn to school (kh
02/10/2023)
Big
Sisters from Baglung: A story of 60 women who
are contributing to education and awareness :
Big Sisters have orchestrated noticeable
transformations in 60 community schools. Their
remarkable efforts have garnered widespread
recognition and admiration, by Om Prakash
Ghimire (nlt 27/09/2023)
Anti-federal
moves in education : The outdated Education Act
1971 is still in force, albeit with dozens of
amendments, by Achyut Wagle (kp 26/09/2023),
Key
Provisions In School Education Bill, by
Uttam Maharjan (rn 26/09/2023)
In
remote Mugu, children walk four hours to school
: Parents say children return home tired. Their
Kalika Secondary School in Libru is ill-equipped
and understaffed with just 11 teachers for 300
students, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
25/09/2023)
Double
standard of political leadership on school
education is problematic, interview with
ducationist Bidya Nath Koirala, professor at
Tribhuvan University and a member of the High
Level National Education Commission on different
aspects of School Education bill (kp 25/09/2023)
Post-modern
Approach To Education, by Rabin Sharma (rn
24/09/2023)
Schools
can be a breeding ground for conflict :
Education is not merely about imparting
knowledge; it’s also about shaping attitudes,
fostering understanding and equipping
individuals with essential life skills, by
Rajendra Bahadur Singh (ae 19/09/2023)
School
education bill favours existing private schools
: The government registered the bill in the
federal parliament, removing some provisions
that school operators had contested earlier
(kp 14/09/2023), Mixed
bag : The new Education Bill still leaves space
for a tussle between the federal and local
governments (kp 15/09/2023), What’s
the controversy surrounding the new
education bill? The bill must be passed
by both chambers of Parliament before it
becomes law and replaces the Education
Act-1971, by Binod Ghimre (kp
17/09/2023), Employees’
Associations concerned about School
Education Bill (kh 18/09/2023)
Students
unable to learn about Nepal's new political map,
by Bhuwan Sharma (rep 14/09/2023)
Free
education, midday meal keeping students in
schools : Despite the constitution’s pledge,
government schools in Nepal fail to guarantee
free education, forcing students from poor
backgrounds to drop out, by Anish Tiwari (kp
13/09/2023)
Empower
SMCs To Improve Education, by Mukti Rijal
(rn 07/09/2023)
Education
for a better world, by Ganesh Prasad Baral
(ae 31/08/2023)
Private
schools respond to metropolis by relocating,
by Ruby Rauniyar (rep 29/08/2023)
Nepal
made rapid improvements in quality and
inclusiveness of education, says the World Bank
report : The report further says that School
Sector Development Program helped to reduce
out-of-school children number by 6.76 percent
nationwide during 2016-2022 (nlt 28/08/2023)
Coding,
drama courses start in Bhanu Secondary School :
The programmes are part of drives that KMC has
launched to reform public education (kp
27/08/2023)
NCE-Nepal
draws attention of chief whips on Education Bill
(kh 17/08/2023)
Public-Private
Tussle In Education, by Mukti Rijal (rn
17/08/2023)
Why
a hue and cry over Education Bill? Proposed
rules aside, politicians are unlikely to go
against interests of private schools that fund
them, say experts, by Binod Ghimire (kp
13/08/2023), Is
the proposed Education Bill really flawed? If
profit is only a central part of the equation in
running private schools, this is no more
acceptable. Private schools have to find new
ways to become more accessible and inclusive,
by Simone Galimberti (nlt 14/08/2023)
Dalit
students at a disadvantage in under-resourced
community schools : Most villages in Kaski are
emptying out due to outmigration with only
impoverished Dalits left behind. With no other
option, their children go to schools riddled
with problems, by Deepak Pariyar (kp
10/08/2023)
Innovation
In Education, by Dixya Poudel (rn
09/08/2023)
Ditch
the Education Bill : The government has
overstepped its rights by trying to revive the
abolished District Education Offices, by
Khim Lal Devkota (kp 09/08/2023), PABSON
and N-PABSON announce indefinite closure of
schools in protest of Education Bill (rep
09/08/2023)
Federal
bill proposes reviving the district education
offices : To stop commercialisation of school
education, the new legislation suggests
converting private schools into trusts, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 04/08/2023)
Regulating
private educational institutions to ensure the
right to education, by Karuna Parajuli and
Timothy Fish Hodgson (rep 03/08/2023)
Behind
the higher education crisis : Nepal has failed
to set its national development objectives in
the absence of a higher education policy, by
Achyut Wagle (kp 01/08/2023)
PM
calls for digital literacy to be included in
school curriculum (kh 21/07/2023)
School
Education Act is under consideration in Cabinet:
Minister Rai (kh 19/07/2023)
Multilingual
instruction mode in schools is better, report
says : Adoption of English as a medium of
instruction by schools has attracted more
students but it hasn’t improved the quality of
education (kp 14/07/2023)
15
schools in Birgunj Metropolis face music
(rep 13/07/2023)
SEE
results show improvement, by Ujjwal Satyal
(ht 07/07/2023)
What
ails Nepal’s education? Our education system has
been about rote learning, following the
instructions of educators, passing the exams,
getting excellent grades or negative labeling of
students, by Gaurav Ojha (nlt 05/07/2023)
Greening
schools to address climate crisis, by Riju
Dhakal (rep 01/07/2023)
More
boys are dropping out of schools than girls,
report shows : Nepal has made significant
progress in school enrolment. But the lower
retention rate remains a challenge (kp
30/06/2023)
Promoting
Nepal’s reading culture : The government should
establish well-equipped libraries and reading
corners in schools, colleges and public spaces,
by Pushpa Raj Joshi (kp 22/06/2023)
KMC’s
‘textbook-free Fridays’ drive makes students
happy : Guardians’ Federation and teachers say
it should be continued since skills and
education go hand in hand in giving students a
competitive edge (kp 22/06/2023)
KMC
forces private schools to provide scholarship to
students (ht 22/06/2023)
Inclusive
Education in Nepal: Challenges and Possible
Solutions, by Jalasa Sapkota (rep
20/06/2023)
School
Staff Council calls for community school closure
from tomorrow (kh 17/06/2023), KMC
Mayor Shah warns of suspending teachers, staff
involved in protests disrupting school
activities (rep 17/06/2023), Public
school staffers call off school closure : They
had threatened to close community schools across
the country indefinitely from Sunday to press
the government to address their demands (kp
19/06/2023)
KMC
abruptly stops Kantipur-HISSAN education fair :
The education department of the metropolitan
office has said the event had to be stopped
since it was organised before the publication of
the results of School Education Examinations and
grade 12 (kp 16/06/2023) [???], Kantipur-HISSAN
education fair gets go-ahead from court :
Allowing the resumption of the fair, the Patan
High Court also ordered the Kathmandu
Metropolitan City to return all confiscated
materials (kp 21/06/2023)
Awareness
campaigns by NGOs boosting attraction towards
community schools in Kalikot (rep
16/06/2023)
Dhankuta
community schools charge students despite free
education : Schools say the budget allocated by
the government is insufficient to pay teachers,
by Ramesh Chandra Adhikari (kp 15/06/2023)
Debel
School children studying sitting on the floor
(rn 11/06/2023)
Gandaki
govt introduces “earning by learning, learning
by earning program” (kh 07/06/2023)
Public
school staffers warn of protest over ‘broken
salary hike promise’ : Government on February 2
had signed an agreement with them to increase
their pay (kp 02/06/2023)
Community
schools in Pyuthan Municipality blame downgrades
and mergers for low enrolment : School
administrations are pulling out all stops to
bring their former students back and to
encourage new students to join, by Shamsher
Bikram GC (kp 31/05/2023)
Comprehensive
sexuality education in Nepal : It is a game
changer in reducing child marriage, gender-based
violence and teen pregnancy, by Won Young
Hong (kp 22/05/2023)
Karnali
shows meagre teaching-learning achievement
(kh 14/05/2023)
Mid-day
meal becoming effective in Dang schools (kh
13/05/2023)
Nepal’s
Educational System: From The Perspective Of A
Student, by Parmita Shrestha (sp 09/06/2023)
Principals
asked to run schools for 220 days (kh
09/05/2023), Pokhara
metropolis signs performance contract with
principals to enhance education quality of
community schools (rep 09/05/2023)
Computer
sets are gathering dust at Ramechhap community
schools : The government spent Rs13 million five
years ago on computers for 20 community schools
to run computer classes, by Tike R Pradhan
(kp 01/05/2023)
Monitor
School Fee Hike Strictly, by Madhav Prasad
Dahal (rn 27/04/2023)
KMC
directs political parties, sister organisations
not to organise programmes in schools (rn
27/04/2023)
‘Textbook-free
Friday’ initiative welcomed but also doubted :
Teachers at community schools voice fear the
plan may disrupt academic environment, by
Anup Ojha (kp 27/04/2023), Fridays
for fun : To make its "textbook-free Friday"
plan a success, the KMC should train teachers in
extracurricular activities (kp 28/04/2023)
Only
33 percent of students passed grade eight exams
in Dhangadhi this year : 4,533 students sat the
exams from both public and private schools in
the sub-metropolis, but only 1,533 passed,
by DR Pant (kp 24/04/2023)
NCE
Nepal demands 10 percent increment in education
budget (kh 23/04/2023)
Rich
school, poor school : The steady decline of
public school education portends a bleak future
for the ‘socialism-oriented’ country (kp
21/04/2023)
Mid-Day
meal program fruitful: Minister Sharma (kh
18/04/2023)
This
year students get textbooks on time, the first
case after 1990 (rn 17/04/2023)
Education
Ministry asks to run a student enrollment
campaign within May 30 (kh 17/04/2023)
People’s
representatives sending their kids to public
schools (kh 16/04/2023)
Nawalparasi
school restored after 23 years (rep
16/04/2023)
How
to Stop Corporal Punishment?, by Rajeeb
Shrestha (rep 10/04/2023)
Make
Literacy Campaign A Success : Scarcity of
textbooks in the rural and remote areas has
become a perennial problem, but the government
has not paid much heed to this matter connected
with the future of students, by Uttam
Maharjan (rn 04/04/2023)
Hillary’s
community school shows the way : Khumjung
Secondary School in one of Solukhumbu’s remotest
villages conducts classes in English language,
by Bhanubhakta Niraula (kp 23/03/2023)
Morale
of education officers in local governments: How
it impacts schools, by Deependra Bickram
Thapa (ht 15/03/2023)
Nepal
misses inclusive education targets, by
Mamata Thapa (ae 14/03/2023)
School
Education Needs Urgent Reforms, by Govinda
Bahadur Tumbahang (rn 10/03/2023)
Many
Achham parents favour boys over girls for
schooling : Parents don’t put much effort into
educating their daughters since they think that
girls will someday leave them and go with their
husbands, by Menuka Dhungana (kp 08/03/2023)
Musahar
children in Saptari village are still deprived
of education : Lack of government identity cards
and deprivation are forcing Musahar parents to
keep their children away from schools, by
Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp 02/03/2023)
oliticians
Ought To Prioritise Education, by Namrata
Sharma (rn 01/03/2023)
Ensure
Fundamental Right to Education in Mother Tongue,
by Randhir Chaudhary (rep 21/02/2023)
Ensure
Quality Education For All, by Bhupa
P Dhamala (rn 08/02/2023), Quality
Education Key To Development, by Yug
Bahadur (rn 10/02/2023)
Education
Ministry urges to opt for digital technology for
education (kh 30/01/2023)
End
Corporal Punishment In Schools, by Bijaya
Karki (rn 26/01/2023)
If
children with disabilities aren’t educated, they
won’t be able to participate in society : ‘When
we work in inclusive education we have to target
the government, the children, the teachers and
also the communities’, interview with
Pauline Nadim Ducos, Regional Director, Humanity
& Inclusion (nlt 24/01/2023)
Tackle
Textbook Shortage Effectively, by Uttam
Maharjan (rn 24/01/2023)
Students
of Hulakdanda see no recourse but to quit
studies after Grade 8 : The closest secondary
school from Manthali Municipality Ward 6 is at
least three hours walk and daily commute is
impossible, students say, by Tika Prasad
Bhatta (kp 21/01/2023)
Nepal
fails yet again to achieve total literacy target
: The Pushpa Kamal Dahal government has renewed
the pledge to attain total literacy—by the
fiscal year 2023-2024, by Binod Ghimire (kp
14/01/2023)
Rule
requiring interest groups to seek approval to
enter schools welcomed : The Kathmandu
Metropolis introduced the rule amid complaints
by many schools of unwanted interference, by
Anup Ojha (kp 10/01/2023)
School
Education In Shambles, by Mukti Rijal (rn
05/01/2023)
Marginalized
communities’ children in Siraha excited for
school (kh 04/01/2023)
Traditional
knowledge, modern education : We need to
document the rich home-grown knowledge system
and save it for posterity, by Roshee
Lamichhane (kp 25/12/2022)
Financial
literacy level still low: NRB survey : NRB
survey shows the country’s financial literacy
score at 57.9 percent (ae 23/12/2022)
Make
Education Actually Free (rep 23/12/2022)
Let
Them Get Education, by Bini Dahal (rn
23/12/2022)
Our
education system needs a revision, interview
with Rajendra KC (ae 20/12/2022)
Karnali
students affected by lack of disabled-friendly
infrastructure : Girl students with disabilities
miss five days of classes during menstruation
for a lack of proper infrastructure in several
of the region’s schools, by Jyotee Katuwal
(kp 20/12/2022)
School
DI’s ‘insensitive’ behavior incites a minor girl
to take her own life, by Sara Pahari (rep
16/12/2022)
Midday
meal scheme fails to dissuade Ramechhap students
from junk food : Most community schools have
been providing lunch money to students instead
of healthy food, by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp
12/12/2022)
Physical
infrastructures, labs being constructed in 143
schools in Baglung (kh 10/12/2022)
Need
To Reorient Education System, by Uttam
Maharjan (rn 06/12/2022)
A
lone teacher for a single student in Parbat
(kh 06/12/2022)
International
Volunteer Day: Turning schools into volunteering
hubs : With the right guidance, teachers can
support students in experiencing volunteerism,
helping them to realize and fully comprehend the
impact of their actions, by Sushil Adhikari,
Subhasan Bhattarai and Simone Galimberti
(nlt 05/12/2022)
Disaster-prone
schools put students’ lives at risk : Around 122
schools in Bajhang are at high risk of natural
disasters. More than 24,400 children study
there, according to the district office, by
Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 23/11/2022) [Neglect of far western Nepal
continues thanks to centrist political leaders!]
Ways
To Upgrade Public Schools, by Babu Lama (rn
21/11/2022)
Holiday
from Nov 18 to 21 in schools being used as
polling stations (rep 15/11/2022)
Classes
began 7 months ago but students have no books :
Local authorities are actively involved in
preparing school compounds for upcoming
elections but have done nothing substantial to
supply textbooks, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
09/11/2022) [Complete
disinterest of the central and provincial male
elite in fulfilling their actual tasks!]
KMC
to conduct traffic awareness programs in public
schools (rep 08/11/2022)
Educating
linguistic minority children : Nepal’s
educational development is impacted mainly by a
lack of opportunities for multilingual education,
by Puskar Joshi (kp 06/11/2022)
Parallels
of contrasts: Education in Finland and Nepal :
Nepal's public school system has some features
similar to that of the Finnish education system.
How did Finland become the envy of the world in
education? Why is Nepal's public education still
a tale of woe?, by Mahabir Paudyal (nlt
06/11/2022)
School
transport concern resurfaces after boy’s death :
Guardians complain schools in the Valley are not
enforcing rules to guarantee the safety of
students on board, by Anup Ojha (kp
04/11/2022)
Children
in northern Darchula deprived of mid-day meal :
Scores of students have been left without the
government-provided mid-day meal as landslides
and floods disrupt food supply from the district
headquarters, by Manoj Badu (kp 11/10/2022)
NRNA
to provide scholarships to 5,000 students,
by Chiran Sharma (rep 04/10/2022)
Education
Ministry unveils “Education Vision Paper 2079”
(kh 21/09/2022)
Education
Pattern In Need Of Change, by Anish Ghimire
(rn 17/09/2022)
Call
for more funds to education sector (kh
16/09/2022)
Where
has Education Act obstructed educational
reforms?, by Dinesh Luitel (kh 15/09/2022)
Education
in Madhes (ht 14/09/2022)
Beyond
grand promises : Only by making quality
education an easily attainable fundamental right
can we dream of a better tomorrow (kp
14/09/2022)
Teacher
thrashes student for being absent (ht
14/09/2022)
Education
System In Need Of Reforms, by Bini Dahal (rn
09/09/2022)
Day
Meal Programme keeping students at schools
(rn 08/09/2022)
Turning
the focus on students : Education is not only to
obtain a certificate or degree, but also to know
society, by Tulasi Acharya (kp 05/09/2022)
A
Tibetan refugee leads a Mustang village towards
accessible education : Tenzin Chomphel first
came to the village of Ghiling in upper Mustang
in 1959. Little did he know then that decades
later, his life’s work would be to see the
village prosper, by Marissa Taylor (kp
03/09/2022)
Shortage
of textbooks affects studies in Far-west hill
districts : Students, teachers left in the lurch
while authorities concerned appear indifferent,
by Menuka Dhungana and Tripti Shahi (kp
30/08/2022)
School
education is free but public schools are forced
to raise fee : Politicians themselves admit
party leaders are unwilling to give due
attention to public schools because many leaders
have invested in private academic institutions,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 28/08/2022) [An aspect of corruption!]
School
education boosts self-confidence of adult women
(kh 24/08/2022)
Lack
of textbooks affects studies in Parbat : Three
months into the academic session, authorities’
failure to provide books leaves students,
teachers in the lurch, by Agandhar Tiwari
(kp 22/08/2022)
Investing
in period positive schools : Schools need to
build changing facilities with hand washing
stations and disposal bins, by Mohit
Rauniyar (kp 21/08/2022)
Mid-day
meal budget misused in Kalikot : Government
schools in the district say they are spending
the meal money to pay salaries to
privately-hired teachers, by Tularam Pandey
(kp 19/08/2022)
Seven
years since constitution promulgation local
governments await federal education Act : The
federal government has yet to ready a bill for
the law and the term of the current Parliament
is ending in four months with elections
announced for November 20, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 19/08/2022) [Another
grave failure of the Oli and Deuba governments
which shows the continuing centralisitic
mindset!]
Education
Turns Into Lucrative Business, by Binaya
Ghimire (rn 16/08/2022)
Karnali
still short of 60,000 textbooks (rep
11/08/2022)
Quality
education : Through public-private partnerships,
by Samrat Dhungana (ht 05/08/2022)
Decentralising
School Education, by Mukti Rijal (rn
04/08/2022)
Lawmakers
demand quality in education sector (rep
29/07/2022)
The
Boy and the Boar : How an accident of fate made
a Musahar community start educating its children,
by Philip Holmes (nt 29/07/2022)
Class
differences : Instead of leveling the playing
field, a flawed education system is entrenching
social inequity in Nepal (nt
29/07/2022)
Educationists
bat for reforms in Nepal’s education system
(rep 24/07/2022), Reshaping
education : The critical issue is for the
authorities to improve the overall quality of
education (kp 28/07/2022)
Midday
meal scheme in corruption controversy in Madhes
districts : Hundreds of students in Sarlahi and
Rauthat have been deprived of their meals owing
to alleged misuse of funds, by Om Prakash
Thakur and Shiva Puri (kp 22/07/2022)
The
allure of English among Nepali parents : We are
dismissive of local languages that are easily
accessible to us and that restricts our
cognitive development, communication skills, as
well as acceptance of different heritages,
by Cilla Khatry (ae 21/07/2022)
Pitfalls
of private education : Educators have not been
able to keep up with the changing mindset of
their students, by Roshee Lanichhane (kp
21/07/2022)
Education
sector makes modest achievements in one year
under Deuba-led govt (rep 16/07/2022)
Sudurpaschim
Province hit hard by textbook crunch (ht
08/07/2022)
KMC
increases education spending three-fold (kh
04/07/2022)
Daughter
education insurance scheme resumes in Madhes
Province (kh 04/07/2022)
Free
education for unaccompanied children (kh
02/07/2022)
Hamro
Patro launches an E-learning platform (kh
30/06/2022)
Official
raises some hackles by saying local units are
unfit to handle school education : During
grilling by a parliamentary panel over delay in
federal education bill, the education secretary
said local units don’t have capability and
expertise to ensure quality of education, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 30/06/2022), Time
to let go : Local governments should be
empowered enough to shoulder the responsibility
of education (kp 01/07/2022)
Bagmati
government allocates Rs 550 million to equip
community schools with IT (kh 22/06/2022)
'Prevent
shortage of school textbooks' (ht
22/06/2022), Textbook
shortage : Textbooks could be to rented out to
the students instead of distributing them for
free every year (ht 23/06/2022)
School
students struggle with the change of medium of
instruction : A new government directive to
teach ‘Social Studies’ in the Nepali language is
giving a hard time to both students and teachers,
by Rajani Shrestha (kp 18/06/2022)
Late
as usual : Delayed delivery of textbooks
infringes the right to education of Nepali
students, by Karuna Parajuli and Timothy
Fish Hodgson (kp 12/06/2022), Local
election, delay in material supply for
printing to blame for delay in providing
textbooks to students: Minister Paudel
(rep 14/06/2022) [However, this does not justify the
regular deferral of remote areas in
particular!], There
is always an excuse : Fertiliser
shortages have been a perennial problem
with the authorities always finding
ad-hoc measures (kp 15/06/2022), Textbooks
yet to reach Baitadi (rep) [Is this also due to the
elections held five weeks ago? One has never
heard of similar problems in the urban centres,
especially in the KTM Valley!]
Nepal's
education needs drastic change - UGC chair
Subedi (rn 12/06/2022)
NFD-N
calls guaranteeing education opportunity to
disabled children (kh 09/06/2022)
The
lockdown aftereffect : The impact of virtual
learning and its repercussions on pupils are
only now emerging (kp 09/06/2022)
Summer
heat prompts school closure (kh 08/06/2022)
Education
minister stresses need for reorienting education
system (rep 07/06/2022)
Weeks
into new session, Bajura schools facing shortage
of textbooks : As per an estimate, 2.4 million
textbooks are required in Sudurpaschim this year
(ht 07/06/2022) [????]
ADB
projects Nepal’s GDP to fall by 4.97 percent in
2030 due to school closures : “Severe
disruptions in school education during the
pandemic has impacted children through their
formative years which will affect their
employment opportunities and earning potential
for many years.” (nlt 03/06/2022) [see
ADB
report], Suspension
of in-person classes takes a heavy toll on
pupils’ performance : Study shows 50 percent of
guardians reported a decline in academic
performance of their wards since the lockdown,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 06/06/2022)
Delay
in supply of textbooks affects coursework : The
new academic year in many mountain districts
kicked off over 10 days ago but the lack of
textbooks has rendered lessons ineffective,
teachers say, by Krishna Prasad Gautam (kp
29/05/2022), Indifference
to education : Successive governments have
failed to address the concern related to the
supply of textbooks (kp 06/06/2022)
Govt.
asked to withdraw decision to give two-day
holiday in education sector (kh 23/05/2022)
Students
in Rolpa apply theoretical knowledge in farming
: Schools in Rolpa run agricultural courses that
help students understand agricultural practices
and gain technical know-how to generate better
yield in fields, by Kashiram Dangi (kp
23/05/2022)
Educational
institution in remote Taplejung village draws
students from distant places : Students can get
free quality eduction upto grade 12 at Sinam
Secondary School in Sirijanga Rural Municipality,
by Ananda Gautam (kp 19/05/2022)
Schools
to have two-day weekend, full school hours on
Friday (kh 12/05/2022), Education
ministry directs educational institutions to
implement two-day weekend, by Ruby Rauniyar
(rep 13/05/2022)
Election
hits school enrolment campaign : School
enrolment campaign has not been able to make
much headway since most people are either out
participating in political rallies or listening
to the political campaigners, say educators,
by Samjhana Rasaili (kp 07/05/2022)
Collaborative
lesson plans : When parents participated in
virtual class with their children, learning
became more fun, by Ganesh Bahadur Singh
& Yogendra Man Bijukchhen (kp 04/05/2022)
School
question papers prepared by local governments
are full of errors : Experts hold the federal
government equally responsible, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 01/05/2022)
Chandrapur
adopts door-to-door campaign to make Dalit
children attend school : The Education Unit of
Chandrapur Municipality says that every possible
step would be taken to help parents send their
wards to school, by Shiva Puri (kp
30/04/2022)
Education
incentive: Scholarships for daughters-in-law :
In Makawanpur, Raksirang Rural Municipality has
rolled out a scholarship scheme for
daughters-in-law to uplift the socio-economic
status of the local residents, by Aakriti
Ghimire (kp 20/04/2022)
Right
Pedagogy of Teaching Economics, by Richan
Shrestha (kh 20/04/2022)
NCE
Nepal offers 18-point recommendation to parties
for manifesto (rep 17/04/2022)
Education
System In Need Of Change, by Tulasi Acharya
(rn 11/04/2022)
Community
school hostel boon for Chepang children : Many
students in outlying Dhading villages had to
quit studies owing to difficulties in attending
classes given the long distances they had to
walk every day, by Sarita Shrestha (kp
09/04/2022)
Growing
appetite for school lunches : But can the Nepal
Government that has rolled out meals for
students in 71 districts meet expectations?,
by Marty Logan (nt 08/04/2022)
Reinvigorating
Literacy Campaigns, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
05/04/2022)
Implement
Local School Curriculum, by Niraj Lawoju (rn
31/03/2022)
Learning
& Earning Should Go Side By Side, by
Namrata Sharma (rn 23/03/2022)
Government’s
action necessary to strengthen public education,
say experts : Six years since the promulgation
of the Constitution, successive governments
haven’t even prepared a bill for a Federal
Education Act, which is crucial for improving
school education (kp 22/03/2022)
Rural
Municipality provides audio books to community
schools (kh 22/03/2022)
Quake-damaged
schools finally rebuilt in Baglung local unit :
Half a dozen schools had been conducting classes
out in the open since the earthquakes damaged
their buildings. Absenteeism and dropout rate
increased after the 2015 earthquakes, by
Prakash Baral (kp 20/03/2022)
Students
Yet To Overcome Pandemic Distractions, by
Manjima Dhakal (rn 19/03/2022)
Right
to education for children with disabilities:
It's the government's responsibility, by Dev
Datta Joshi (ht 17/03/2022)
Noise
pollution affecting children in Palpa schools :
Constant movement of heavy vehicles carrying
limestones through school areas causes distress
and anxiety among students, teachers and parents,
by Madhab Aryal (kp 12/03/2022)
Linguistically
limited : A year on, Kathmandu Metropolitan
City’s mandatory Nepal Bhasa educational policy
is not sitting well with students, teachers, or
schools, by Marissa Taylor (rec 10/03/2022),
Inclusion
in teaching, inclusion in learning, by
Karl-Heinz Krämer (rec 14/03/2022)
Need
for Personal Leadership in Education Sector,
by Simone Galimberti (rep 10/03/2022)
Emotional
intelligence: To manage stress in education,
by Pushpa Priya (ht 28/02/2022)
Minister
Poudel stresses on increasing education budget
(kh 25/02/2022)
New
academic session from mid April: Education
Minister (kh 18/02/2022)
4,157
Community Schools Selected For President's
Reform Programme (rn 16/02/2022), 32
schools in Lamjung selected for PERP (rep
17/02/2022)
New
academic session to begin after local polls
(kh 15/02/2022)
Post-Pandemic
Education Methods, by Binaya Ghimire (rn
13/02/2022)
Thami
children deprived of education : Many girls and
boys from the Thami community in Doramba
Shailung and Khadadevi rural municipalities
district marry in their early teens, by
Santosh Dhungel (ae 10/03/2022)
Ignoring
experts, many Kathmandu schools resume in-person
classes : Doctors say children can infect
elderly relatives. On Tuesday alone, 29 children
under the age of 10 were reported infected,
according to the Health Ministry, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 10/02/2022)
Bhote
children deprived of education (ht
10/02/2022)
School
students’ achievement has plunged under virtual
learning : Experts point to two reasons. First,
most students don’t have access to virtual
learning platforms. Second, teaching learning
has not been effective, by Binod Ghimire (kp
06/02/2022), Virtual
learning : It is a tough task for the
authorities to provide a risk-free and secure
environment (kp 07/02/2022)
Girls
in Pipalgaun deprived of education : There are
more than 30 girls of school-going age in
Pipalgaun, a Dalit settlement in Achham, and
none of them goes to school as the parents want
them at home to help run the household, by
Menuka Dhungana (kp 31/01/2022)
Online
classes are no more new now. What can be done to
make them further effective? Online classes are
not going to stop anytime soon and there’s no
alternative to making them more effective. If
not, it will greatly affect the entire education
system, experts say, by Prasun Sangroula
(nlt 30/01/2022)
CM
Shahi for issuance of federal education act
(kh 25/01/2022)
New
school reform plan set for rollout despite two
previous flops : A 10-year Rs953.43b Education
Sector Plan will come into action in July,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 20/01/2022)
Schools
to reopen from Jan 30 to Feb 3 for vaccinating
students (kh 19/01/2022)
Children’s
literature for social change : To inculcate a
reading habit among children and make them aware
of their social environs, several Nepal-based
organisations have focused on publishing
children’s books that tell stories of the
country’s diverse social realities, by Pinki
Sris Rana (kp 18/01/2022)
Govt
attention drawn to solve problems faced by
education sector (kh 11/01/2022)
CCMCC
decides to close schools till Jan 29 in view of
surging COVID-19 cases : Vaccination card made
mandatory at public places, including airports
(kh 09/01/2022), Education
Ministry decides to close schools until Jan 29
(kh 10/01/2022), Schools
across Nepal shut until January 29 amid virus
threat : Education Ministry asks schools to
facilitate academic learning in line with the
directives issued earlier (kp 10/01/2022)
Bharatpur
metropolis makes tangible results in educational
reforms ( kh 06/01/2022)
School
shut in Banke as mercury dips (kh
06/01/2022)
Local
levels closing schools following increase in
cold (rep 02/01/2022), Schools
closed to escape cold wave (kh 03/01/2022)
Government
doing little to assuage stress of parents and
students : Several schools across the country
have recorded Covid-19 cases after they resumed
in-person classes. But no measures have been
taken to curb the spread of the coronavirus,
by Anup Ojha (kp 01/01/2022)
Poverty
keeps children in Mugu out of school : Around 60
percent of children in Sayakhola, Kotilla and
Mundu of Chhayanathrara Municipality are out of
the school system, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
27/12/2021)
Snowfall
In Manang Leads To School Closure (rn
27/12/2021)
Retaining
students in schools : The myopic view of
prioritising economic relief comes at the cost
of increasing dropouts (kp 22/12/2021)
Mid-day
meal programme ineffective in Myagdi : Community
schools in the district are distributing cash to
the guardians instead of preparing mid-day meals,
by Ghanshyam Khadka (kp 21/12/2021)
Pandemic
worsens disparities in young children’s
development and learning in Nepal: UNICEF. “The
pandemic has especially affected the health,
learning and psychosocial well-being of the
children” (nlt 20/12/2021) [see press
release by UNIC EF as well as Child
and Family Tracker (presentation)], Pandemic
worsens disparities in children’s development
and learning : According to a UNICEF survey, the
early childhood development of one out of five
children between the ages of 2 and 4 years in
Nepal is not on track amidst the Covid-19
pandemic (kp 21/12/2021), Worry
about ECE : These learning losses among the
disadvantaged children at an early age could
lead to more inequality in the future (ht
23/12/2021)
Menstrual
health is everybody’s business Menstrual
education in Nepal is woefully inadequate and,
at times, actively harmful, posing risks to
health while reinforcing existing stereotypes
and stigmas, by Nishi Rungta (rec
14/12/2021)
Educational
exclusion riles disabled persons, NFDN demands
correction (kh 14/12/2021)
Schoolchildren
in Darchula local unit yet to get textbooks :
The current academic session started six months
ago but the supplier failed to deliver books to
23 community schools in Apihimal Rural
Municipality, by Manoj Badu (kp 12/12/2021)
Need
of educational shift in Nepal: Are we willing to
change?, by Janak BC (ht 10/12/2021)
Madrasa
education to be included in govt curriculum
(kh 07/12/2021)
President
Bhandari calls to include Buddhist philosophy,
Buddha’s messages in curriculum (kh
02/12/2021)
Creating
An Inclusive School, by Shak Bahadur
Budhathoki (rn 20/11/2021)
Dispute
among people’s representatives deprives students
of textbooks : Chhinnamasta Rural Municipality
in Saptari has not yet released the budget for
the education sector, by Abdhesh Kumar Jha
(kp 16/11/2021) [Such
irresponsible politicians should not be called
"representatives of the people"!]
The
scars of corporal punishment : School teachers
inflicting physical and psychological abuse on
students is rampant in Nepal, reflecting the
sorry state of education in the country, by
Swikriti Kattel (rec 14/11/2021)
Reverting
to physical classrooms : In a survey conducted
for this article, a majority of students opted
for the hybrid mode, by Roshee Lamichhane
(kp 14/11/2021)
Why
do most politicians send their offspring abroad
for education?, by Prasun Sangroula (nlt
11/11/2021)
Day
Meal Programme Draws More Students To Banke
Schools (rn 10/11/2021)
Sex
education in Nepal: Why it is an urgent need,
by Amar Bahadur Sherma (ht 10/11/2021)
Act
on education : Successive governments have
pledged to pass a Federal Education Act, but it
has not happened (kp 09/11/2021)
As
schools are reopening, calls for assessment of
learning outcomes : Stakeholders say there has
to be some programme in place to ensure
that students are promoted only after they
learn what their curricula prescribe, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 09/11/2021)
School
enrolment down with decline in population growth,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 08/11/2021)
All
schools set to resume; health protocols
mandatory (kh 08/11/2021)
Federal
education act remains an unfulfilled promise :
In the absence of the law, local governments
have not been able to manage school-level
education in their jurisdictions, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 05/11/2021)
33
schools in Doti closed for an indefinite period
for salary issues (kh 31/10/2021)
The
Education Cluster During COVID-19, by Shak
Bahadur Budhathoki (rn 30/10/2021)
Govt
set to launch environment protection programme
in schools (rn 30/10/2021)
4.5
million girls at risk of not finishing school
due to pandemicA UN report says with children
remaining out of school, the risk of child
labour, gender-based violence, early and forced
marriage, and early pregnancy may increase,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 13/10/2021)
Children
with disabilities out of school in Karnali : For
a lack of special classes, trained teachers and
supporting physical infrastructure, disabled
children in the province are deprived of basic
education, by Jyotee Katuwal (kp 10/10/2021)
Gandaki
to be declared as literate province (kh
09/10/2021)
Viral
on social media, this photo speaks volumes about
development in rural Nepal (rep 04/10/2021)
Lack
of textbooks affects studies in mountain region
: Schools in Mugu and Humla have not received
textbooks due to disruption of roads, by Raj
Bahadur Shahi and Chhapal Lama (kp 01/10/2021)
Reshaping
education in Nepal : Ensuring that children from
deprived and vulnerable backgrounds are able not
only to study but also to thrive in the
classroom is a challenge that Nepal must win,
by Simone Galimberti (nlt 30/09/2021)
Two
local levels in Lamjung implement local
curriculum (kh 28/09/2021)
Schools
to run classes in person amid COVID-19 fear and
uncertainty (kh 26/09/2021)
Musahar
children can’t enrol in schools for lack of
birth certificates : Child marriage, which is
illegal in Nepal, is still common in the
community leading to unregistered births of
children from underage marriages, by Bharat
Jargha Magar (kp 25/09/2021) [Every
child living in Nepal has a right to unhindered
school attendance! What does this have to do
with birth documents denied out of narrow-minded
and partly patriarchal ways of thinking?]
School
Education In Disarray, by Mukti Rijal (rn
23/09/2021)
Open
or not to open: School administrators in
Hamletian dilemma in Valley (kh 17/09/2021)
Barriers
to inclusive education : In Nepal, the right to
quality, inclusive education is still a
pipedream for girls with disabilities,
especially in remote rural areas, by Dev
Datta Joshi (kp 17/09/2021)
Two
schools of thought : Reopen in-person schools
only after holidays, with full precautions in
place (nt 17/09/2021)
Darchula
school running its classes from tents after last
year’s floods and landslides : Around 124
students of Samaiji Basic School have been
affected as they do not have proper classrooms,
by Manoj Badu (kp 17/09/2021)
Class
divide: Night and morning school students
disproportionately disconnected : Online classes
have robbed night and morning school
students of the quality education they
desperately want, by Shranup Tandukar (kp
15/09/2021)
Achieving
Literacy Goal, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
14/09/2021)
‘Example
of compulsory and free education act is enough
to know status of law implementation’ (kh
13/09/2021)
Kathmandu
schools are reopening next week but many parents
and experts are worried : Most private schools
in the Capital are being run in rented buildings
with small rooms and little open space. Imposing
health protocol and maintaining distance is thus
difficult, by Anup Ojha (kp 12/09/2021)
Schools
Resume Classes In Bajura, Sarlahi (rn
11/09/2021)
Waling
Municipality signs MoU with British Council to
improve the quality of education (kh
11/09/2021)
Schools
of the Air : Nepal and Australia deliver
education by radio for students learning under
Covid-19, by Felicity Volk (nt 10/09/2021)
Re-opening
schools : The authorities, it seems, have come
under increasing pressure to take the plunge
(kp 10/09/2021)
Large
number of children deprived of virtual learning,
UNICEF survey shows : For 63 percent of
children, textbooks are the only source of
information. The survey was carried out among
6,643 children and guardians across the
seven provinces, by Binod Ghimire (kp
08/09/2021)
Government
comes up with homeschooling concept as academic
year nears half way, by Binod Ghimire (kp
06/09/2021) [Such an
idea can only come from financially better-off
people who have never left their infrastructural
urban environment!]
Schools
in Gorkha Municipality to operate from Sept 13
(kh 06/09/2021
Schools
in Doti resuming physical classes from today
(rep 05/09/2021)
Schools
to open in Rajbiraj from Sunday (kh
04/09/2021)
Nepal's
first autism special school in Chitwan district
(ht 04/09/2021)
Valley
authorities allow conditional reopening of
schools : Local governments can allow schools to
run in-person classes by following health
protocols, by Anup Ojha (kp 02/09/2021), Kathmandu
should not rush to reopen schools as children
are at risk, experts say : City is reportedly
preparing to reopen schools next week.
Stakeholders suspect the decision is guided by
vested interests, by Anup Ojha (kp
03/09/2021), Kathmandu
Schools Not To Resume In-Person Classes Soon,
by Manjima Dhakal (rn 05/09/2021), Kathmandu
schools to open from September 17 (kh
06/09/2021)
Education
Ministry comes up with action plan for operation
of schools and colleges : Schools categorized as
yellow and green zone to remain open, by
Milan Dahal (kh 01/09/2021)
Eight
local levels in Kathmandu implement local
curriculum (rep 01/09/2021), Three
out of 11 local levels of Kathmandu yet to
implement local curriculum (kh 01/09/2021)
Public
school students faring poorly compared to
private schoolgoers : Students from Province 1
and Bagmati, Gandaki and Lumbini have fared
better in four main subjects (kp 21/08/2021)
Need
To Improve Learning Outcome, by Shak Bahadur
Budhathoki (rn 21/08/2021)
Community
schools in Kalikot resume classes amid pandemic
(ht 20/08/2021)
Schools
reopen in municipalities with zero cases of
infection (rep 15/08/2021) [related to
Baitadi (rep 15/08/2021)
School
textbooks yet to reach remote Karnali districts
: High airfare and disruption of road networks
have delayed the transportation of textbooks,
by Chhapal Lama (kp 06/08/2021)
School
scholarship funds go unspent while students drop
out due to poverty : Hardly Rs150 million was
distributed to the target student groups in the
previous fiscal year leaving around Rs700
million unspent, by Binod Ghimire (kp
03/08/2021)
Tanahu
DAO directs schools to suspend physical classes
(rep 03/08/2021)
Schools
told to stop in-person classes (ht
03/08/2021) [related to Dhading]
Making
online education effective : The government
needs to allocate more funds to support online
teaching-learning, by Roshee Lamichhane (kp
15/07/2021)
Inclusive
education for the blind : It is their right,
by Dev Datta Joshi (ht 15/07/2021)
Neglected
by the state, broken by the pandemic, by
Marissa Taylor (rec 13/07/2021)
Lottery
to attend public schools: NSEP should aim for
this, by Simone Galimberti (ht 13/07/2021)
COVID-19
Leaves Children In Dilemma, by Balmukunda
Regmi (rn 13/07/2021)
Lack
of internet affects Humla students, by
Chhapal Lama (kp 13/07/2021)
Memorisation
and understanding: Both necessary in pedagogy,
by Dronashish Neupane (ht 09/07/2021)
Nepal’s
class divide widens : Online classes
expose gaps between schools, but make some
students more tech savvy (nt 09/7/2021)
Lessons
not learned from the pandemic : Nepal has
squandered another opportunity to fix a
defective education system, by Dhurba Basnet
(nt 09/07/2021)
New
School Education Plan : Looking from bottom,
by Hari Prasad Lamsal (ht 05/07/2021)
Manang
students deprived of education as schools
affected heavily by continuous floods (rep
26/06/2021)
Admission
campaigns begin in Karnali schools, by
Chandani Kathayat (kp 22/06/2021)
When
should schools fully re-open physically?, by
Ravi Chaudfhary (kh 20/06/2021)
KMC
to implement ‘One Ward, One Model School’
program (kh 18/06/2021)
New
academic session begins from today (kh
15/06/2021)
Government
plan to introduce new school curricula suffers
setbacks : Schools and teachers say the
government should postpone the plan
considering the pandemic, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 13/06/2021)
Pandemic
and shutdowns leave students without succour,
by Prasanna Pandey (ht 13/06/2021)
Minister
directs to withdraw textbooks containing
country’s old map (kh 09/06/2021)
Schools
to open in Birgunj from June 15 (kh
05/06/2021)
Online
classes, no extracurriculars, but full fees :
Many schools across the country have been
charging full fees despite providing no extra
facilities, by Aishwarya Baidar (Record,
04/06/2021)
School
dropout remains a challenge, survey report shows
: Poverty, parents’ illiteracy and lack of
learning environment are major reasons behind
high dropout rates, education experts say,
by Binod Ghimire (kp) [see report
by Ministry of Finance in Nepali], Online
classes a far cry for many students (ht
30/05/2021)
Uncertainty
reigns over education sector with no signs of
the pandemic ending soon : Nationwide grade 10
examinations had been scheduled to begin on
Thursday but authorities don’t even know
about the new assessment modality, by Binod
Ghimire (26/05/2021)
Education
for Sustainable Development: The right bet for
Nepal, by Simone Galimberti (ht 25/05/2021)
Online
Education amid COVID-19: An assessment, by
Shankar Man Singh (rep 22/05/2021)
Minister
Shrestha is ignoring most pressing issues facing
education sector, experts say : While schools
remain closed and key exams have become
uncertain due to the pandemic, the education
minister hasn’t announced any measures to
address the problem, by Binod Ghimire (kp
18/05/2021) [That alone
qualifies him to be a minister in the Oli
government!]
Pandemic
further pushes already 14-month longacademic
session School board exams and MBBS entrance
tests uncertain, by Binod Ghimire (kp
12/05/2021)
Transform
your school programme: Initiative for
quake-affected schools, by Simone Galimberti
(ht 10/05/2021)
Online
Education: A Hobson’s Choice, by Umesh Raj
Regmi (rn 07/05/2021)
Second
wave of corona : Quality education compromised,
by Jiba Raj Pokharel (ht 04/05/2021)
Public
schools focus on construction while virtual
learning suffers : Most schools are using funds
on classrooms and toilets construction, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 30/04/2021)
School
closure gives parents a sigh of relief : Some
are worried about how to strike balance between
work and childcare, by Bijay Laxmi Duwal (ht
24/04/2021)
Billions
spent on Dharahara but school reconstruction
suffering in lack of funds : Reconstruction of
college buildings damaged in the 2015
earthquakes is yet to begin as the government
only recently decided to take Indian loan
despite stringent conditions, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 23/04/2021)
Online
classes for some : The pandemic has exposed yet
another harsh reality—the digital divide
(kp 21/04/2021)
Govt
decides to close schools and colleges of city
area with high risk of COVID-19 transmission
(rep 19/04/2021), Cabinet
decides to close schools in urban areas (kh
19/04/2021), Govt
to impose stricter restrictions on crowded
places (kh 19/042021)
National
Human Rights Commission says schoolchildren at
risk of virus infections : The rights watchdog
calls upon heath and education ministries not to
disseminate contradictory statements and urges
the government to uphold the children’s right to
health and life (kp 18/04/2021)
Three
local levels in Solukhumbu announced fully
literate (kh 17/04/2021)
To
open, or not to open : Contradicting messages
from government about running schools amid
the coronavirus scare confuse guardians, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 17/04/2021)
Schools
with high number of students urged to run
classes in shifts (rep 16/04/2021)
Health
Ministry urges not to attend schools in COVID-19
affected districts, including Kathmandu (kh
15/04/2021), Educational
institutions inside Nepalgunj sub-metropolis to
be closed for a week (kh 15/04/2021)
No
permanent solution : The last thing students
want to see is another shutdown (kp
14/04/2021)
How
a conversation around the length of one’s hair
exposed the toxic environment of a Kathmandu
school: A number of former and current students
at St Mary’s School say the institution reeks
of toxicity, with many suffering through
years of harassment, queerphobia, and
humiliation, by Ankit Khadgi and Samiksha
Baral (kp 13/04/2021)
Suggestion
to close educational institutions worries
students, operators : After nine months of
closure, most schools and colleges had started
conducting in-person classes from January,
by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 13/04/2021)
Health
Ministry recommends school closure for at least
three weeks : Of the total infections at
present, 14 percent are in children compared to
4 percent in the past, officials say, by
Arjun Poudel (kp 11/04/2021), PABSON
urges government not to close schools (kh
11/04/2021)
Nepal
needs an ICT census : The survey will provide
facts and figures to help manage education
during crises, by Sagun Shrestha (kp
11/04/2021)
Govt
mulling to stop physical classes as the COVID-19
cases see a fresh spike (rep 09/04/2021)
Govt
to close educational institutes yet again if air
pollution continues (kh 06/04/2021)
Students
at this Humla school take classes outdoors : The
building of Dharmodaya Secondary School has not
been rebuilt after it was destroyed by a
landslide in 2019, by Janak Bahadur Shahi
(kp 03/04/2021)
Nepal
govt shuts schools, colleges for four days owing
to pollution (ht 29/03/2021), Education
institutions ordered shut for four days,
stakeholders criticise delayed response, by
Anup Ojha (kp 30/03/2021)
Free
broadband internet reaches 5,225 schools (ht
29/03/2021)
Valley’s
educational institutions in a fix over
Covid-19 advisory : Schools say the rule
advising against holding gatherings will be
impossible to implement while conducting
in-person classes., by Anup Ojha (kp
27/03/2021)
Durbar
High School’s new building reeks of
mismanagement : School administrators say they
were handed over a new building with lots of
facilities, but didn’t receive additional
financial and human resources to manage the
infrastructure, by Anup Ojha (kp 17/03/2021)
Schools
in mountains to lose academic time (ht
17/03/2021)
Laws
are not enough : We risk reversing years of
hard-earned progress toward keeping children,
especially girls, in school (kp 17/03/2021)
KMC
makes Nepal Bhasa mandatory in schools (ht
14/03/2021)
Elite
Stakes Dwindle In Public Education, by Mukti
Rijal (kp 11/03/2021)
Itahari
takes initiatives to end gender, sexual violence
in community schools : The sub-metropolis has
arranged for a gender focal person in each
community school, by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp
11/03/2021)
Volunteering
in schools : A real game changer, by Simone
Galimberti (ht 09/03/2021)
Ministry
decides to extend school year by 2 months : The
new academic year will now begin only in
mid-June, instead of April, and will be only 10
months long, by Binod Ghimire (kp
19/02/2021)
Nepal’s
class divide : How motivated young teaching
fellows are changing lives of students through
remedial education, by Tom Robertson (nt
19/02/2021)
After
mergers Baglung school buildings fall into
disrepair : Fifteen community schools in the
district have merged in the last four years
after they struggled to survive with low numbers
of students, by Prakash Baral (kp
16/02/2021)
Junk
food prohibited at schools across the country
(rep 16/02/2ß21)
Constitutional
Imperative Of Civic Education, by Dev Raj
Dahal (rn 13/02/2021)
Scholarships:
Engine of equity, social mobility, by Simone
Galimberti (ht 08/02/2021)
Biplav-called
strike shuts schools in five districts including
Dang (kh 08/02/2021) [According to Netra Bikram Chand, the
closing down of schools is obviously a
revolutionary act to promote the education of
Nepal's future generation! What an idiot!]
Around
1,000 schools on the verge of closure due to
pandemic: PABSON (kh 07/02/2021)
With
new building, Durbar High School attracts pupils
from private schools : Parents who could no
longer afford to send their kids to private
schools after their incomes was shrunk by the
pandemic are now looking at the government
school as an alternative, by Anup Ojha (kp
01/02/2021)
Inclusive
education for all: Joint front required, by
Simone Galimberti (kp 25/01/2021)
Federal
ministry calling shots in school projects irks
local governments, by Binod Ghimire (kp
24/01/2021)
Valley
schools reopening after 10 months (ht
18/01/2021), Continuum
of riskThere is little confidence that public
health protocols will be maintained in schools
(kp 19/01/2021)
Parents
apprehensive about sending children to school
after nine months, by Anup Ojha (kp
18/01/2021)
Students
study in roofless classrooms at this Salyan
school : A strong wind had blown away the roof
of the school building some eight months ago,
by Biplab Maharjan (kp 11/01/2021)
No
school for the children of Upper Mustang this
winter : All schools in the region, except one,
have cancelled this year’s winter migration
because of the pandemic, leaving many students
with no choice but to stay back, by Tsering
Ngodup Lama (kp 11/01/2021)
Challenges
Of Reopening In-Person Classes, by Bharat
Chand (rn 09/01/2021)
Schools
to reopen in Kathmandu metropolis from Jan 14
(kh 08/01/2021)
Children’s
education: Poverty determines the outcome,
by Amar Bahadur Sherma (ht 08/01/2021)
Uncertainty
looms large among youths as pandemic cripples
education sector, by Kunga Hyolmo (rep
08/01/2021)
Letting
provinces hold grade 10 exams is just delegation
of administrative task, experts say : Until
provincial governments are allowed to prepare
their own curricula, there is no devolution of
powers as per a federal dispensation, they argue,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 05/01/2021)
Poor
School Of Rich Village Sans Students (rn
04/01/2021)
Govt
gives green signal to reopen schools that remain
closed due to COVID-19 (rep 03/01/2021)
7
billion rupees remitted abroad for educational
expenses, by Rubi Rauniyar (rep 31/12/2020)
70%
of Nepali children studying at home on their
own; families are selling assets to survive:
Nationwide survey, by Shree Ram Subedi (rep
29/12/2020)
Angry
students up in arms against inequality in
education in Rautahat (ht 25/12/2020)
Making
schools inclusive: Multi-sectoral approach
needed, by Simone Galimberti (ht 21/12/2020)
How
Safe Is It To Reopen Schools In Capital?, by
Ajita Rijal (rn 18/12/2020)
Schools
resume in Kathmandu without KMC’s permission
(kh 17/12/2020)
Province
1 schools resume classes : Biratnagar has given
permission to educational institutions to
conduct classes from December 17, by Madhav
Ghimire (kp 16/12/2020)
Govt
frames compulsory free education rules (ht
14/12/2020)
How
can you be so irresponsible about education?,
by Mahabir Paudyal (rep 14/12/2020)
Reopened
schools in Ajaymeru closed down due to Covid-19
spread : Sixteen individuals in the rural
municipality tested positive for the coronavirus
on Thursday, by D.R. Pant (kp 12/12/2020)
Schools
in Shuklaphanta shut for 10 days (kh
10/12/2020)
Education
Ministry continues action against two bodies for
publishing commission report : A day after
seeking legal proceedings against the two for
violating copyright provisions, it asks major
donors about their ties with them, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 08/12/2020) [The
state is ours, says the Oli government. Civil
society has to shut up or face action!],
Government
recommends action against two NGOs (ht
08/12/2020), Publish
officially : There is a lot of speculation that
the report was shelved under pressure from the
private institutions (ht 09/12/2020), Schools
or lives : Reopening schools requires a thorough
assessment of the implications (kp
10/12/2020)
Exams
or no exams : Students should not be made the
victims of the older generation’s lethargy
(kp 08/12/2020)
Kathmandu
schools reopening after eight months : DoE
claims 80% schools outside Kathmandu are already
open (kh 07/12/2020), Reopening
of schools in Kathmandu Valley, a Covid-19
hotspot, raises alarm : While local governments
and schools say safety measures are in place,
experts warn children may carry the disease to
their grandparents who fall in the most
vulnerable category, by Arjun Poudel (kp
09/12/2020)
Stakeholders
want decision on grade 10 exams as time for
registration arrives : They do not want a repeat
of the arrangement made for last academic year
and are also concerned about the extent of
learning achievement across the grades, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 07/12/2020)
Private
schools should operate under a trust, recommends
National Education Commission Report :
Commission had submitted the report two years
ago, but govt refused to make public the
recommendations (rep 07/12/2020)
A
local unit in Rukum (West) implements revised
academic calendar : Aathbiskot will run classes
throughout the week to compensate for
classes missed amid Covid-19 fear, by Hari
Gautam (kp 07/12/2020)
Schools
struggling to manage pads (ht 07/12/2020)
Sudurpaschim
schools are reopening after a long hiatus :
Health officials warn reopening of schools is
fraught with coronavirus risk, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 05/12/2020)
Education
commission report publicised without officials
on board : Thirteen of the 25 members of the
commission, who made the report public, hope the
document will help start a debate on reforming
education, by Binod Ghimire (kp 05/12/2020)
Children
forced to study under open sky : Kisani
Secondary School was severely damaged by July’s
landslide and is yet to be rebuilt, by
Ghanshyam Khadka (kp 03/12/2020)
64
percent children didn’t find virtual learning
effective, nationwide survey says : Students
across country await resumption of schools after
months of staying home, by Binod Ghimire (kp
02/12/2020)
Schools
closed day after they opened (ht 01/12/2020)
Schools
reopen amid coronavirus scare (ht
25/11/2020)
Challenge
Of Reopening Schools, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
24/11/2020)
Six
Local Levels Resume Schools, Four Others
Planning (rn 24/11/2020) [related to Khotang
district]
Better
safe than sorry : The risks of contracting the
coronavirus indoors are higher compared to
outdoors (kp 23/11/2020)
Authorities
told to implement framework for resuming schools
(ht 23/11/2020)
Local
units in Sindhuli decide to resume community
school classesThree local governments have
already scheduled the resumption of physical
classes, by Raj Kumar Karki (kp 22/11/2020)
Plan
to resume schools must be backed by safety
measures, experts and guardian say : No harm in
trying to get back to normal, they say as
virtual classes are ineffective, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 21/11/2020)
'Hello
student program' to be launched in Province 1 to
teach students via telephone (rep 19/112020)
Schools
closed in Humla again (kh 19/11/2020), Humla
schools closed after 32 students at a school
test positive for Covid-19 : The District
Covid-19 Crisis Management Centre has also
restricted the movement of people from
outside as well as within the district to
contain the spread of coronavirus, by
Chhapal Lama (kp 20/11/2020)
Cabinet
endorses guidelines for reopening schools :
Local governments, however, say it might be too
risky to open schools at the moment given the
rising number of Covid-19 cases in the country,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 16/11/2020), Local
levels given authority to reopen schools (ht
19/11/2020)
Schools
to reopen after chhath festival (rep
12/11/2020)
Months
into virtual learning, parents become more
involved in their children’s education : There
is no denying that online education has taken a
toll on children and parents. But it has also
given many parents an opportunity to
understand their children’s learning process
better and be more engaged in their overall
development, by Srizu Bajracharya (kp
04/11/2020)
Learning
Essential Life Skills, by Namrata Sharma (rn
04/11/2020)
Online
classes : Bane or boon?, by Meera G. Anand
(ht 03/11/2020)
मधेसमा
शिक्षाको अवनति : प्रदेश २ ले पालिकाहरूलाई
शिक्षामा पर्याप्त अभिमुखीकरण गर्नुपर्छ ।
विद्यालय उमेर कटेका किशोरीहरूलाई एकीकृत
मातृभाषाका माध्यमबाट प्राविधिक शिक्षा दिन जरुरी
छ, by Tika Bhattarai (ka 02/11/2020)
Let
education continue : Government must ensure that
no student will have to lose their academic year
due to the pandemic. Every student should be
able to continue with learning process, by
Narayan Dahal (rep 20/10/2020)
Students
to be promoted without conducting regular exams
: Education experts say the Covid-19 pandemic
needs to be taken as an opportunity to improve
the assessment system in country’s schools,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 15/10/2020)
Parents
Divided Over Prospect Of Reopening Schools,
by Aashish Mishra (rn 12/10/2020)
A
crusader of Sanskrit education : Chandrakant
Paudel’s frustration at the inertia of progress
is something felt by many in rural areas, by
Pramod Mishra (kp 11/10/2020)
Learning
achievement gap widening amid Covid-19, experts
warn : While students at private schools
are having classes online that is not the case
at government ones, by Binod Ghimire (kp
10/10/2020)
How
school curriculum is implanting caste
stereotypes in young minds (rep 10/10/2020)
Two
women people’s representatives in Ghorahi join
school to learn to read and write : Locals hail
Yami Kumari Pun and Hima Devi BK for sending a
message about the importance of education.,
by Durgalal KC (kp 09/10/2020)
KMC
To Implement Nepal Bhasa Curriculum In Schools
(rn 06/10/2020)
Schools
in Baglung find it difficult to implement
learning facilitation directive : It is
impossible to reach every settlement in the
villages to conduct classes for students,
educators say, by Prakash Baral (kp
30/09/2020)
Save
The Academic Session, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
29/09/2020)
New
guideline on virtual classes draws criticism
from across the board, by Timothy Aryal (kp
29/09/2020)
Introduce
flexibility in education : The option to switch
disciplines is crucial to keep up with a rapidly
changing job market, by Sarita Sapkota (kp
29/09/2020)
Gokarneshwar
Municipality to open schools from Oct 2 (rep
27/09/2020)
Schools
To Open In Mirchaiya Municipality From Tomorrow
(rn 26/09/2020), Local
levels to resume schools from today in Siraha
district (ht 27/09/2020)
Students
of public schools deprived of education (ht
25/09/2020)
Distribution
of school book on Nepal’s borders and territory
halted : Land management and foreign affairs
ministries have reservations about the
textbook since Ministry of Education had
prepared it without consulting them, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 22/09/2020)
School
curricula slashed by 30 percent to wrap up the
academic session : But many schools are still
unclear on how to reach out to all the students
in one of the five prescribed teaching methods
and virtual learning remains a challenge, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 21/09/2020)
Schools
in Taplejung prepare to run classes by adopting
health and safety measures, by Ananda Gautam
(kp 19/09/2020)
Rural
municipalities turn to study groups after
virtual classes prove ineffective, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 19/09/2020)
Some
schools re-open in remote rural Nepal : Teachers
and parents see no sense keeping schools closed
when there is little or no Covid-19 spread,
by Alisha Sijapati (nt 18/09/2020)
Online
classes come at the cost of eye problems for
studentsDoctors fear the risk of myopia, and
predict that visits to doctors with eye
complaints will soar in the coming days as
restrictions on movement loosen, by Samiksha
Baral (kp 18/09/2020)
Digital
classes not viable in Rolpa; teachers, students
worried : Some schools in the district are
considering running physical classes soon,
by Dinesh Subedi (rep 17/09/2020) [This applies to many areas
of rural Nepal. Most likely, politicians at the
central political level have no idea of the
realities of rural Nepal at all!]
Government
adamant on implementing new curriculum for grade
11 this year : With the academic year truncated,
private school operators, who are planning to
start classes after Tihar, say this is not the
time to put additional burden on students.,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 16/09/2020)
Parents
welcome decision to introduce several
alternative learning platforms : The directive
comes as all students don’t have access to
internet services at their homes to join online
classes, by Aditi Aryal (kp 16/09/2020)
English
pedagogy in the time of Covid-19 : Educators
have had to face a new challenge, and that is
the very method of teaching to reach all
learners, by Abhi Subedi (kp 13/09/2020)
Internet
problem pesters students during online education
(kh 13/09/2020)
Local
governments to manage school education : Local
authorities charge the federal government
with waiting for months to announce the decision
and hindering children’s education, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 12/09/2020)
Mapping
Net Coverage, by Kundan Aryal (rn
11/09/2020)
Education
Ministry allows private schools to collect fees
for online classes (kh 10/09/2020)
Government
deadline for total literacy likely to be pushed
yet again : Since 2008-09, nearly Rs 12 billion
has been spent on several literacy
campaigns, yet 24 districts are still not fully
literate, by Binod Ghimire (kp 09/09/2020)
Turn
private schools into trusts, Bagmati proposes :
The provision, says a provincial minister, will
provide free and compulsory education to all
children as envisioned by the Constitution of
Nepal, by Binod Ghimire (kp 05/09/2020)
Alternative
learning be recognized as part of academic
session: Education Minister (kh 04/09/202) [This is a further
disadvantage for the vast majority of children
who do not have access to e-learning and at the
same time a further overprivileged position for
children in the urban high society.]
Government
preparing to accord formal status to remote and
virtual classes : Education experts, however,
warn that a large number of children still don’t
have to access distance learning, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 02/09/2020)
Education
In Shadow Of COVID-19, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
01/09/2020)
How
the government is failing education : The
students who have been deprived of learning will
look back to this time to recall how the
government failed education in the name of
pandemic, by Mahabir Paudyal (rep
30/08/2020)
At
least two-thirds of Nepal's schoolchildren
unable to access remote learning during school
closures: UNICEF (rep 28/08/2020)
Public
school teachers challenge rule to send kids to
state schools : No legal ground for making
teachers choose public schools for their
children, they argue, by Binod Ghimire (kp
28/08/2020)
Gender
inequality in education has widened during the
pandemic : With families struggling financially,
girls cannot focus on their studies. They have
to help out in household chores and do not
always have access to technology for remote
learning, by Elisha Shrestha (kp 26/08/2020)
COVID-19’S
Impact On Learning Habits, by Namrata Sharma
(rn 26/08/2020)
Schools
once used as quarantine centres are now damaged
and littered with garbage : Many schools in
Karnali Province have been left to pick up after
the mess left behind by quarantined villagers,
by Chandan Kathayat (kp 24/08/2020)
A
digital tool transforms education in rural areas
(rn 22/08/2020) [Online
education not only depends on power!!]
Only
30 per cent students have access to IT in
Bagmati Province (ht 21/08/2020)
Looking
through ‘iron gate’ The anxiety around SEE
this year should force a rethink of Nepal’s
educational evaluation system (kp
19/08/2020)
Debunking
Nepal’s Education Sector Fallacies, by
Sourav Dhungana and Adhiraj Regmi (ht 19/08/2020)
Government
fails to design courses for children with
disabilities: Many schools are running virtual
classes for their students, but children with
disabilities have been left behind, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 16/08/2020)
Learning
during Covid-19: Nepal has pursued remote and
e-learning opportunities to offset school
closures, by Pratistha Koirala (kp
16/08/2020)
Govt
Exploring Alternative Ways To Upgrade Children
To Avoid Loss Of Academic Year, by Manjima
Dhakal (rn 16/08/2020)
Community
schools in Baglung demand for handover of
classrooms requisitioned for Covid-19
management: Local governments say the
coronavirus threat is still not over and they
may need the school buildings to quarantine and
isolate people; The Cabinet on July 31 directed
local officials to vacate schools and classrooms,
by Prakash Baral (kp 14/08/2020)
COVID-19
impact on food and school in Nepali children:
20% of children eating less, 52% not studying at
all from home (nt 14/08/2020) [see
corresponding baseline
findings by UNICEF Nepal and Sharecast]
Half
of Nepal’s girls may drop out of school: Survey
shows 53% of female students may not go back to
schools when they reopen, by Namrata Sharma
(nt 14/08/2020)
Covid-19
leaves devastating impacts on education, jobs
and mental well-being of youths: ILO study says
that the Covid-19 has disrupted the education of
more than 70 per cent of youth, leaving a
disproportionate effect on young people, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 13/08/2020)
School
Enrolment Plan Questioned (rn 08/08/2020)
National
Education Policy: A Comparative Analysis, by
Kushal Pokharel (rn 08/08/2020)
Kathmandu
starts drive to provide sanitary pads to
students of all community schools in city: A
total of 14,810 girls will benefit from the
scheme, for which the city has released Rs 14.9
million to all its wards, by Anup Ojha (kp
07/08/2020)
Education
ministry plans to revise calendar, curricula for
new school year: A government-formed team of
experts working out details, says officials,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 04/08/2020)
Online
School Education And Digital Literacy, by
Harsha Man Maharjan (rn 04/08/2020)
Call
to grant rights to reopen schools to local
levels (ht 03/08/2020)
Country’s
education sector at crossroads, by Simone
Galimberti (ht 02/08/2020)
Government
prepares for enrolling students from August 18:
Public health experts say schools shouldn’t be
reopened for at least the next two months
(kp 31/07/2020)
‘A
decade of work lost in 4 months’: Nepal’s
volunteer teachers fight the crisis in rural
education caused by the COVID-19 lockdown,
by Sheryl Lee (nt 31/07/2020)
As
pandemic stops Nepali students from going
abroad, consultancies and other businesses take
a hit: Plans of thousands of students to study
abroad have been either postponed or shattered
due to Covid-19 related travel restrictions, and
suspension of visa services, by Aditi Aryal
and Elisha Shrestha (kp 29/07/2020) [This would be the time and
opportunity for a complete overhaul of the
Nepalese education system. Unfortunately,
however, the responsible politicians are just as
uninterested in this as they are in controlling
the pandemic, providing emergency aid for the
numerous natural disasters and measures to
prevent them in the future, saving the economy
in a forward-looking manner, full equality for
women and their protection against criminal
elements, exposing capital crimes or immediately
rescuing the desperate migrant workers who are
willing to return and creating jobs in the
country on a permanent basis. Instead, the small
male group in power, mainly Bahun, is engaged in
senseless struggles for power and personal
privileges.]
Ajad
Secondary School Resumes Classes After Lockdown,
by Madhusudhan Timilsina (rn 24/07/2020)
Education
Sector Stuck In Limbo After Pandemic, by
Bharat Chand (rn 24/07/2020)
Education
ministry working to issue guidelines to resume
schools, by Ruby Rauniyar (rep 23/07/2020)
Remote
learning of around two million students from
private schools hampered as government fails to
decide on fees: Teachers’ association says most
of the schools have not paid their employees
since March, by Binod Ghimire (kp
19/07/2020) [In any
case, remote learning is not possible in greater
parts of the country and for major sections of
society!]
Managing
Education Sector, by Mukti Rijal (rn
16/07/2020)
Private
schools decide to discontinue online classes
from Thursday (rep 16/07/2020))
Education
Ministry mulls allowing local governments to
resume schools in places with low risk of
Covid-19: Public health experts say it's not
safe to hold any activity that brings people
together, by Binod Ghimire (kp 15/07/2020)
Community
schools in Jhapa reach students through radio
programmes: Although the schools are running
online classes, most students cannot participate
without an internet connection, by Parbat
Portel (kp 14/07/2020)
Achham
children deprived of education with no means to
attend online classes: Most children in rural
areas spend time roaming around villages,
playing in groups or herding their livestock
unaware of the risk of contracting or spreading
the coronavirus, by Menuka Dhungana (kp
10/07/2020)
School
Education Needs Paradigm Shift, by Bhushan
Dahal (rn 10/07/2020)
Education
ministry buckles under pressure from private
schools on issue of charging tuition fees: After
schools threatened to discontinue virtual
classes, the ministry has withdrawn its earlier
directive that prohibited schools from charging
fees during the lockdown period, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 07/07/2020)
Private
schools threaten to discontinue online classes
if they are not allowed to charge tuition fees:
The Ministry of Education has asked them to come
with recommendations to resolve the issue,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 02/07/2020)
Education
Sector Facing Uncertainty, by Uttam Maharjan
(rn 30/06/2020)
Government
finalising bill to grant licenses to schools
only if investors agree not to use profit for
personal benefit: The provision, however, will
be applicable only to new schools as the law
won’t have a retrospective effect, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 27/06/2020)
Private
schools urge guardians to pay fee (ht
22/06/2020), Defying
government’s directives and parliamentary
committee’s order, private schools ask parents
to pay tuition fees: Guardians’ association asks
parents not to budge under pressure, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 23/06/2020), A
balancing act: Private schools can’t collect
fees when they're closed. They can’t go bankrupt
either (kp 24/06/2020)
Learning
curves: Doubts persist over the efficacy of the
government’s ambitious alternative learning
model (kp 16/06/2020) [As so often, Oli obviously doesn't know
what he's talking about. Probably within a week
he will provide the whole country with the
necessary infrastructure and personally take
over costs that cannot be borne by the mass of
the poor population.]
Reflecting
on our behaviours for positive change: For a
nation that continues to believe itself to be
community-oriented, Nepal is increasingly
becoming individualistic, by Diva Shrestha
(kp 14/06/2020)
Online
classes could lead to fatigue, long term
physiological problems, say experts: While
different countries have started debating about
its negative consequences, Nepal’s government is
promoting virtual classes without looking into
ways to deal with its downsides, they say,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 13/06/2020)
Time
To Revolutionise Our Education System, by
Avash Palikhe (rn 13/06/2020) [Obviously, the author has little
information on Nepal's society and the
conditions that exist especially in rural areas:
E-learning will not be possible for a very long
time!!]
Assessing
Student Learning Facilitation, by Kushal
Pokharel (rn 13/06/2020)
Children
from low-income working class families can't
join online classes: Schools and colleges across
the country are rolling out online classes, but
those without the means to get a computer or an
internet connection are being left out, by
Anup Ojha (kp 09/06/2020) [We are talking about the overwhelming
majority of Nepalese school children!]
Private
schools to lobby government to resume classes
next month: Parents worry resuming classes may
increase the risk of transmission of Covid-19,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 07/06/2020)
Gagan
asks Education Minister: Are you venerating the
President like Shree Six? (kh 07/06/2020)
For
the first time, the government announces cash
incentives to promote merger of private schools
in the public: The incentive sum ranges from Rs
2 million to Rs 5 million, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 04/06/2020)
Oli
administration taking decisions keeping
respective ministries in the dark: Announcement
in the new budget to assign private high schools
to look after a public school leads to severe
criticism, by Binod Ghimire [This is normal under
Oliarchy!] (kp 02/06/2020), Idea
came from private schools: Khatiwada (ht
02/06/2020), Public
schools warrant more than cosmetic changes:
Private schools can't bear the burden of
overhauling Nepal's public education system
(kp 03/06/2020)
Digital
divide too wide for online classes to succeed in
Nepal: The government has proposed online
teaching-learning, but a majority of the schools
and students in the country do not have
computers, much less the internet, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 28/05/2020), The
digital divide: Supporting private investment in
education will not increase access to learning
during the current crisis (kp 28/05/2020), Preparing
schools for a changing digital landscape, by
Sudha Rajouria (ht 02/06/2020) [An idea for rich people in
urban areas!], Education
under Covid-19: Who knows, e-classrooms and
homeschooling could be the shape of things to
come, by Mohit Rauniyar (kp 03/06/2020) [Most people in Nepal,
especially in rural areas, have neither the
necessary infrastructure nor the money!]
Innovating
online education: Without proper plans,
sufficient technological tools, and much-needed
awareness among all stakeholders, it won’t be
possible to achieve positive outcomes from
ongoing online education, by Sagar Gyawali
(rep 24/05/29020)
Educationists
say private investment in education sector will
only make schools more expensive: Government has
announced to encourage private sector investment
in education in its plans and programmes, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 24/05/2020)
The
myth and methods of teaching English in Nepal:
Whether syllabuses have worked or failed have
always been decided by the learners of the
language, by Abhi Subedi (kp 24/05/2020)
Tansen
Municipality in Palpa to mobilise teachers at
students’ doorsteps with no sign of school
resumption: Other local governments are also
planning alternative education approaches to
teach children during coronavirus lockdown,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 23/05/2020)
Education
Sector In The Govt Policy Paper, by Kushal
Pokharel (rn 23/05/2020)
Education
in the time of corona: Unequal access to
high-speed internet is a big challenge for
online education in Nepal, as the country
exhibits a huge internet infrastructure
differences among its regions, by Sanjeev
Dahal and Roshana Dhamala (ae 22/95/2020)
Education
In Emergency, by Umesh Raj Regmi (rn
20/05/2020)
Two
schools in Humla are still running classes: The
two basic schools in Limi, Namhka Ward No.6 are
teaching their students citing that there’s no
threat of coronavirus spread in the area, by
Chhapal Lama (kp 17/05/2020)
Dilemma
And Difficulty Of Online Classes, by Kushal
Pokharel (rn 16/05/2020)
Lockdown
gives distance learning a boost in Nepal: Home
learning familiarises teachers and students with
technology, and could help lift quality of
instruction, by Shristi Karki (nt
15/05/2020)
Guru
karma in virtual times: Nepali professors
strongly believe in chalk and duster. The shift
to virtual learning will be challenging, by
Abhi Subedi (kp 10/05/2020)
A
Note On The Goal Of Education, by Dev Raj
Dahal (rn 09/05/2020)
Millions
of students face uncertain future (ht
09/05/2020)
Hitches
Of Online Classes, by Bini Dahal (rn
08/05/2020), Lockdown
gives distance learning a boost in Nepal: Home
learning familiarises teachers and students with
technology, and could help lift quality of
instruction, by Shristi Karki (nt
08/05/2020)
Learning
in the time of Covid-19: With many elite private
schools fully shifted to online classes,
ensuring that learning continues for all
children across the country should take on
heightened importance, by Sakar Pudasaini
(kp 06/05/2020)
Govt
Tells Schools Not To Enroll Students (rn
06/05/2020)
Is
online teaching really worth it? School
administrators coercing students to adapt
technologies of learning better learn what the
digital divide means, by Dinesh Kafle (kp
04/05/2020), Can
we embrace tech education during lockdown?,
by Raghab Sharma (kh 04/05/2020)
‘Grades
I to IX results, admission process soon’ (ht
04/05/2020)
Soft
loan announced for private schools that don’t
charge students for a month: Some private
schools don’t have savings to meet their
expenses even for a month, say representatives,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 03/05/2020)
Schools
Scramble To Run Virtual Classes, by Manjima
Dhakal (rn 30/04/2020) [What
about the rural areas, i.e. the greater part of
the country??]
Local
solutions for education: To ensure children
continue to learn, federal, provincial, and
local governments have to find locally adaptable
solutions to support the learning opportunity
for children, by Shisir Khanal (rep
30/04/2020)
School
Unlikely To Open Soon: Edu Minister (rn
26/04/2020)
SEE
to take place after situation gets normal:
Education Ministry (kh 26/04/2020)
Educational
Implications Of COVID-19, by Kushal Pokharel
(rn 25/04/2020)
Education
Ministry plans online instruction as lockdown
halts teaching-learning activities: Country
lacks the infrastructure to shift towards
e-learning, experts say, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 16/04/2020) [This
would at best be something for the children of
the rich urban elite. The education gap would
widen even more!]
Can
computers replace classrooms? As a result of the
nation-wide lockdown, colleges have rolled out
online classes. But their effectiveness is
questionable in a country where traditional
pedagogy approaches are still highly practised.
Online education isn’t for everyone though, due
to issues of power and connectivity, by
Ankit Khadgi and Aditi Aryal (kp 05/04/2020)
Organisations
offer children free access to e-learning:
Opportunity for thousands of students waiting
for their Secondary Education Examinations,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 26/03/2020) [And what about the rural
areas?]
Improving
School Governance, by Shak Bahadur
Budhathoki (rn 23/03/2020)
Education
As State Function, by Mukti Rijal (rn
19/03/2020)
Schools,
colleges to close down; SEE to take place as
scheduled (ht 18/03/2020)
Political
wranglings continue unabated in Bajhang’s public
schools: Many school administrations across the
district focus on taking financial benefits out
of the school's budgets, according to the
Education Unit, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
17/03/2020), Keep
politics out of schools: Politicisation has
compromised the quality of education (kp
18/03/2020)
Parents
demand that schools close down but government
wants to finish with exams first: As Covid-19
continues to spread, parents are concerned with
the safety of their children, as schools bring
together large groups of people in confined
spaces, by Binod Ghimire (kp 14/03/2020)
Introducing
alternative mediums of instruction to early
grade teachers: Including the arts in education
can provide curricular access to those with
diverse learning styles, by Niranjan Kunwar
(kp 14/03/2020)
Government
directive to rush exams as coronavirus
precaution upsets school schedule: Many schools
are scrambling to complete their courses to
conduct their finals before March 18, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 09/03/2020)
Education
in Rolpa: Students compelled to sit for exams
before completion of course, by Dinesh
Subedi (rep 05/03/2020)
Two-day
Int'l Conference on Innovative Education begins
in Kathmandu today (rep 02/03/2020)
Final
exams are just a month away but a Siraha school
has yet to teach three subjects: The then
district education office in 2012 allowed the
school to run classes till grade eight but
didn’t appoint teachers, by Bharat Jargha
Magar (kp 01/03/2020)
A
nation at risk: Unless Nepal swiftly and
significantly invests in innovative and
cost-effective education initiatives, we may be
handing over a highly vulnerable and risky
nation to the next generation, by Arun R.
Joshi (01/03/2020)
JEMC's
printing press in Nepalgunj gathering dust for
years, by Arjun Oli (rep 01/03/2020)
Teach
them yoga: Schools of Nepal should find new
approach of punishment that will help students
outgrow negativity and develop positive
attitude. The best way to do this is by teaching
them yoga, by Biranchi Poudyal (rep
25/02/2020)
A
week since the start of the academic session,
Humla’s public schools are yet to start classes:
Unlike other districts across the country,
academic session in Humla starts in mid-February
because the district sees extreme weather during
winter, by Chhapal Lama (kp 24/02/2020)
Girl
students benefit from installation of pad
vending machines in community schools: The
school took the initiative from this academic
session with the help of the municipality,
by Mohan Shahi (22/0/2020)
Lack
of textbooks in Himalayan districts affect
school enrollment campaign: Delay in supply of
textbooks a yearly occurrence, according to
students, by Hari Gautam (19/02/2020)
A
nation at risk: Invest heavily in education,
by Arun R. Joshi (ht 19/02/2020)
Community
Learning Centres: An effective tool for
development, by Uttam Maharjan (ht
18/02/2020)
Students
are missing classes as schools fail to
distribute sanitary pads: In May 2019, President
Bidya Devi Bhandari had announced that sanitary
pads would be distributed to girls in community
schools for free from the beginning of the
current fiscal year, by, by Pratap Bista (kp
16/02/2020), Sanitary
pad machines being installed (ht 18/02/2020)
[related to Birganj]
As
many as 15 community schools in Tanahun start
providing technical education: Technical
education has been included in the school
curricula keeping in view the unemployment of
educated youths in society today, according to
the Education Ministry, by Samjhana Rasaili
(kp 15/02/2020)
Inclusive
education: It benefits everyone, by Pushpa
Priya (ht 13/02/2020)
Taplejung’s
model-oriented schools in dire straits due to
high number of students, fewer teachers and lack
of infrastructure, by Ananda Gautam (kp
12/02/2020)
Trapped
between the shortfall of students and government
policy, Kamalpur Basic School in Chitwan faces
an uncertain future: The school has 25 students
enrolled this academic year. Until two years
ago, the school had grades up to five; the fifth
grade was discontinued due to a lack of students,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 10/02/2020)
The
local units will decide which schools should get
state grants, not the president: Office of the
President is envisioned to have a largely
ceremonial role, not an executive one (kp
07/02/2020)
Private
schools: Public questions, by Atindra Dahal
(ht 06/02/2020)
Dalit
children drop out of school due to poverty,
by Janak KC (rep 06/02/2020)
Justice
Key To Boost Education, by Dev Raj Dahal (rn
04/02/2020)
Curriculum
Framework For School, by Kushal Pokharel (rn
01/02/2020)
Bookstores'
decision to halt imports places attention once
again on taxes on books: Responding to the
decision, many on social media have decried the
taxation of books on the grounds that reading is
about learning and education, by Shashwat
Pant (kp 30/01/2020)
Bhotekoshi
Rural Municipality is teaching Mandarin in
schools: The locals from the villages along the
Nepal-China border believe that learning the
language will help them communicate better with
those across the frontier, by Anish Tiwari
(kp 30/01/2020)
A
basic school in Rajbiraj fails to attract
students: The school has a total of 13 students
from grade one to five and all of them are given
lessons together, by Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp
30/01/2020)
Teachers
demand that private schools be converted into
trusts: An education commission has recommended
that the government convert all private schools
from companies to trusts in order to prevent
commercialisation, by Binod Ghimire (kp
26/01/2020)
Schools
in Rupandehi local unit are not ready for
mandatory English teaching: People need to let
go of the mentality that English medium teaching
produces talented students, education officer
says, by Amrita Anmol (kp 26/01/2020)
Community
schools in Kalikot a playground for local
political leaders: Politicisation of school
management committee elections in community
schools expose students to highly volatile
political atmosphere hampering their studies,
by Tularam Pandey (kp 22/01/2020)
Computer
class ineffective in Jhapa community schools:
Schools lack computers and qualified teachers to
run computer science classes, by Arjun
Rabanshi (kp 17/01/2020)
Province
5 trains community school teachers, students to
improve SEE results: The province has introduced
reformative education measures following poor
performance by students in science and maths in
SEE, by Amrita Anmol (kp 15/01/2020)
Charm
of English-medium schools leading to closure of
community schools in Tanahun (ht 15/01/2020)
Community
school in Rolpa: Classrooms on the 'verge of
collapse, by Dinesh Subedi (rep 14/01/2020)
Dump
the old curriculum: There is a need to broaden
our educational programmes so that students can
access alternative methods and spaces for
learning, by Niranjan Kunwar (kp 13/01/2020)
Yoga
included in school curriculum (ht
13/01/2020)
At
this school on Capital’s outskirts, blind
students are setting sights on higher goals:
Prithvi Narayan Secondary School caters to 14
blind students from a hostel run by a man who
himself lost his eyesight at the age of 20,
by Anup Ojha (kp 12/01/2020)
There’s
only one secondary school in remote Chumnubri,
and it has leaking roofs and few teachers:
Besides Chumnubri’s students, children from
Uhiya, Gumda, Kashigaun and Kerauja of Dharche
Rural Municipality also study at the school,
by Hariram Uprety (kp 12/01/2020)
A
municipality in Rukum (West) to monitor public
school employees and students’ attendance:
Chaurjahari Municipality has introduced the
Educational Counselling and Technology Programme
in 23 of 40 schools to discourage negligence in
teaching and learning activities, by Hari
Gautam (11/01/2020)
Needed:
More money for schools: The government must
ensure adequate funding for education (kp
09/01/2020)
Three
years on, ambitious school programme fails to
meet a majority of targets: Officials cite
falling share of the education budget as the
primary reason for the poor show, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 08/01/2020)
At
a community school in Salyan, there are no
teachers: The municipal office reportedly
transferred the last remaining teacher of the
school to another institution, citing low
enrolment numbers, by Biplab Maharjan (kp
07/01/2020)
Debating
education: The pressing issue is not language of
instructions. Lack of efficient teachers,
declining number of students, lack of proper
monitoring and evaluation on public schools by
the government are, by Bam Dev Sharma (rep
06/01/2020)
Teaching
challenges: Each student, motivated or
demotivated, engaged or disengaged, has
strengths that can be enhanced through practice
and process of self-confidence building, by
Simone Galimberti (rep 05/01/2020)
Education
Minister launches sanitary pad distribution
without preparation: The local governments,
which are supposed to procure and distribute the
pads, have yet to get the budget, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 01/01/2020)
Revisiting
Public Schools, by Prem Khatry (rn
01/01/2020)
Children
in juvenile reform centre deprived of schooling:
There is a lack of teachers, textbooks and
stationery for the children staying in the
reform home, by Madhu Shahi (kp 01/01/2020)
‘’Mid-day
meal’ programme in Dadeldhura’s community
schools found effective: The programme includes
the students’ parents, who are provided with
stipends and taught to prepare nutritious meals
for their children, by D.R. Pant (kp
01/01/2020)
Without
proper sanitation facilities, girls keep missing
school during menstruation: While menstrual
taboos already lead girls to miss school, a lack
of water and sanitation at schools only pushes
them to stay away, by Elisha Shrestha (kp
31/12/2019)
This
school in Lalitpur is fusing education with
environment: Since its establishment more than a
decade ago, Vajra Academy’s vision has been
clear: equip students with the tools of critical
thinking, not just churn out high-scoring SEE
students, by Ankit Khadgi (kp 31/12/2019)
Year
of controversy: Four years after the
constitution came into force, the local
governments have not been allowed to exercise
their constitutional right of managing school
education, by Binod Ghimire (kp 31/12/2019)
Students
in a Sarlahi school forced to sit on cold floors
as mercury dip grips Tarai: In many ways, Janata
Basic School is emblematic of the condition of
community schools across the country, by Om
Prakash Thakur (kp 30/12/2019)
When
will the schools be reconstructed? Only 43 of
the 130 schools damaged by the earthquake
reconstructed so far (rep 30/12/2019)
[related to Palpa district]
A
model public school in Dang provides mandatory
yoga lessons: The school has ‘yoga classes’ for
its seventh period where the students are led
through basic yoga exercises, by Durgalal KC
(kp 29/12/2019)
Sense
and insensitivity: We are cultivating masses of
insensitive, irresponsible, misogynistic youths
who wouldn’t even go the length to be humans
first, by Ushma Rebel (rep 29/12/2019)
Dropout
rate in schools still alarming in Makwanpur: As
per the data, the dropout rate for girls is
slightly higher than for boys. As many as 6,524
girls quit school in the middle of the session
this past year, from a total of 12,220 students,
by Pratap Bista (kp 27/12/2019)
Govt
to enact new laws for education sector (ht
25/12/2019)
Address
Local Educational Issues, by Shak Bahadur
Budhathoki (rn 23/12/2019)
Inclement
weather keeps students away from Saptari schools
(ht 23/12/2019)
Education
policy not following constitutional provision,
by Sabitri Dhakal (ht 22/12/2019), Education
Policy: An Overview, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
22/12/2019)
Midday
meal increases attendance of students (ht
21/12/2019)
Rolpa,
where students still walk three hours to reach
school, by Dinesh Subedi (rep 20/12/2019)
Against
constitution and Education Act, Kathmandu is
hell-bent on holding grade 10 exams on its own,
officials say: The statute promulgated more than
four years ago authorises local governments to
manage school education, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 18/12/2019) [Long
live the authoritarian central state!]
In
Kathmandu’s schools, it’s not just teachers who
are watching you: Surveillance cameras have
become ubiquitous in Kathmandu’s schools and
colleges. But students and teachers say they
come at the cost of personal freedoms, by
Tulsi Tauniyar (kp 18/12/2019)
Concerns
over education policy (rep 16/12/2019)
A
local unit in Syangja initiates a campaign to
reform education in community schools: Under the
campaign, chief of the rural municipality is
listening to students’ grievances, by
POratiksha Kafle (kp 14/12/2019)
The
only school in the Raji community in Bhajani is
on the verse of collapse: The school was
established around 12 years ago, with efforts by
the locals, by Ganesh Chaudhary (kp
14/12/2019)
Fewer
students attending Siraha school (ht
13/12/2019)
Govt
unveils National Education Policy (ht
12/12/2019)
Hima
residential school: A boon for helpless children,
by Dhan Bahadur Budha (rep 11/12/2019)
Digital
literacy campaign starts in schools (ht
10/12/2019)
Educationists
question the rationale of extra classes in
schools: While schools say extra classes prepare
students to do well in exams, many believe they
deprive students of free time and
extracurricular activities, by Shuvam
Dhungana (kp 08/12/2019)
To
keep students in school, local unit launches
mid-day meals in Tehrathum, by Chandra Karki
(kp 07/12/2019)
Problems
running classes for disabled kids: School faces
shortage of classrooms, sign language teachers,
by Khagendra Ghimire (ht 04/12/2019)
State
fails to allocate adequate budget to rebuild
quake-ravaged public schools: The current delay
means students will have to wait a few more
years to shift from makeshift structures, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 03/12/2019)
Making
schools friendlier and safer for children:
Schools in other parts of the country need to
start exercises in laying down rules and
provisions aimed at curbing instances of sexual
assault in schools (kp 29/11/2019)
Fund
shortage likely to hit post-quake school
reconstruction drive: Rs 30bn needed to
finish rebuilding all damaged schools
within next fiscal (ht 27/11/2019)
New
curriculum to be implemented from next year
(ht 25/11/2019)
Free
education by law: Nepal’s constitution and
compulsory education act are more progressive
than UN Conventions and other constitutions in
terms of ensuring education as a human right,
by Jivesh Jha (rep 25/11/2019)
Scrutinising
The National Education Policy, by Kushal
Pokharel (rn 24/11/2019)
Shortage
of funds pegging back community schools in
Jhapa: Education experts say the lack of funding
prevented the schools from running education
reform programmes, by Arjun Rajbanshi (kp
22/11/2019)
Dadeldhura
school uses a reformative teaching method to
attract pupils: Open and engaging atmosphere at
the school has encouraged guardians to enroll
their wards at the school, students say, by
DR Pant (kp 20/11/2019)
Modern
science labs and libraries built in all of
Butwal's community schools: The drive aims to
strengthen teaching-learning experience through
practical education (kp 19/11/2019)
The
learning crisis requires a new approach: The
crisis not only wastes the children’s potential
but will also negatively impact future
workforces and economic competitiveness, by
David Malpass (kp 18/11/2019)
Failing
education system: A Marxian paradigm, by
Biplav Dhakal (ht 18/11/2019)
Students
in Rukum (East) put their fishing skills to good
use: Besides paying their tuition fees, some of
the boys have been supplementing their families’
income with the money they make by selling fish,
by Hari Gautam (kp 17/11/2019)
Mid-day
meal programme effective in keeping children in
school in Makwanpurgadhi: The rural municipality
has allocated Rs 10 million for the programme in
the running fiscal year, by Pratap Bista (kp
16/11/2019)
‘Beti
Bachau-Beti Padhau’ campaign fails to take off
this year in the absence of employees: Under the
scheme, which is often referred to as a pet
project of Chief Minister of Province-2, Lal
Babu Raut, every newborn girl is to be insured
across all eight districts in the province,
by Santosh Singh (kp 14/11/2019)
Rolpa
schools witness high drop-out rate, by
Dinesh Subedi (rep 14/11/2019)
School
keeps deaf students of different grades in same
class: Teachers at Tribhuvan Jana Secondary
School in Salyan say that they lack resources to
run separate classes for the deaf students,
by Biplav Maharjan (kp 11/11/2019)
Most
public school teachers enroll their wards in
private schools, a survey shows: Commentators
say the statistics show the public school
teachers’ loss of faith in their own profession,
by Durga Lal KC (kp 11/11/2019)
Uprooting
illiteracy in two years: Needs relevant laws
soon, by Uttam Maharjan (ht 11/11/2019)
New
education policy ignores nearly all
recommendations made by a high-level education
commission: The policy serves the interests of
the private sector, which had lobbied against
the commission’s recommendations, commission
members say, by Binod Ghimire (kp
10/11/2019), The
government has undermined education: A core
value for a country to develop, the federal
govenrment must make amends (kp 11/11/2019)
New
education policy envisions Nepal as hub for
students (ht 09/11/2019)
Government
school in Meghauli adopts smart learning
classes: Since the introduction of digital
learning in classes, learning has become fun and
effective, say students, by Ramesh Kumar
Paudel (kp 07/11/2011)
Trust
Deficit In Public Schools, by Mukti Rijal
(rn 07/11/2019)
10
schools in Doti get safe infrastructures
(rep 07/11/2019)
Political
parties block community school merger and
teacher adjustment plan in Rolpa: Rolpa district
education unit says efforts to improve community
schools have been stymied by political parties,
by Kashiram Dangi (kp 06/11/2019)
Private
schools in Jajarkot defy scholarship provision:
According to the Education Act, 10 percent
scholarship should be provided to children
belonging to marginalised groups and families of
martyrs, by Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp
06/11/2019)
Confusion
in local governments threatens to derail federal
government’s total literacy plan: Singha Durbar
aims to achieve total literacy in the country by
July 2021, by Binod Ghimire (kp 01/11/2019)
Filling
in the education gap: Students who move to the
Capital for higher education often find
themselves in a challenging and different
academic culture, by Arjun Bhattarai (kp
01/11/2019)
More
Bankariya children are going to school: The
ethnic Bankariya community is one of the most
endangered communities in Nepal and owns no land,
by Pratap Bista (kp 28/10/2019)
A
madrasa blends traditional education with modern
to keep up with the changing times: Talimul
Kuran Community School in Birtabazaar is
teaching subjects like English, Nepali, science,
mathematics, social studies and computer,
besides Urdu, by Arjun Rajbanshi (kp
27/10/2019)
Education
Ministry makes a push for not counting
illiterate persons during census: The ministry
fears its claim on literacy rate could be called
into question if 2021 census comes up with
different figures, statistics bureau officials
say, by Binod Ghimire (kp 27/10/2019) [???!!]
Technical
education: Focus on practical work, by Uttam
Neupane (ht 24/10/2019)
Student
number dwindling in Salyan’s community schools:
Guardians’ preference for private schools over
community schools is contributing to the
decrease in students’ number, by Biplab
Maharjan (kp 22/10/2019)
Teaching
life skills: From curriculum to classroom,
by Dronashish Neupane (ht 16/10/2019)
Government
has agreed to promote Mandarin in Nepali schools
and not everyone seems pleased: Parents’ group
says the government should not foist the
language course on children, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 15/10/2019)
Movement
to reform education system takes off in Dang:
Local units have started monitoring government
schools to ensure quality education, by
Durgalal KC (kp 12/10/2019)
This
monastery in Chobhar provides shelter and
education to impoverished girls from Humla, but
not everyone wants to be a nun: Girls as young
as 10-years-old are dropped off at the Sulakshan
Kirti Vihar for better education by their
parents, but a monastic life is expected of them,
by Srizu Bajracharya (kp 05/10/2019)
Pokhara
Academy of Health Science to start MD and MS
courses: A meeting chaired by the Prime Minister
KP Sharma Oli on September 18 permitted to grant
17 seats for the academy, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 05/10/2019)
Many
education consultancies are still operating
without government permits: Officials say they
are waiting for the Federal Education Act to
define their mandate to oversee education
consultancies, by Binod Ghimire (kp
01/10/2019)
Students
regular in school after the construction of new
school buildings in Sindhupalchok: Construction
of 290 school buildings has been completed so
far, authorities say, by Anish Tiwari (kp
28/09/2019)
A
majority of Musahar children in a Rautahat
village don’t go to school: On school days,
children from the impoverished community are
seen running and playing in the village, by
Shiva Puri (kp 28/09/2019)
Centre
for Education threatens to cut student
facilities if public schools don’t update
student data: Local governments say they have
been unable to update the data as they lack
administrative staff, by Binod Ghimire (kp
24/09/2019) [This
anti-federal government and administration will
never understand and implement the principles of
federalism!], The
federal government should let local governments
take care of education: Respective governments
need to work within the parameter of their
jurisdiction to make sure that innocent children
do not suffer unnecessarily (kp 26/09/2019)
Number
of students decreasing in community schools in
northern Ramechhap: According to school
administrations, the number of students has
dropped because many families have migrated to
cities for employment and other opportunities,
by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 22/09/2019)
Education
For Progress, by Dev Raj Dahal (rn
17/09/2019)
Province
3 government launches programmes to impart
quality education in community schools: The
Ministry of Social Development has allocated Rs
173 million budget in the current fiscal year to
reform the school sector, by Subash Bidari
(kp 16/09/2019)
US$
10.5b education project in trouble: Mid-term
review: World Bank and ADB skeptical about
govt’s literacy achievement claims, not keen to
further support SSDP, by Ruby Rauniyar (rep
16/09/2019)
Free
sanitary pad distribution helps improve
attendance among girls in Sindhuli school: Under
the One School, One Nurse programme, girl
students in Janajyoti Secondary School have been
receiving reproductive health counselling,
by Sujata Lama (kp 15/09/2019)
Challenges
Of Community Schools, by Hira Bahadur Thapa
(rn 13/09/2019)
Teaching
population studies: The right age to start,
by Mira Gotame (ht 09/09/2019)
Community
schools outshine private ones in Rolpa, by
Dinesh Subedi (rep 07/09/2019)
Government
says it will achieve total literacy in two
years: This is the third time the government has
made this announcement, and experts say setting
targets without proper evaluation won’t yield
results, by Binod Ghimire (kp 03/09/2019), The
government should prepare a plan to achieve
total literacy: It should focus more on ways to
ensure that the children stay in school until
they complete their studies, at least until the
secondary level (kp 04/09/2019)
Attendance
of Dalit students severely low in Kalikot:
Guardians lament that they can’t send their
children to school because they need manpower to
make a living for the family, by Tula Ram
Pandey (kp 02/09/2019)
Breaking
the barriers : No matter how much we glorify
role of ICT in improving education, it cannot
happen without larger participation of teachers,
by Hitesh Karki (rep 01/09/2019)
85%
govt schools 'unsuitable' for teaching, learning
activities: Govt Report, by Ruby Rauniyar
(rep 31/08/2019)
Hardly
15 percent of public schools are providing
appropriate teaching-learning environment to
students: Even model schools have below-average
performance, a government study shows, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 30/08/2019)
Schools
in Birtamod teaching local textbook (ht
29/08/2019)
Civic
Education For Democracy, by Mukti Rijal (rn
29/08/2019)
Overhaul
Public School Education, Prem Khatry (rn
28/08/2019)
‘Need
to work with private sector for quality
education’ (ht 25/08/2019)
Risky
journey to school for lack of bridge (ht
25/08/2019)
Why
Nepal’s public schools have a poor report card:
A majority of public school teachers are
affiliated to political parties. This gives them
a defence against possible action if they fail
to perform their duties, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 22/08/2019)
Deschooling
education: Every class has students capable of
becoming singers, dancers, poets, athletes and
actors but our education system is discouraging
them every moment, by Anusa Thapa and Milan
Pandey (rep 22/08/2019)
Saraswati
Basic School taking loans to operate classes:
The amount provided by the municipality to run
the school is proving to be insufficient, by
Arjun Rajbanshi (kp 22/08/2019)
Technical
education in school offers earning while
learning (rep 22/08/2019)
Improving
The Quality Of Education, by Shak Bahadur
Budhathoki (rn 21/08/2019)
Familiarizing
children with local art, culture, lifestyle
through local curriculum, by Krishna Kisi
(rep 15/08/2019)
Deficits
In School Education, by Mukti Rijal (rn
15/08/2019)
Problems
with large class sizes in elementary and
secondary schools: Large class size is a
learning and social justice issue that has often
been overlooked, by Tom Robertson (kp
15/08/2019)
Province
3 to extend ‘One School, One Nurse’ programme to
119 community schools: Teachers, guardians, and
students alike have come together to request the
provincial government to launch the programme in
every community school in the province, by
Pratap Bista (kp 15/08/2019)
Government
prepares diet plan for community school midday
meal programme: The new guideline recommends
cutting off junk food and providing locally
produced food to children, by Arjun Poudel
(kp 14/08/2019)
Lack
of female-friendly toilets hits classes (ht
13/08/2019)
Creating
joy in reading: English teachers have to develop
skills to teach reading. They should research
and find out for themselves what works best for
their students in the contexts and situations
they are in, by Rishi Ram Paudyal (rep
11/08/2019)
A
typographic tale: Embarrassing mistakes in
textbooks reveal the sorry state of our
education system, by Deepak Thapa (kp
08/08/2019)
Students
fare poorly as they can’t comprehend Maths and
Nepali curricula, study shows: The government
report says students from the Dalit community
and Karnali Province are the worst performers,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 06/08/2019)
Telecom
regulator wants to equip 930 public high schools
with IT labs in six months: To achieve the goal,
the contractor has to install and commission the
laboratory at 39 high schools every week, by
Prahlad Rijal (kp 04/08/2019)
In
some colleges, students say teachers are going
through their phones: While students decry
invasion of privacy, teachers and staff say that
they only do it for the protection of their
students, by Sneha Dahal (kp 03/08/2019)
Merger
of community schools in Dhankuta leaves school
buildings abandoned: 22 community schools have
been merged in Dhankuta since the drive started
three years ago, by Ramesh Chandra Adhikari
(kp 03/08/2019)
Gender
stereotypes: Hamper social inclusion, by
Bina Jha (ht 02/08/2019)
Restructure
SSDP: In line with federalism, by Hari
Prasad Lamsal (ht 01/08/2019)
Students
at community schools deprived of education
facilities: The dropout rate in Dhanusha
district remains high as student-oriented
programmes have not been properly implemented,
by Shyam Sundar Shashi (kp 01/08/2019)
Education
project proving to be a boon, by Shyam Rai
(ht 31/07/2019)
Local
councils are adopting unique measures to improve
public school education: From recruiting younger
teachers and developing localised curriculum to
merging private and public schools, local
governments are taking drastic steps, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 29/07/2019), A
new lesson for all: The mayor of Changu Narayan
has adopted measures to improve public school
education which offers a sliver of hope (kp
30/07/2019)
Schools
in Bajhang resume as Yarsa picking season ends:
Students move to the highlands to collect
Yarsagumba for three months—from mid-April to
June-end—every year, leaving schools empty,
by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp 26/07/2019)
Students
having lower grades in any number of subjects
can take supplementary exams: Over three-fourths
of those who took the regular exams eligible for
the test, by Binod Ghimire (kp 24/07/2019)
Disabled
children out of the education system in Achham:
Enrolling students with special needs is just
one way to bring them into the system; keeping
them in school remains a bigger challenge,
by Menuka Dhungana (kp 22/07/2019)
School
introduces health insurance, by Mukti Prasad
Neupane (rep 21/07/2019)
Technology
friendly education in rural schools, by
Chhabilal Tiwari (rep 18/07/2019)
60
percent schools in Mahottari inundated, by
Mahesh Kumar Das (rep 18/07/2019)
Civic
awareness: It begins in school, by Mira
Gotame (ht 17/07/2019)
Lack
of land halts reconstruction of around 300
quake-ravaged schools: Officials seek change in
the existing building code for some schools on
case-by-case basis, by Binod Ghimire (kp
17/07/2019)
Students
in remote Jumla compelled to walk four hours to
school, by DB Budha (rep 13/07/2019)
The
last and least in Rautahat: Nepal’s least
literate district has seen little improvement in
its schools since local governments were elected,
by Sewa Bhattarai (nt 12/07/2019)
Community
schools in Dasharathchand run with minimum
number of students: Parents prefer to send their
wards to private schools, leaving government
schools with few students, by Tripti Shahi
(kp 11/07/2019)
The
learning network: How Kul Labs—an e-learning
platform with more than 200,000 monthly
users—is here to change how you view education
in Nepal, by Krishana Prasain (kp
08/07/2019) [see Kul
Labs website]
Dasharathchand
children attend schools in IndiaStudents prefer
to go to Indian schools, as they have to walk a
long distance to reach schools on the Nepali
side, by Tripti Shahi (kp 08/07/2019)
New
rules for effective examination system
(ht 08/07/2019)
Addressing
the learning crisis: Public sector officials,
workers and politicians should be required to
send their children to community schools, by
Shyam Dahal (kp 07/07/2019)
Reimagining
education: Students need to be trained to
challenge conventional wisdom and to create new
ideas. These skills can be garnered if students
are allowed free thought and taught questioning
skills, by Pradip Adhikari (rep 07/07/2019)
Physically
punishing students is ineffective, harmful, and
illegal but teachers continue to do it: Many
school teachers, and even parents, still believe
that physically disciplining students is
sometimes necessary, by Binod Ghimire (kp
06/07/2019)
Revamp
public schools: Dismissing the unqualified
teachers and recruiting fresh ones through a
highly selective appointment process will
improve the quality of education (ht
01/07/2019)
School
education system: Have role for assistant
principal, by Sanam Maskey (ht 01/07/2019)
Pupils
of a Dailekh school use umbrellas inside their
classrooms on rainy daysThe number of students
at Malika Secondary School has fallen by 20
percent because of poor state of the classrooms,
by Jyoti Katuwal (kp 27/06/2019)
Community
schools struggling with English medium, by
Bhim Chapagain (rep 25/06/2019)
How
schools are becoming easy target to fulfil
petty party interests: The trend has increased
as Netra Bikram Chand-led outfit
intensifies anti-government activities, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 23/06/2019)
Chepang
students in Dhirang suffer in the absence of
secondary schoolAspiring students from Dhirang
and surrounding villages receive no support to
pursue higher studies, by Pratap Bista (kp
21/06/2019)
Private
schools in a Rupandehi municipality raise school
feesParents complain that authorities
responsible for monitoring school fees are mum
on the matter, by Madhav Dhungana (kp
17/06/2019)
Students
at a Janakpur basic school go to school—not to
study but to teach: Two months since the start
of the academic session, students at Shree Basic
School have yet to get textbooks and hence they
teach their juniors, by Santosh Singh (kp
16/06/2019)
Dalit
school struggling in lack of resources, by
Kamlesh Thakur (rep 16/06/2019)
Children
in storm-affected districts unable to go to
school, by Dil Bahadur Chhatyal and Pushpa
Raj Joshi (rep 16/06/2019)
Bend
it like Baba: Yoga should be included in
the curriculum because it sharpens the
students’ mind, by Thaneshwor Chalise (kp
16/06/2019)
Mandarin
made mandatory in many schools: ‘Chinese embassy
footing teachers’ bill’, by Sabitri Dhakal
(ht 15/06/2019)
Chhaupadi
affects teaching-learning (ht 13/06/2019)
On
education, keep your promise (rep
10/06/2019)
Local
governments cause delay in data collection of
out-of-school children: Study aims to find out
reasons for not enrolling children in schools,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 09/07/2019)
Do
not fail students in WASH: Nepal must ensure
progress in water, sanitation and health
continues, so children stay in school, by
Marty Logan (nt 07/2019)
Keeping
up with Asia: Investing in children is the best
investment a country can make, by Ned Olney
(kp 06/06/2019)
Siladhuni
students walk for six hours to go to school and
come back home: Students face hardship, as there
are no other secondary schools in the area
(kp 03/06/2019)
Gorkha
women learn to read and write: Women in Namjung
village have joined the adult literacy class run
by the government’s community learning centre,
by Hariram Uprety (kp 02/06/2019)
Education
budget courts criticism: The amount earmarked is
not enough to achieve the Sustainable
Development Goals in Education, educationists
say, by Binod Ghimire (kp 31/05/2019)
Sisterhood
of students: A new approach allows older female
students to support younger ones to complete
schooling, by Priyanka Budathoki (nt
31/05/2019)
Education
gets 10.68pc of budget share, half of what
government had pledged: Finance minister has
added some new programmes but without adequate
funding, by Binod Ghimire (kp 30/05/2019)
Children
skip classes to sell kafal, by Janak KC (rep
27/05/2019)
Oli’
statement supporting private school operators
draws criticism: Members of a commission which
has suggested turning private schools into
trusts say the prime minister must stop
making unconstitutional remarks, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 26/05/2019) [Providing free and equal quality education
to all children is one of the outstanding tasks
of the government! It must not be downhanded to
private business enterprises!], Rukum
local unit decides not to issue licence to
establish private schools, by Hari Gautam
(kp 26/05/2019)
On
schooling, un-schooling: Can we revisit schools
as a space to rebuild communities?, by
Ayushma Regmi (kp 25/05/2019)
Budgeting
for education: Government needs to allocate more
funding towards the education sector (kp
24/05/2019)
Sanitary
pads bring down girl students’ absenteeism
(ht 24/05/2019)
Sixth
Kantipur HISSAN Education Fair kicks off at
Bhrikutimandap in the Capital (kp
24/05/2019)
Starting
Nepal’s green school movement: Surkhet has a
new, community focused eco-friendly school that
could be a model for others, by Sheilin Teo
(nt 24/05/2019)
South
Asia has made progress in education enrolment
but quality remains a challengeGirls outnumber
boys in the school system in most of the
countries in the region, including Nepal, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 23/05/2019)
Retain
girls in school: A good school is a step towards
reducing school drop-outs among girls and
postponing their marriage until the marriageable
age (ht 20/05/2019)
On
education, government looks generous with words
but stingy with funds: Despite pledges to
improve quality of education, government
unlikely to increase budget for the sector,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 19/05/2019)
Lack
of proper buildings affectsstudents in
Kanchanpur schools, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp
19/05/2019)
‘One
ward, one model school programme’ starts in Ilam,
by Biplav Bhattarai (kp 18/05/2019)
Can
a bus change the way children are taught in
Nepal?, by Amish Raj Mulmi (kp 17/05/2019)
Ministry
'piloting' school curricula without cabinet nod,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 11/05/2019)
A
school with just four students, by Lokendra
Khanal (rep 11/05/2019)
The
role of religion in education: Religions should
help individuals achieve spiritual heights; they
must not be allowed to impede an individual’s
growth, by Pramod Mishra (kp 09/05/2019)
Future
of education: Public needs to see the education
reform report so that larger discourse may begin
(kp 08/05/2019)
Rolpa
schools struggling in lack of funds, by
Dinesh Subedi (rep 08/05/2019)
Education
panel members put pressure on PM’s office to
make public its report: Government has ignored
even a right to information plea, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 07/05/2019)
Majority
of girls in Achham district out of school system,
by Menuka Dhungana (kp 06/05/2019)
Critical
Thinking In Education, by Kushal Pokharel
(rn 04/05/2019)
Nepali
Muslims on the margins: Madrasa education needs
to be improved to uplift Nepal’s Muslim
community, by Prakriti Kandel (nt
03/05/2019)
Private
school
operators decry local governments’ enrolment
rule: They say forcing public office holders to
send their children to public schools is against
right to freedom, by Binod Ghimire (kp
02/05/2019)
Continuous
assessment system: From paper to pedagogy,
by Dronashish Neupane (ht 02/05/2019)
In
this Dhanusha village, people close their
children’s school to host wedding parties,
by Santosh Singh (kp 02/05/2019)
Schools
shut in Bajhang as teachers, students head to
highlands (rep 01/05/2019)
Govt
yet to dispatch 5.5 million copies of school
textbooks to districts (ht 29/04/2019)
Siyari
Rural Municipality implements mandatory tiffin
rule for primary school students, by
Mohammad Habib (rep 28/04/2019)
Education
ministry
directs schools to collect data on out-of-school
children: The move is an extension of the
enrolment drive that aims to leave no children
behind, by Binod Ghimire (kp 28/04/2019)
Local
bodies abuse law in school licensing (ht
27/04/2019)
Enrolment
drive for Chepang kids (kp 26/04/2019)
Challenges
For Private Schools, by Mukti Rijal (rn
25/04/2019)
Rebuilding
of
schools after quake faces funding gap of Rs 27
billion: Thousands of children will be studying
in makeshift structures for a few more years,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 23/04/2019), Reconstructed
schools lack toilets (ht 23/04/2019), Quake-hit
school buildings yet to be reconstructed in
Dolakha (ht 24/04/2019)
Community
schools
hike fees after becoming English medium:
Guardians complain of the hike, saying they
cannot afford to send their wards to schools,
by Binod Bhandari (kp 23/04/2019)
Ailments
of
education: Almost all teachers and professors
expect high level of respect from students but
they don’t show respect to their students,
by Rishi Ram Paudyal (rep 21/04/2019)
Enrolment
drive
a ritual if poor families don’t get support,
experts say: Stakeholders stress need to ensure
opportunity costs for extremely marginalised
communities so that they can send their children
to school, by Binod Ghimire (kp 21/04/2019),
Ministers
ignore wards undereducational guardianship,
by Binu Timsina (kp 21/04/2019) [Leading politicians only
love the show; they never mean what they say!!]
Palpa
local units implement plan to turn private
schools into community bodies, by Madhav
Aryal (kp 19/04/2019)
Free
uniforms, materials to attract students, by
Amrita Anmol (kp 19/04/2019)
School
enrolment drive ineffective in most districts
across the country (kp 18/04/2019)
Schools
lack
money to buy textbooks as local governments fail
to disburse funds: Local level officials blame
unavailability of data on students for the
failure to release the money, but some schools
disagree, by Binod Ghimire (kp 17/04/2019)
Private
schools in Parbat increase fees by 25%, by
Chhavi Lal Tiwari (rep 15/04/2019), Monitor
fees of private schools (rep 16/04/2019)
Community
school denies students their exam results for
failing to pay fees, by Narahari Sapkota
(rep 14/04/2019)
KMC
fixes tuition fee for private schools (ht
11/04/2019), KMC
hikes school fees by 27%, by Ruby Rauniyar
(rep 11/04/2019)
Continuous
assessment: Fundamental to pedagogy, by
Dronashish Neupane (ht 10/04/2019)
Public
schools in Karnali state are yet to receive
textbooks, by Chandani Kathayat and Bhim
Bahadur Singh (kp 09/04/2019)
MoFAGA
clears confusion on school meal programme
(ht 08/04/2019)
Reforming
education: Those who vowed to transform
education system are in power today. But they
have not done much, by Sandip Neupane (rep
04/04/2019)
Transformation
in
teaching: For realizing the changes, our
universities must shift some weight of teaching
to learning, knowledge to skills, exams to
diversified assessment and degrees to
disciplinary identity, among others, by
Sudha Tripathi, Shyam Sharma and Surendra Subedi
(rep 03/04/2019)
Disaster-hit
students in dilemma as Class X board
examinations approach, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht
03/04/2019)
Substandard
infrastructure in Jajarkot schools affects
students, by Bhim Bahadur Singh (kp
31/03/2019)
‘Company-run
schools should be made service-based
institutions’ (ht 27/03/2019)
More
daughters
are enrolled in public schools while sons are
sent to private ones: Even though girls
outnumber boys in the 10th grade national level
exam, discrimination is clearly visible, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 23/03/2019)
Girl
students receive bicycles in Rautahat, by
Shiva Puri (kp 16/03/2019)
Foreign
investment to be allowed in education
consultancies, by Binod Ghimire (kp
16/03/2019)
When
freezing
cold shuts down classes, these schools migrate
south for the winter: For years, two schools in
a remote rural municipality in Upper Mustang had
no option but to close for months during winter.
This year, for the first time, they moved down
the mountains to Tanahun and conducted regular
classes, by Tsering Ngodup Lama (kp
09/03/2019)
Many
children from Dalit, marginalised groups in
Siraha are still out of school, by Bharat
Jarghamagar (kp 06/03/2019)
Out
of the classroom: Service learning seems to be a
viable option and worth being taken up by
schools, by Dronashish Neupane (kp
06/03/2019)
More
than
the birds and the bees: Schools in Nepal need to
teach sexuality in a comprehensive way and set
up mechanisms to address sexual abuse in the
community, by Niranjan Kunwar (kp
02/03/2019)
Locally
Contextual Education, by Kushal Pokharel (rn
02/03/2019)
Kids
from marginalised communities deprived of lunch
allowance (ht 02/03/2019)
63,000
students of five mountain districts yet to get
textbooks (rep 02/03/2019)
Schools
in Dhading village have computers but no
electricity, by Sarita Shrestha (rep
02/03/2019)
Local
governments working to improve quality in
community schools (kp 01/03/2019)
Schools
without
quality: We have a shared responsibility to
improve education quality by rooting out ills
that plague both government and private schools,
by Chandra Mani Bimali (rep 28/02/2019)
Eight
per cent locals illiterate in Lamjung (ht
26/02/2019)
Girls'
education still not a priority for Jumla
families, by DB Budha (rep 25/02/2019)
Overhauling
education
system: The biggest shortcoming of our education
system is that we have not been able to engage
the students. At times, our classrooms feel like
jails to students, by Milan Pandey (rep
25/02/2019)
Students
crushing stones to manage educational expenses
(rep 25/02/2019)
CM
Gurung flays existing education system (ht
24/02/2019)
What
ails
our education? We cannot expect much from the
teachers who passed their exams by reading the
guide books and guess papers, or by
cheating, by Rishi Ram Paudyal (rep 23/02/2019)
Multilingual
Tuesdays:
Whether they start a Multilingual Tuesday
program or one called Matribhasha Mangalbar, it
is high time that private schools advanced
multilingual competence among their students,
by Shyam Sharma (rep 21/02/2019)
Back
to school: Providing midday meals is a step
towards curbing drop-outs in schools (kp
18/02/2019), School
stops mid-day meal, Chepang students quit school,
by Sabita Shrestha (rep 18/02/2019)
Mid-day
meals attract children to schools in Achham,
by Menuka Dhungana (kp 17/02/2019)
Talk
about it: Education on sexual reproductive
health needs further attention and investment in
Nepal, by Dev Raj Acharya (kp 17/02/2019)
Many
children in Tarai districts of Province 5 are
still out of school (kp 15/02/2019)
SEE
starting from March 24: NEB to conduct exam this
time too (ht 14/02/2019)
Think
beyond
English: Overemphasis on English in Nepal’s
schools at the cost of local languages and
culture is detrimental, linguistically,
cognitively and psychologically, to overall
development of children, by Laxmi Prasad
Ojha (rep 14/02/2019)
Teaching
students: The right input needed, by
Dronashish Neupane (ht 13/02/2019)
Creating
smart
schools: No nation has progressed fast in terms
of technology adoption when its school going
children are not fully integrated to
technological developments, by Hitesh Karki
(rep 12/02/2019)
Millions
of students affected by Chand-led Maoist party’s
strike, by Binod Ghimire (kp 08/02/2019)
KMC
to implement local curriculum (kp
05/02/2019)
Education
Planning and Lapses, by Prem Khatry (rn
05/02/2019)
Establishing
common ground: Consider community gardening for
education, by Umesh Raj Regmi (kp
03/02/2019)
‘Commercial’
education must come to an end: Baskota (kp
03/02/2019) [Without
fundamental improvement of public schools by the
state??], Rolpa
community schools losing students to private
schools, by Dinesh Subedi (rep 03/02/2019) [Obviously, the Maoists'
insurgency has been very effective in their core
area or has this district been forgotten by the
former revolutionaries?]
In
education, Kathmandu wants to hold sway over
local governments, by Binod Ghimire (kp
03/02/2019) [This is
typical for the anti-federalist central elite!]
Local
governments developing localised school
curriculum, by Binod Ghimire (kp 31/01/2019)
Saving
our
schools: As the country moves forward with the
slogan of ‘build back better,’ it is important
to consider 16 indicators of minimum school
safety, by Sangeeta Rijal and Pratistha
Pyakurel (rep 31/01/2019)
Education
Taking New Turn, by Mukti Rijal (rn
31/01/2019)
Learn
to unlearn: Tara Westover’s Educated
has important lessons for Nepal, by Pramod
Mishra (kp 31/01/2019)
Jajarkot
children still out of schools (ht
28/01/2019) [The former
Maoist party has long been in power in a leading
position, but obviously nothing has changed in
one of the initial districts of its uprising!]
Local
level reps visit schools to discuss problems
(ht 28/01/2019)
Soft
skills: All what matters in education, by
Nirjala Poudel (ht 28/01/2019)
Implementing
Girl Education Programmes, by Anamika Mishra
(rn 26/01/2019)
Education
Commission report draws mixed opinions (kp
26/01/2019)
A
school too far: Through a child rights
perspective, the school merging programme goes
against the right to education, by Nilima
Rai (kp 24/01/2019)
HLEC
recommends turning private schools into
non-profits by 10 yrs (rep 16/01/2019)
Fall
of
private schools: Private schools missed an
opportunity to demonstrate that “private” and
“school” could go together in socially
responsible ways, by Bishal Thapa (rep
15/01/2019), In
defense
of private schools: Why can’t an entrepreneur
open a private school and make profit in the
process? Why don’t we let the market decide if
it wants private schools?, by Mukesh Khanal
(rep 15/01/2019)
Community
school charges students exam fees against the
law, by Lokendra Khanal (rep 12/01/2019)
Good
fellows: Students become teachers to inject a
new sense of commitment in government schools,
by Prakriti Kandel (nt 11/01/2019)
Class
struggle, by Prakriti Kandel (nt 11/01/2019)
Government
to re-launch ‘Literate Nepal’ campaign (kp
09/01/2019)
Don’t
write this one off: Taking bold policy measures
to uplift the quality of education has remained
long overdue, by Kushal Pokharel (kp
09/01/2019)
Schools
have 10 years to convert into trust: Private
school operators object to the move, warn of
protest, by Binod Ghimire (kp 09/01/2019)
Exam
paper in question for using repealed Nepali
grammar rules, by Bibhu Luitel (kp
08/01/2019)
Private
schools on target: The ruling party should work
on improving the wider education system, by
Achyut Wagle (kp 08/01/2019)
Students
face exams without completing annual course
(kp 07/01/2019)
Writ
challenges Centre’s circular on education laws,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 06/01/2019)
Students
dropping out of school in lack of birth
certificate, by Dinesh Subedi (rep
06/01/2019)
India,
China yet to rebuild school buildings, by
Rajendra Manandhar (kp 03/01/2019)
Reconstruction
of Kavre schools to be complete by next year
(kp 03/01/2019)
The
strange case of a school with only one teacher
and a student, by Sher Bahadur Jero (rep
03/01/2019)
Most
people of Banke illiterate, still depend on
thumbprint (ht 03/01/2019), Literacy
rate in Banke remains bleak (kp
04/01/2019)
Hostel
comes as a big relief for Chepang students,
by Sabita Shrestha (rep 02/01/2019)
Abolish
private
education? To truly counter arguments about
abolishing it, private sector education must
rethink its socioeconomic roles in the new
national context, creating robust models of
faculty development, by Shyam Sharma (rep
02/01/2019)
Private
school operators object to Education
Commission’s report, by Binod Ghimire (kp
01/01/2019)
Private
schools warn of disaster if govt converts them
into community schools, by Ruby Rauniyar
(rep 27/12/2018)
The
sorry state of education in Rolpa, by Dinesh
Subedi (rep 25/12/2018)
Lack
of disabled-friendly infrastructures mars
education sector, by Shuvam Dhungana (rep
24/12/2018)
Community
Mobilisation in Education, by Kushal
Pokharel (rn 22/12/2018)
Govt
yet to fill the void of ‘janabadi’ education,
by Dinesh Subedi (rep 22/12/2018)
Children
being taught on open grounds to escape cold
(rep 21/12/2018)
Schools
closed for three months in Manang (ht
21/12/2018)
One
teacher for whole school, by Suresh Yadav
(rep 20/12/2018)
Students
likely to face textbook shortage yet again
(rep 20/12/2018), Give
them books on time (rep 23/12/2018)
School
dropout rate high in Rolpa, by Dinesh Subedi
(rep 19/12/2018)
Community
schools campaign against junk food (rep
16/12/2018)
The
Science of Learning: Nepal’s schools need to add
STEM-based instruction to prepare the country
for the future, by Prakriti Kandel (nt
14/12/2018)
Uniform
dress code plan for city schools (kp
07/12/2018), Missing
the forest: The government should focus on
educational quality, not clothes (kp
12/12/2018) [!!]
Banskota
says 600 public schools to go digital soon
(kp 02/12/2018)
School
Sector Development Programme: Education
Ministry to set up mechanism for
accountability, by Binod Ghimire (kp
02/12/2018)
Education
In New Order, by Mukti Rijal (rn 29/11/2018)
In
lack of school nearby, Chepang kids dropping out
of schools, by Sabita Shrestha (rep
29/11/2018)
An
exemplary school run by women, by Shumsher
Bikram GC (rep 29/11/2018)
Mid-day
meal adds number of students in schools, by
Shanker Bikram GC (rep 18/11/2018)
Usefulness
of Civic Education, by Dev Raj Dahal (rn
27/11/2018)
Gender-friendly
toilets improve girls attendance at schools,
by Bhagwati Lama (rep 27/11/2018)
Curriculum
panel faces criticism over its subject design:
Health, Population and Environment relegated to
optional subject, by Nayak Paudel (kp
25/11/2018), Ministries’
lack of coordination hits technical education
(kp 25/11/2018)
Upper
Dolpa schools closed for six months (kp
25/11/2018)
Talkot
students study in open after landslide destroys
school, by Basanta Pratap Singh (kp
25/11/2018)
Creative
destruction: Reform in education, a critical
sector for development, remains bypassed (kp
23/11/2018)
New
bill
to fix scholarship terms renegers: Federal
education Bill proposes revoking passport if a
student refuses to serve nation after
studying on government grant, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 18/11/2018)
Authority
rebuilds 75pc damaged schools (kp
17/11/2018) [related to Sindhupalchok only]
Jumla
schools without teachers even after holidays are
over, by DB Budha (rep 13/11/2018)
Making
Local Education Policies, by Shak Bahadur
Budhathoki (rn 11/11/2018)
ICT
in education: If teachers can use social media
sites, they can use educational web applications
too, by Sagun Shrestha (kp 07/11/2018)
Educate
girls & women: For a prosperous community,
by Pushpa Priya (ht 07/11/2018)
The
birds
and the bees: Sex education has so far been
almost non-existent in Nepal’s schools, but
there is a growing awareness for its need,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 03/11/2018)
Prosperity
dreams: Education is the key, by Ganesh Bist
and Dinesh Khanal (ht 31/10/2018)
Few
schools imparting education in mother tongues
(ht 28/10/2018)
Importance
of Physics Education in Nepal, by Rudra
Aryal, Hunter Francoeur and Nabin K Malakar (rn
27/10/2018)
Road
expansion leaves students of Rajarshi School
without classrooms, by Shyam Sundar Shashi
(kp 26/10/2018)
Teach
for
All conference starts in Capital today: Teach
for Nepal to share success stories of
transforming public education in the country
(kp 24/10/2018)
Cost
of
private education::It does not matter how much a
promoter is earning as long as s/he provides
excellent education while also fulfilling social
obligations, by Simone Galimberti (rep
13/10/2018)
Donor
support to education wanes, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 11/10/2018)
National
Campaign for Education urges free schooling for
children (kp 10/10/2018)
Disenfranchised
citizen: Every citizen has the right to a good
education, even the visually impaired, by
Parbishi Mishra (kp 03/10/2018)
Understanding
Private Sector Education, by Shak Bahadur
Budhathoki (rn 30/09/2018)
Mother
tongue course in decline (kp 30/09/2018)
Defying
rules, private schools dominate national
education, by Binod Ghimire (kp 28/09/2018)
Bridging
learning deficit: Educationally we have
been a terrible under-performer (kp
25/09/2018)
Khotang
community school delivers top results, by
Damn Rai (rep 24/09/2018)
Learning
barriers: Most inclusive schools in Nepal do not
have enough teaching-learning materials for
students with disability, by Biplob Acharya
(rep 23/09/2018)
Three
classes being run from a single room (ht
23/09/2018)
Sorry
state of community schools: Mushrooming private
schools leave community schools on verge of
closure, by Nagendra Upadhyay (rep
22/09/2018)
Government
widens reach but pays little attention to
quality, by Binod Ghimire (kp 19/09/2018)
Creative
Education For Children, by Dev Raj Dahal (rn
18/09/2018)
Inclusive
education: Dismantling the barriers, by
Biplob Acharya (ht 18/09/2018)
PABSON
threatens protest against new education law
(rep 18/09/2018), Heed
the law or face action: Minister to PABSON
(rep 18/09/2018)
Public
Schools Facing Unpredictable Future, by Prem
Khatry (rn 18/09/2018)
For
Thamis, education is a luxury that is still
beyond their reach, by Manju Upreti (rep
17/09/2018)
Scholarships
for up to 15 pc students at private schools proposed
(rep 15/09/2018)
Disabled
children in Nepal facing barriers to quality
education: HRW (ht 15/09/2017)
Principal
rents out classrooms forcing students to study under a
tree, by Suresh Yadav (rep 11/09/2018)
Computers
handed over to Khotang model schools (rep
11/09/2018)
Cent
per cent school enrolment in Dhangadimai Municipality (ht 09/09/2018)
Computer
course in Khotang school woos students, by
Daman Rai (rep 08/09/2018)
National
education day: Ministry plans Green Revolution
Campaign (kp 05/09/2018)
Status
Of Teaching-Learning In Nepal, by Shak
Bahadur Budhathoki (rn 05/09/2018)
Call
to revise bill on compulsory and free education
(kp 31/08/2018)
School
for Chepang kids with modern facilities, by
Sarita Shrestha (rep 28/08/2018)
Govt
reintroduces Math in Bio-Group of Grade 11 &
12 (rep 28/08/2018)
Government
urged to introduce special education for
children with autism (ht 25/08/2018)
Class
struggle: Post-earthquake outmigration means low
enrollment in rebuilt schools, by Prakriti
Kandel (nt 24/08/2018)
Education
policies: Why they fail in Nepal?, by Shak
Bahadur Budhathoki (ht 24/08/2018)
Pupils
take risky cableway to school in Kurintar,
Chitwan, by Hariram Uprety (kp 23/08/2018)
Education
bill drops free enrolment at private schools for
25 pc students, by Ashok Dahal (rep
22/08/2018), Bill
on education contradicts spirit of constitution
, by Binod Ghimire (kp 23/08/2018),
New
bill on education provisions scholarship for 10
per cent students in private schools (ht
23/08/2018)
True
education: Need of the hour, by Ram Prasad
Marasini (ht 21/08/2018)
Children
compelled to cross raging monsoon river to get
to school, by Narhari Sapkota (rep
19/08/2018)
Thinking
about educational leadership: Educational
leadership is fundamentally different from other
forms of leadership at its core, it is a
leadership philosophy built upon the belief of
realising the potential of others, by Pranab
Man Singh (kp 18/08/2018)
400
students of Nalgad unable to go to school as
flood washes way bridges, by Janak KC (rep
18/08/2018)
The
obsession over grades, by Cilla Khatry (rep
17/08/2018)
Education
in federal Nepal: What are challenges ahead?,
by Shiba Datta Gnawali (ht 16/08/2018)
Reforming
School Enrollment Campaign, by Shak Bahadur
Budhathoki (rn 15/08/2018)
Local
govts failing on education (rep 12/08/2018)
‘Local
units performing poorly on school education’
(rep 10/08/2018)
School
fee hike revocation deal not implemented
(rep 09/08/2018)
Municipality
bans mobile phone, junk food in schools, by
Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep 06/08/2018)
‘English’
zones
in Nepali schools: Such zones demoralise
students, dangerously suppressing their creative
enthusiasm in inventing ideas in language,
by Abhi Subedi (kp 05/08/2018)
Transforming
learning process through u-learning in community
schools, by Madhusudan Guragain (rep
05/08/2018)
Landslides
keep kids away from school, by Anish Tiwari
(kp 03/08/2018)
Education
In Federalism, by Mukti Rijal (rn
02/08/2018)
976
classrooms await reconstruction in Gorkha,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 31/07/2018)
Back
to
nature: Children should be taught subjects like
“Moral Value” and “Yoga and Spirituality”
throughout their schooling years, by Ganesh
Poudel (rep 27/07/2018)
Educational
Decentralisation And Corruption, by Shak
Bahadur Budhathoki (rn 22/07/2018)
School
closed for two days after students start
fainting, by Bishnu Prasad Devkota (rep
22/07/2018)
Spare
the rod: There
are better ways of disciplining unruly students
than using physical punishment, by Umesh Raj
Regmi and George W. Holden (kp 22/07/2018)
Children
in Province 7 still rely on tuins to go to
school (rep 21/07/2018)
12th
Ecan fair kicks off (kp 20/07/2018)
Reform
school education: Formative assessment over
summative assessment in schools is the need of
the hour, by Chirinjibi Niroula (kp
17/07/2018)
Bank
shifted to school building, students in tents,
by Ramesh Khatiwada (rep 17/07/2018), Locals
protest decision to rent out school building
(ht 18/07/2018)
5th
Kathmandu Post education fair: Edu Con to
feature over 100 exhibitors (kp 05/07/2018),
Fifth
Kathmandu Post Edu Con opens (kp
07/07/2018), More
than 15,000 visit Edu Fair on second day (kp
08/07/2018), Fifth
Edu Con concludes with overwhelming
participation (kp 09/07/2018)
Private
schools to defy educational strike (ht
02/07/2018)
School
of thought: Our education system unconditionally
conditions us to be conformists, by Somy
Paudyal (kp 01/07/2018)
Construction
of school buildings in limbo (ht 30/06/2018)
Yarsa
collectors return home after a month (rep
30/06/2018)
Public
Education Loses Trust, by Mukti Rijal (rn
28/06/2018)
Textbook
shortage
in rural Achham: A teacher says textbook
shortage is a perennial problem that the
government has failed to address, by Menuka
Dhungana (kp 25/06/2018) [The continued inaction by the governments
is a grave violation of the children's
funamental rights!!]
Sex
education
for children: Adolescents’ sexual health
knowledge and understanding is influenced by a
variety of factors. Sex education should include
all these factors, by Dev Raj Acharya (rep
25/06/2018)
Test
New Curriculum For Sound Results, by
Chiranjibi Niroula (rn 24/06/2018)
Quality
in education: What do we mean by qualitative
education? And who is accountable for ensuring
high standards?, by Niranjan Kunwar (kp
23/06/2018)
Mid-day
meal improves attendance of Kumal students,
by Mukti Prasad Neupane (rep 23/06/2018)
Rs
125b donor project ‘watering’ down school
curricula: Stakeholders suspect foul play to
undermine value of Nepali education, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 21/06/2018)
Yoga
in schools: Helps kids with anxiety, by
Puskar Raj Pant (ht 21/06/2018)
Lack
of land stalls school rebuilding in hills
(kp 20/06/2018)
A
boarding school becomes a boon for children in
Manang, by Kisaan Sangit Nepali (rep
19/06/2018)
What's
new in school: Some stakeholders argue that the
government has changed the curriculum in haste,
by Umesh Raj Regmi (kp 17/06/2018)
School
Education at Local Level, by Mukti Rijal (rn
14/06/2018)
Sexuality
and school: Most curricula today do little to
combat sexism and sexuality-based discrimination,
by Ayush Kumar Shah (kp 10/06/2018)
Teachers
concerned about move to make maths optional
(ht 10/06/2018)
School
textbooks worth Rs 300 million printed by JEMC
unsold, by Ujjwal Satyal (ht 04/06/2018), Play
by
the book: Millions of copies of textbooks
printed by JEMC have been shelved, thanks to
lack of coordination between govt agencies (ht
05/06/2018)
Miserable
condition of school in education minister's
election constituency, by Mahesh Kumar Das
(rep 04/06/2018)
Over
300,000 new students enrolled (ht
02/06/2018), Enrollment
drive fails to bring 72,000 children to school
(rep 02/06/2018)
NCF
envisions integrated curriculum up to Grade III
(t 02/06/2018)
Education
budget
fails to match government’s lofty goals:
Healthcare receives major boost with a
substantial increase of 44pc to Rs 56.41 billion
(kp 30/05/2018)
For
Quality Public Education, by Prem Khatry (rn
29/05/2018)
Madi
municipality to merge schools for quality
education, by Sabita Shrestha (rep
29/05/2018)
Samata
School running classes sans permission (ht
29/05/2018)
‘Plan
education
expos in all states’: Parents and students
recommend organising education fairs all over
Nepal to counsel and present information to
citizens (kp 27/05/2018)
Teaching
with
technology: Many teachers who are currently
teaching computer in public schools grew up in
an era when computers were virtually
non-existent, by Hitesh Karki (rep
27/05/2018)
School
students of various hill, tarai districts yet to
get all textbooks (rep 27/05/2018)
Schools
closed as yarsa picking season begins (ht
26/05/2018)
Principal
dragged to court for not enrolling Dalit student
(ht 26/05/2018)
Schools
switch to farming to pay teachers’ salaries,
by DB Buda (rep 26/05/2018)
Kantipur
Hissan Edu Fair draws large crowd (kp
25/05/2018), Students
and parents praise education fair (kp
26/05/2018), Kantipur-Hissan
Edu
Fair a big draw: More than 200,000 people,
including students and their parents, visited
the fair at Bhrikutimandap (kp
28/05/2018)
‘Nepal’s
education
needs major policy reforms’: There is no need of
certificates or degrees that do not qualify
students for jobs, interview with PM KP Oli
(kp 24/05/2018)
CDC
prepares draft of new curriculum (ht
23/05/2018)
Pokharel
vows to rebuild all schools in two years (kp
22/05/2018) [??]
Govt
not implementing deal to scrap fee hike by
private schools (rep 22/05/2018)
Schools
empty as students head toward hills to collect
yarsa, by DB Buda (rep 21/05/2018)
Local
level reps accuse education ministry of being
unsupportive (ht 19/05/2018)
School
level
not to have multiple disciplines: Optional
subjects to replace Science, Management,
Humanities and Education streams; There will be
more than50 subjects in each grade to choose
from (kp 16/05/2018), School
of thought: Education reforms are necessary to
create a new generation capable of thinking
flexibly (kp 17/05/2018)
Improving
School Education, by Hira Bahadur Thapa (rn
11/05/2018)
Regulating
Private Schools, by Mukti Rijal (rn
10/05/2018)
Research
reveals $1 investment in school meals has impact
of $5.2 in economy (ht 09/05/2018)
Free
education
to cost threefold: Rs197.84 billion is required
for school sector annually, up from the current
allocation of Rs71.89 billion (kp
08/05/2018), South
Asia needs to boost primary education: UN
Children’s Fund says 30m children denied
education (kp 08/05/2018)
Govt
working
to break syndicates in education, health sector:
PM; PM Oli reiterates the government’s
commitment to transforming the society and
leading the country towards prosperity (kp
07/05/2018)
Private
schools finally agree to refund hiked fees
(rep 07/05/2018)
Education
for
all: Guardianship and special assistance to
vulnerable families started by the Prime
Minister marks a noble beginning but it won’t be
enough, by Simone Galimberti (rep
06/05/2018)
Schools
running classes without permission (ht
04/05/2018)
School
in bid to promote Dura language in Lamjung
(ht 03/05/2018)
School
Admission: Myths & Reality, by Prem
Khatry (rn 01/05/2018)
Students
swarm uplands to pick Yarsagumba, by Bishnu
Devkota (rep 01/05/2018)
Fee
Hike in Private Schools and Protests, by
Nandalal Tiwari (rn 30/04/2018)
Schools
using English for instruction (ht
30/04/2018) [related to Dhankuta]
Govt
to introduce new policy to improve public
schools (rep 27/04/2018)
Schools
shift classes to concrete building from
makeshift tents, by Manju Upreti (rep
26/04/2018)
Sluggish
rebuilding hits thousands of students: Govt yet
to raise half the funds necessary to rebuild
over 5,500 schools, by Binod Ghimire (kp
23/04/2018), Quake-hit
schools still await reconstruction (ht
23/04/2018)
1,595
students still out of school in Siraha, by
Mithilesh Yadav (rep 23/04/2018)
Female
teachers’ children perform best (kp
22/04/2018)
Forming
SMCs not the duty of local levels: MoFAGA
(ht 22/04/2018)
Cost
of education: Education in Nepal is a struggle
in every step. From enrolling in the primary
school to deciding the career for lifetime,
there are hurdles everywhere, by Resha
Makaju (rep 22/04/2018)
For
poor, school enrolment campaigns do not matter,
by Suresh Yadav (rep 22/04/2018)
Students
head toward highlands for picking Yarsa, by
Jagat Khadka (rep 22/04/2018)
Jantedunga
Rural Municipality schools to use English as
medium of instruction (ht 21/04/2018)
Schools
give no discounts on books to parents, by
Ayam Shrestha (rep 21/04/2018)
Ministry
report slams falling level of school education,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 20/04/2018), Support
enrolment: Local governments need to be
strengthened so that they can strengthen
education sector (kp 20/04/2018)
No
charade,
please: Our leaders rather than taking
guardianship of a few children should focus on
implementing effective measures to improve
school enrolment (ht 20/04/2018)
‘50
percent children out of school in Province 2’,
by Abadhesh Kumar Jha (kp 19/04/2018)
More
students switching to community schools from
private schools, by Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep
19/04/2018)
Province
7 CM enrols his daughter in community school,
by Arjun Shah (kp 19/04/2018), Make
our
schools great again!: CM Bhatta is right when he
says that the quality of public schools will
improve only if our thulo mancheys also
send their kids to such schools, by Guffadi
(kp 21/04/2018)
Edu
Ministry pressed to deploy staff to local units
(kp 19/04/2018)
Over
5,000 children out of school in Kapilvastu,
by Manoj Paudel (kp 18/04/2018)
Education
minister unveils 3-month work plan (ht
16/04/2018)
Children
of brick kiln workers deprived of education
(ht 15/04/2018)
Australia
Awards to train 21 Nepalis in inclusive
education (kp 14/04/2018)
Textbooks
not dispatched to govt schools on time this year
too, by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 14/04/2018)
School
construction projects in limbo (ht
13/04/2018)
Education
sector’s reform: Ministry unveils five-year road
map (kp 12/04/2018)
Bill
proposes
Grade VIII education threshold: Adds that anyone
less educated than that will not be eligible to
seek govt jobs or contest elections after 2027,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 12/04/2018)
Girls
miss schools during menstruation (kp
07/04/2018), Girls
skipping school during menstruation (ht
07/04/2018)
School
enrolment campaign starts on April 15 (kp
07/04/2018), Announce
incentives for students, local levels told
(ht 07/04/2018), Govt
has no real plan for 7.7 pc children not in
school (rep 07/04/2018), ‘Government
focusing on enrolment campaign’ (ht
09/04/2018), DEO
launches campaign to bring all children to
school (rep 09/04/2018), Children
in school: There is need of a comprehensive
study to ascertain why so many children still do
not go to school (ht 10/04/2018), Cabinet
propels school education campaign (kp
12/04/2018)
Cabinet
extends
education offices term: The government wants
smooth transistion of educational system to
local bodies from District Education Offices
(kp 05/04/2018), DEOs
to remain in existence till July (ht
05/04/2018)
Deliver
Quality Education, by Mukti Rijal (rn
05/04/2018)
Quake-ravaged
school buildings yet to be reconstructed (kp
02/04/2018)
Feminizing
education:
Are job markets in Nepal designed to serve the
needs of female candidates? What should we do to
cope with possible challenges?, by Rajendra
Manandhar (rep 01/04/2018)
Jugal
Rural Municipality school finds way to overcome
language barrier, by Rewati Sapkota (ht
01/04/2018)
Public
Education at Crossroads, by Kushal Pokharel
(rn 31/03/2018)
Need
of
long term solution: Private operators and
government authority together need to resolve
the contentious issue of fee determination
(kp 30/03/2018)
Paradigm
shift
in school education: Challenges persist on
decentralising the entire school education and
providing free and compulsory education (kp
30/03/2018)
Eroding
Teaching Standards, by Hira Bahadur Thapa
(rn 30/03/2018)
No
student will be deprived of textbooks: DoE
(ht 30/03/2018)
Schoolkids
receive educational material (ht 26/03/2018)
Teaching
challenges:
In Nepal, we are not offering students enough
focused practice opportunities, and most of our
feedback is either non-existent or simply
irrelevant, by Dinesh Kandel (rep
24/03/2018)
Quake-damaged
schools in Gorkha yet to be rebuilt: SEE exams
being conducted under makeshift tents, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 23/03/2018)
522
students of Bardiya school study under hot tin
roof, by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep
20/03/2018)
Young
couple divorced after two days of marriage:
Efforts to curb child marriage becoming
effective in Rukum, by Ganesh BK (rep
17/03/2018)
Girls
of Badi community being deprived of school
education (ht 17/03/2018)
School
without roof (rep 17/03/2018)
Textbooks
being published in Doteli language (ht
12/03/2018)
Local
governments
vow to improve education quality in public
schools: Sinja Rural Municipality in Jumla has
allocated Rs 19.9 million to develop
teaching-learning environment (kp
11/03/2018) [related to Jumla]
Local
levels ‘unable’ to hold exams (ht
11/03/2018)
Internet
and
schools: We are engaged in rhetoric of how
Internet is changing the classroom far too often
without actually mentioning the change, by
Hitesh Karki (rep 10/03/2018)
CLPIU
has only four months to rebuild 2,100 schools,
by Ujjwal Satyal (ht 09/03/2018)
Lazybones
vs
easy kill: If the society has punished public
institutions for their sluggishness, it will
punish private colleges for the shallowness of
the education they provide, by Shyam Sharma
(rep 06/03/2018)
SZOP
And School Shutdown, by Nandalal Tiwari (rn
05/03/2018) [It's high
time that the state initiates severe steps
against this small terrorist group led by Netra
Bikram Chand!], ANNFSU-R
bandh shuts educational institutions, by
Ruby Rauniyar (rep 05/03/2018)
Government
to transform 222 community schools into model
academic institutions (ht 28/02/2018)
Children
from marginalized communities deprived of
education, by Amar Khadka (rep 27/02/2018)
Textbooks
in local languages sought (ht 26/02/2018)
School
management under fed system: Local units start
licence process (kp 25/02/2018)
CRM
turning effective in addressing girls’ problems
(ht 24/02/2018), Saving
dignity
with pads: For many girls, periods mean missing
school days. One of the reasons is lack of
access to better and cheaper sanitary pads,
by Ishwar Rauniyar
204
of 407 community schools in Rolpa without govt
teachers (rep 24/02/2018)
Irregularities
in mid-day meal programme (ht 24/02/2018)
Education
under
a federal set-up: A two-day conference in the
Capital will present a host of papers by
education experts on the different
prospects and challenges for the Nepali
education system after a federal
decentralisation (kp 23/02/2018), Education
in
the federation of Nepal: The inaugural day of a
two-day international conference saw educators
and experts discuss the challenges of
decentalising education in the federal set up
(kp 24/02/2018)
Uneducated
mothers pledge to educate kids (ht
23/02/2018)
MoE
seeking alternative to district education
offices (rep 23/02/2018)
Number
of girls exceeds boys in community schools of
Khotang (rep 23/02/2018)
Bridging
the gap: Public education must not be
politicised if it is to catch up to, and
surpass, private education, by Saurav Raj
Pant and Bibek Basnet (kp 22/02/2018)
Inclusion
in education: Ensure equal opportunity, by
Sudarshan Neupane (ht 22/02/2018)
Rolpa:
Where students still walk over 2 hours to school,
by Dinesh Subedi (rep 22/02/2018)
Educational
hypermetropia: Educators who want to change the
system must start by valuing what they already
do, by Shyam Sharma (rep 22/02/2018)
Ex-students
set up e-library in their community schools,
by Sarita Shrestha (kp 21/02/2018)
Confusion
persists over management of schools by local
levels (ht 19/02/2018)
Foreign
curricula should be banned: Educationists
(kp 18/02/2018)
Teaching
children
to dream: This generation needs a different
education with different sets of books and an
environment to dream crazy. Are we ready to
invest in the generation of spacewalkers?,
by Mukesh Baral (rep 18/02/2018)
Province
7 community schools set example, improve
sanitation (ht 17/02/2018)
Four
schools to face action for overcharging students
(kp 16/02/2018)
From
community classrooms, by Priyanka Gurung
(rep 16/02/2018)
Plight
Of Public Schools, by Mukti Rijal (rn
15/02/2018)
Centre
tells
local units to ensure students get textbooks on
time: The new academic session in Dolpa, Humla,
Jumla, Manang and Mustang started on
Wednesday (kp 15/02/2018), School
session starts but textbooks yet to reach
mountain districts (rep 15/02/2018), MoFALD
tells local levels to ensure students get
textbooks on time (ht 16/02/2018)
Power
of Civic Education, by Dev Raj Dahal (rn
13/02/2018)
School
in Udayapur facing serious financial crisis
(ht 13/02/2018)
Rasuwa
declared as 43rd literate district (rep
13/02/2018)
Transforming
schools:
Imparting education in languages other than
children’s mother tongues slowly and subtly
alienates them from their culture and tradition,
by Ammar Bahadur Singh (rep 10/02/2018)
Local
bodies clueless on managing schools (kp
08/02/2018)
‘Bar
foreign schools from holding education fairs’
(ht 31/01/2018)
Textbooks
for all: Students must get them on time, by
Rupendra Joshi (ht 31/01/2018)
Democracy
as a way of life: Democratic schools must be
established to cultivate skills for a new
federal Nepal, by Tom Robertson (30/01/2018)
150
community schools in Lamjung district operating
with less than 20 students each (ht
29/01/2018)
Distressing
condition of schools and colleges in Rolpa,
by Dinesh Subedi (rep 28/01/2018)
Only
few schools imparting education in mother tongue
(ht 25/01/2018)
New
responsibilities: Challenges emerge as school
education comes under the purview of local
authorities, by Umesh Raj Regmi (kp
24/01/2018)
Computers
in classrooms: The reasons for unsuccessful
yield of IT in country like ours need to be
understood in depth and detail, by Hitesh
Karki (rep 24/01/2018)
Children’s
future at risk due to lack of school
infrastructure in Bara (ht 23/01/2018)
Chepang
children still deprived of quality education,
by Sarita Shrestha (rep 23/01/2018)
Privatization
of
Education: Good or bad? Huge portion of
government expenditure comes from foreign aids
and foreign donors are promoting privatization
of education, by Chandra Sharma Poudyal (rep
23/01/2018)
Textbooks
delivery unlikely on time in five mountain
districts (ht 22/01/2018)
‘Free
schooling for pupils from marginalised groups’
(kp 18/01/2018)
Primary
school students to get colourful textbooks
(ht 18/01/2018)
Civic
Education in Democracy, by Mukti Rijal (rn
18/01/2018)
Empowering
schools:
There needs to be more debate in terms of
private intervention in public education among
stakeholders including the donors, by
Niranjan Narsingh Khatri (rep 17/01/2018)
Low
investment causing privatisation of education,
by Anita Shrestha (ht 16/01/2018)
Academic
year ends in 2 months, only 50% course completed,
by Dinesh Subedi (rep 13/01/2018)
Inclusive
education: A tool for social change, by Dev
Datta Joshi (ht 12/01/2018)
Early
marriage contributing to school dropout, by
Madhav Aryal (kp 08/01/2018)
MoE,
local bodies at odds over federalism (rep
05/01/2018)
School
education
reforms: Pabson, NPabsan after ‘foiling’ panel
report; The two umbrella bodies of private
schools say the report was prepared without any
homework (kp 04/01/2018), ‘Govt
discouraging private investment in education
sector’ (ht 04/01/2018)
Classes
at quake-damaged schools still under tents,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 03/01/2018)
DEOs
yet to hand over power to local levels (ht
01/01/2018)
Against
all odds: One woman’s quest to make basic
education available to thousands of
visually-impaired across the country, by
Abijeet Pant (kp 31/12/2017)
Meal
scheme aims to reduce absenteeism in schools
(ht 30/12/2017)
Implement
programmes to end disparity in education: HLEC
(ht 26/12/2017)
Commission
recommends umbrella body for education sector
(rep 25/12/2017)
Education
to
suit federalism: Experts propose 40 pc local
contents in school curricula; The panel has also
suggested revamping all the schools in two
structures 1-8 and 9-12 as per the eighth
amendment to the Education Act-1972 (kp
22/12/2017)
Quake-resilient
school handed over in Kavre (kp 19/12/2017)
In
lack of good schools in Siraha, children go to
Indian schools, by Mithilesh Yadav (rep
11/12/2017)
Govt
schools improving education quality in Bajura
(kp 09/12/2017)
Academic
stress at schools Causes and management,
by Shiba Datta Gnawali (ht 08/12/2017)
Free
technical education for kids of affected migrant
workers (ht 05/12/2017)
Girls
face barriers in accessing education, health,
safety: Report (kp 01/12/2017), Report
highlights
barriers Nepali girls face in accessing
education: The report provides data of
education, child marriage and VAW (ht
02/12/2017)
Separate
toilets at school recommended to help education
of girls (rep 01/12/2017)
DoE
to facilitate local govts in holding grade 8
exams (ht 24/11/2017)
Rich
schools, poor students: There was no link
between school cost and cognitive abilities
while the link between cost and pre-SEE exam
scores was negligible, by Niranjan Narsingh
Khatri (rep 20/11/2017)
NELTA
and
English dharma: English almost assumed the
avatar of dharma when it was confined to the
classroom and learnt from prescribed textbooks,
by Abhi Subedi (kp 12/11/2017)
Students
protest
against 9th amendment to Edu Act: Threaten
self-immolation if govt sticks to its
stance n To surrender teaching licence at
SC (kp 10/11/2017), Cross-party
unions extend support to agitating students
(kp 17/11/2017)
Community
learning centres: Empowering literacy, by
Manohar Karki (ht 03/11/2017)
Translingual
benefits:
Scholarship based on classroom observations has
consistently shown that teachers of content
subjects, in general, cannot teach in English
effectively, by Shyam Sharma (rep
24/10/2017)
Corruption
in education: Policy and practice, by Shak
Bahadur Budhathoki (ht 23/10/2017)
2,456
educational institutions reconstructed so far
(ht 23/10/2017)
Complaint
box initiative improves learning environment at
schools (kp 20/10/2017)
Local
govts
start work on school education: As around 90
percent of the federal budget goes to salary,
the local federal units will have to generate
their own resources to invest for quality
education, by Binod Ghimire (kp 18/10/2017)
Yak
rearing source of income for community schools,
by Hari Krishna Gautam (rp 18/10/2017)
Reviving
public
education: From education minister to education
secretary to educationists to teachers, no one
wants to enroll their children in public schools
if they have option of private schools, by
Mahabir Paudyal (rep 18/10/2017)
Questions
raised over quality of education (ht
17/10/2017)
Quake-ravaged
schools finally getting rebuilt, by Pratap
Bista (kp 16/10/2017) [related to Makwanpur]
This
govt school has two teachers, four students,
by Kisan Sangit Nepali (rep 16/10/2017)
Hearing-impaired
children deprived of education (ht
15/10/2017)
Technology
ain’t enough: Teachers considered teaching
computers an additional burden and expected to
be paid ‘extra’ for it, by Hitesh Karki (rep
14/10/2017)
Destroying
public
education: Education Minister Gopal Man Shrestha
and his henchmen are responsible for what
experts call‘coordinated murder’ of our public
education system. History will not forgive them
easily, by Mahabir Paudyal (rep 10/10/2017)
NA
constructing school building (ht 09/10/2017)
Parliament
passes Edu Act (Ninth Amendment) Bill: Some
lawmakers say move will further ruin public
education sector, by Binod Ghimire (kp
20/09/2017), House
passes Education Bill: Bars 7 lakh teaching
licence holders from community schools, by
Rupesh Acharya (ht 20/09/2017), Mathema,
Wagle resign from education panel: Take
exception to the ninth amendment to Edu Act
(kp 21/09/2017), Not
fair: The bill was designed in such a way that
temporary teachers get better chances to become
permanent (ht 21/09/2017), Govt
gets Education Act amended to appoint
‘incompetent’ temporary teachers, by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 21/09/2017), Falling
short: Education Ministry must pay heed to
serious reservations from experts and lawmakers
(kp 22/09/2017), Students
want amendment to Edu Act revoked (kp
22/09/2017)
School
girls build toilet on their own, by Jagat
Khadka (rep 19/09/2017)
391
Edu
Dept officials deputed to local govt: DoE
transfers gazetted third class officers to 391
rural municipalities, municipalities and
sub-metropolitan cities, even Province 2 where
the local polls are held next week (kp
13/09/2017)
DoTM
asks PABSON, N-PABSAN for buses, by Anup
Ojha (kp 09/09/2017)
High-level
commission to federate education system (rep
08/09/2017)
Keep
Education Off Party Politics, by Mukti Rijal
(rn 07/09/2017), Learn
the lesson: Lawmakers and govt have to ensure
recently formed comission brings education
reform (kp 07/09/2017)
On
‘computerized’
schools: The two schools in Sindhupalchowk
district that I recently visited both had good
computer labs. But the computers were all
covered in dust, by Hitesh Karki (rep
06/09/2017)
Community
Schools In Changed Context, by Hira Bahadur
Thapa (rn 01/09/2017)
Students
lack textbooks in flood-hit areas (ht
01/09/2017)
Education
Sector Needs Fresh Start, by Mukti Rijal (rn
31/08/2017)
Government
schools: Much room for reform, by Manjari
Mundara (ht 29/08/2017)
DoE:
1,406
schools damaged in monsoon-related disasters;
The devastation caused by floods and landslides
has added to the burden the country is bearing
following the earthquake of 2015 (kp
25/08/2017)
Community
schools with too few students shut down in
Tanahun (kp 23/08/2017)
Principal
concern:
Lack of funds greatly hampers our public primary
schools, making the quality of education they
deliver great suspect, by Shak Bahadur
Budhathoki (rep 23/08/2017)
Govt
registers new education bill: Move aims to
address demands of agitating temporary teachers,
by Rupesh Acharya (ht 18/08/2017)
Rs
1.1 trillion centralized school program at odds
with federalism, by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep
10/08/2017), 'SSDP
failed to meet goals' (rep 10/08/2017)
English
hurdles:
Most public schools don’t have good English
language teachers. Even the few who have
received training are rather incompetent, by
Shak Bahadur Budhathoki (rep 09/08/2017)
Red
panda conservation included in school texts,
by Shahiman Rai (kp 01/08/2017)
Healthy
young minds: Schools should give as much
importance to students’ mental health as
physical health, by Umesh Raj Regmi (kp
01/08/2017)
MoE
forms panel to probe Sajha capers (rep
28/07/2017)
Helicopter
parentingInstead of mollycoddling kids, Nepali
parents should let their children build their
own paths, by Niranjan Khatiwada (kp
25/07/2017)
Rebuilding
of Sindhu schools delayed, by Anish Tiwari
(kp 23/07/2017)
Muslim
women and girls benefit from literacy classes
(kp 22/07/2017)
170
schools left in lurch after govt fund stopped
(ht 20/07/2017)
Sluggish
reconstruction
of quake-hit schools (ht 18/07/2017), Funds
crunch set to affect school reconstruction
(rep 19/07/2017)
School
reconstruction
gaining momentum (kp 15/07/2017)
Madrasas
facing
budgetary constraint as govt fails to release
grants on time (ht 15/07/2017)
Post-quake
education:
Widening disparities, by Vikash Raj Satyal
(ht 14/07/2017)
Rautahat
dropouts
going to school again (ht 13/07/2017)
Humla
children sell timbers to cover education
expenses, by Janak Bahadur Shahi (rep
13/07/2017)
Consumer
awareness
to be taught in school (kp 12/07/2017)
Govt
to
implement ‘One school one library’ campaign
(kp 10/07/2017)
Manang
declared
fully literate district (ht 08/07/2017)
Jajarkot
school
kids urge local reps to address their concerns
(ht 06/07/2017)
More
budget
sought for education sector (ht 05/07/2017)
MoE
issues
18-point directive (ht 03/07/2017)
Unequal
and
unfair education, by Neraz Tuladhar (kp
30/06/2017)
DEO
axe
falls on seven more schools in Siraha district
(ht 28/06/2017)
Bardibas
school constructs child-friendly infrastructures
with public support, by Mahesh Kumar Das
(rep 24/06/2017)
Call
to
promote sexuality education among adolescents
(ht 23/06/2017)
Achham’s
female
candidates for compulsory girl child education,
by Menuka Dhungana (kp 22/06/2017)
Four-day
school
closure for polls (kp 20/06/2017) [Schools cannot be closed
often enough!]
Reconstruction
of
schools snail-paced: DPM Shrestha (ht
16/06/2017)
Not
catching
them young: Even before children have learnt to
read or write, they have learnt to hate school,
by Prajeet Bajpai (nt 16/06/2017)
École
Française
Internationale de Katmandou turns 30: Studying
in a French school is not only about learning
the French language, it is also about
participating in a French-style education,
interview with Joël Keller (nt 16/06/2017)
PMO:
Deploy
edu officers to 283 local units (kp
15/06/2017)
Grade
12
examination: Question papers via email call
officials into question: Panel recommends action
against eight, including exam controller, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 13/02/2017)
Heatwave:
4-day
school closure in Kanchanpur, by Bhawani
Bhatta (kp 06/06/2017)
Bill
Committee
endorses Education Regulation 2073 (ht
03/06/2017)
4-day
Kantipur
Hissan Edu-Fair kicks off (kp 02/06/2017), Large
turnout
on 2nd day of edu fair (kp 03/06/2017), Kantipur
Hissan
education fair
draws record number of visitors (kp
04/06/2017)
Schools
shut
for months in Bajura with teachers absent
(ht 02/06/2017)
Local
levels
to manage secondary education (ht
30/05/2017), New
budget hands over of secondary education
responsibility to local govts, by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 30/05/2017)
Un-learning:
The
SLC might now be called the SEE, but has it
fundamentally changed how we teach and how we learn?,
bys Ruby Basnyat (kp 27/05/2017)
Deal on
reducing hiked school fees in limbo: On April 28,
various student unions and the Ministry of Education
(MoE) had agreed to reduce within 15 days the fees
illegally increased by various private schools
(rep 26/05/2017)
Inclusive
education:
A must for disabled, by Dev Datta Joshi (ht
25/05/2017)
SDG
4
: Quality education for all: It is high time we
ensured that every child from every community goes to
school, by Prabal Gurung (kp 23/05/2017)
Windstorms
blow
school roofs away; classes halted (kp
21/05/2017)
Crux
of
the matter: A focus on the formative years of
childhood helps students perform better in their
later academic life, by Byanjana Sharma (kp
19/05/2017)
Over
50% children without textbooks in Rupandehi,
by Rekha Bhusal (rep 17/05/2017)
School
upgradation
in limbo in Bara (kp 15/05/2017)
4.4
million school textbooks yet to be printed
(rep 12/05/2017)
Playing
with
our future: Perhaps it is because public schools
have been disproportionately affected by the
quakes that the authorities’ response has been
so slow, by Deepak Thapa (kp 04/05/2017)
Kailali
schools
to remain shut amid protest over fee hike
(ht 04/05/2017)
EC
wants schools closed for 7 days for May 14 polls
(rep 04/05/2017) [Why?]
Textbook
shortage
in Parsa hits students (ht 03/05/2017)
Jha
criticises
Education Ministry’s inaction over private
school fee hike (kp 01/05/2017)
High
schools:
Education is the most neglected service in two
of Nepal’s most neglected districts, by
Pawan Dhakal (nt 28/04/2017)
NEB
Exams
Controller Santosh Aryal sacked: Aryal is linked
with the shortage of question papers for grade
12 exams (kp 27/04/2017), SLCE
question paper shortage in some districts, exam
chief suspended (rep 27/04/2017)
Over
100
Valley schools padlocked over exorbitant fees
(kp 27/04/2017), Fee
hike
protest will continue (kp 28/04/2017), Unions
padlock 175 private schools against fee hike:
SLCE exams not affected (rep 28/04/2017), Govt
agrees
to reduce illegally hiked school fees within 15
days (rep 29/04/2017)
A
school where learning is fun: An exemplary
school in Khotang gives emphasis to practical
education, by Daman Rai (rep 27/04/2017)
Annual
drive
for education begins today; This year’s focus
will be on Goal 4 of Sustainable Development
Goals which states ‘Ensure Inclusive and Quality
Education for all and Promote lifelong learning’
(kp 26/04/2017)
Right
to
Education, by Pawan Timilsina (ht
23/04/2017)
Entrepreneurial
Thinking
In Education, by Kushal Pokharel (rn
23/04/2017)
Badi
kids
out of school in Bajhang, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 19/04/2017)
Semester
misalignments:
There is still no teaching-to-assessment
alignment. The attempt to introduce new forms of
assessment may have added new misalignments,
by Shyam Sharma (rep 19/04/2017)
Student
unions
want pvt school fees regulated: Unions claim
that private educational institutions have
increased fees by up to 200 percent from this
session (kp 19/04/2017), MoE
directs govt bodies to monitor fee hikes in pvt
schools (rep 21/04/2017)
JSSK
fails
to meet book printing deadline, again: 14
million school textbooks prepared so far, 5.5
million yet to be printed, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 18/04/2017)
Farmers’
income
goes on kids’ education (kp 18/04/2017)
SLCE
for 12th graders from April 23, by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 17/04/2017), 11,880
security personnel for SLCE starting from April
23 (rep 18/04/2017)
Roadblock
In Education Reform, by Mukti Rijal (rn
13/04/2017)
Teaching
in English medium helps public schools thrive,
by Ajit Tiwari (rep 12/04/2017)
Utter
negligence by DEOs encourages schools to
arbitrarily hike fees, by Bishnu Prasad
Aryal (rep 11/04/2017)
Kids
sans
birth certificate deprived of education (ht
06/04/2017)
Donors
concerned
about education in new local set-up: Ministry
comes up with action plan (kp 05/04/2017)
School
for disabled struggles to continue, by Arjun
Bhushal (rep 05/04/2017)
Education
for
disabled: Our curriculum is still not
disable-friendly and hence not accessible to
children with visual and hearing impairments,
by Sudarshan Neupane (rep 05/04/2017)
Govt
unable to check pvt school fee hikes, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 04/04/2017)
Ministry,
chief
secy at odds over education regulations: Somlal
Subedi rejects Education Regulations for
discussion in the Cabinet arguing that the rules
go against the jurisdiction of the newly created
local level units (kp 27/03/2017)
One
third
school books left to print (kp 26/03/2017)
Government
schools emptying: A case from Surkhet, by
Kalendra Sejuwal (rep 25/03/2017)
SEE
concludes, results within 90 days, by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 25/03/2017)
Nine
Sindhuli
schools to be merged (ht 24/03/2017)
Students
in
Hardeni miss classes to fetch drinking water
(ht 24/03/2017)
The
Israeli
way: Nepal’s education system can learn a few
things from Israel, like dropout prevention,
by Umesh Raj Regmi (kp 23/03/2017)
Lack
of classrooms affecting children’s education:
Students of various grades taught under the same
tattered tarpaulin, by Narahari Sapkota (rep
22/03/2017)
Dalit
children crush stones to buy books, by Janak
KC (rep 22/03/2017)
Quality
continues
to remain major challenge: The sooner drop-out
rates improve, the better it is, say experts,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 21/03/2017)
Private
sector
in education Unprecedented growth in last two
decades: Despite education being a
service-oriented sector, it has become vibrant
from a business point of view, by Sanjeev
Giri (kp 21/03/2017)
As
private
schools hog the limelight, all is not lost for
public institutions: Some public schools have
performed exceptionally well despite limitations
(kp 21/03/2017)
Election
hampers printing of school textbooks, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 21/03/2017), Perennial
shortage:
Why the state-supported publication house can
never print textbooks on time needs
investigation (kp 22/03/2017)
609
examinees
absent in Saptari SEE (ht 20/03/2017)
Education
ministry 'confused' about status of DEOs, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 20/03/2017)
Laptops
for
quake-hit schools in Lalitpur (ht
18/03/2017)
Educationists
call
for competent leadership in community schools
(ht 18/03/2017)
Students
unlikely
to get textbooks on time: One third of JSSK
machines to print ballot papers, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 17/03/2017)
Secondary
Education
Exam begins today (kp 16/03/2017), 171
disqualified,
four visually impaired take SEE on first day
(ht 17/03/2017), SEE
for Grade 10 begins, 538,182 students sitting
for exams (rep 17/03/2017), SEE
invigilators
helping students cheat in exams (ht
18/03/2017)
Secondary
Education
Exams start on Thursday (kp 14/03/2017), Girls
outnumber boys across country in Grade 10: SEE
in lieu of SLC for Grade 10, total of 538,182
taking exams from March 16, by Bishnu Prasad
Aryal (rep 14/03/2017)
Girls’
education:
Failed programme, by Chun Bahadur Gurung (ht
14/03/2017)
Quality
education:
The root of all solutions, by Ayushma
Basnyat (rep 10/03/2017)
Education
Regulation to be forwarded to cabinet in a week
(rep 09/2017)
Quake-hit
schools
being rebuilt in Ramechhap (ht 04/03/2017)
Rebuilding
of
schools delayed in Okhaldhunga, by Kumbharaj
Rai (kp 03/03/2017)
Schools
reopen but teachers yet to return from vacation
(rep 03/03/2017)
‘Avoid
use
of schools as polling centres’ (ht
03/03/2017)
Kids
in Chepang village spend time playing in lack of
school, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep
02/03/2017)
New
plan
pushes for better access to quality education
(ht 02/03/2017)
Printing
ballot papers to affect textbooks availability:
Only 50 percent school textbooks printed to date,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 28/02/2017)
Textbook
shortage
in Manang (kp 24/02/2017)
Remote
Chitwan
settlements left without school after earthquake,
by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 23/02/2017)
Sajha
to
Help JEMC print school textbooks (kp
18/02/2017)
Post-quake
reconstruction:
Education of thousands of students in jeopardy;
MoE at wit’s end as govt scrambles to generate
fund to rebuild schools, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 17/02/2017), Reconstruction
of 4,067 quake-damaged schools yet to begin,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 20/02/2017)
Education
sector
tops list of complaints filed at CIAA (ht
12/02/2017)
Kuchbadhiya
kids
deprived of education, by Janak Nepal (kp
10/02/2017)
Down
and
out: Government schools need to improve; making
education free is not the solution - at least
for now, by Shail Suman Silwal (kp
10/02/2017)
Education
In 21st Century, by Kushal Pokharel (rn
04/02/2017)
Inclusive
education:
Disabled students should be equipped with basic
academic and adequate life skills, by Umesh
Raj Regmi (kp 03/02/2017)
School
lavatory
without water (kp 02/02/2017)
The
‘English’ debate: Three million children in
Nepal are now studying in private schools that
market their English medium instruction, by
Chura Bahadur Thapa (rep 01/02/2017)
irls
enrollment
& retention in school: DoE to launch project
in 3 Tarai districts (kp 31/01/2017)
Lack
of
Braille textbooks leaves visually impaired
students worried, by Pradeep Menyangbo (kp
30/01/2017)
Contract
inked
for improved academic environment in community
schools (ht 26/012/2017)
Schools
turning into playground for politicians, by
Raju Adhikari (rep 25/01/2017)
No
records of students returning from abroad,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 24/01/2017)
School Education Reform At Cross-roads, by
Prem Khatry (rn 17/01/2017)
Government
school's dilemma: Free or quality education?,
by Devendra Basnet (rep 17/01/2017)
Not
a single textbook printed for primary schools
(rep 16/01/2017), Manage
adequate
textbooks for new academic session, govt told
(ht 18/01/2017)
OCE
to
conduct School Education Exams this year: The
Grade 10 exams will start on March
16. The 11-day test will conclude
with practicals on March 27 (kp 14/01/2017)
Rebuilding
of
earthquake-hit schools in limbo, by Harbihar
Singh Rathour (kp 10/01/2017)
Community
schools
with less number of students face problem of
survival (ht 10/01/2017)
Battling
illiteracy: Youths launch tuition classes for
community's children, by Santosh Singh (rep
09/01/2017)
Public
schools
facing existential crisis, by Anita Shrestha
(ht 08/01/2017), Merger
crisis:
It is high time that the government reviewed its
old policies in the education sector so that the
local communities prefer to send their kids to
public schools (ht 09/01/2017)
27
Tharu
girls get bicycles: Creating Possibilities has
been organising bicycle programme to encourage
girls to go to school (kp 07/01/2017)
Upper
Mustang
students take classes in mobile school (ht
06/01/2017)
Literacy
classes making women's life easier, by Arjun
Bhushal (rep 06/01/2017)
Trending
:
Australian education: A record number of Nepali
students are heading to university Down Under,
by Jessica Cortis (nt 06/01/2017)
JEMC
gets one week to start printing textbooks
(rep 05/01/2017)
Snowfall
shuts schools in Northern Gorkha, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 04/01/2017)
NEB
and CTEVT without chairperson and
member-secretary for months (rep 04/01/2017)
Implementation
of Education Regulation delayed (rep
03/01/2017)
Politicized
schools: Political parties compete for top
school posts so that they get to use school
budgets as they like, by Ishwar Rauniyar
(rep 02/01/2017)
A
Gurukul struggling against odds in Gorkha,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 31/12/2016)
Schools
far
from becoming peace zones (ht 25/12/2016)
Manang
schools
shut for three months (ht 17/12/2016)
MoF
yet
to give nod to education regulation: Parliament
endorsed the regulation six months ago in line
with the eighth amendment in the Education Act
(kp 14/12/2016), ‘New
Education
Regulation within 15 days’ (ht 14/12/2016),
Proposed
Education
Regulation gathering dust at Ministry of Finance
(ht 16/12/2016)
Child-friendly
community
schools attract students (ht 11/12/2016)
Conference
aims
to promote inclusive education (ht
08/12/2016)
Mindset
needs
to change: There are numerous obstacles to
inclusive education for children with
disabilities; Disabled people are often
subjected to inhuman treatment and are largely
perceived as requiring charity as opposed to
rights, by Devdatta Joshi (kp 07/12/2016)
NGOs
complain of irregularities in girls' education
program, by Madan Thakur (rep 07/12/2016)
Price
list
of textbooks for new academic session made
public (ht 06/12/2016), Signs
of
delay: While price and quality are important
factors, they will be nothing if the textbooks
are not made available to all the students
across the country on time (ht 07/12/2016)
School
sector
development: Rhetoric and reality, by
Santosh Gautam (ht 06/12/2016)
Journalism
of
‘Pusti’: Children today are fish in
technological waters. Media education should
thus be part of the curricula from primary
school level, by Dharma Adhikari (rep
06/12/2016)
DEOs
told
to set up technical committees to implement SSDP
(ht 30/11/2016)
School
running
classes under open sky after its old building
falls apart, by Khagendra Awasthi (kp
28/11/2016)
300
schools
without classrooms in Sindhupalchok, by
Anish Tiwari (kp 26/11/2016)
Towards
Contextual Education, by Balmukunda Regmi
(rn 26/11/2016)
Two
teachers
handling 100 students (ht 26/11/2016)
Safe
education
for all: Structural inequalities and patriarchal
attitudes continue to affect women’s schooling,
by Renu Adhikari Rajbhandari (kp 25/11/2016)
Corporal
punishment
rampant in pvt schools (ht 24/11/2016)
Nat’l
Audio
Library awaits proper maintenance, by Lal
Prasad Sharma (kp 20/11/2016)
Lack
of toilets keeping girls away from schools
(kp 20/11/2016)
Old
plan,
new plan: Despite all its efforts, govt has not
come even close to bridging the gap between
private and public education, by Kahar Singh
Khadka (kp 20/11/2016)
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