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moves in education : The outdated Education Act 1971 is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)
No
room
to read: For a metropolis of its size, Kathmandu has
alarmingly few libraries. Nepal is not so poor as not to
be able to afford a couple of libraries in its major
cities and towns, by Mohan Guragain (kp 19/11/2016)
Girls
Education
Summit begins today (ht 18/11/2016)
Rethinking
education:
Instead of promoting broader and innovative thinking and
making them learn with joy, schools treat children much
like machines, by Anjali Subedi (rep 17/11/2016)
Free,
compulsory
education sought by Sub-panel (ht 16/11/2016)
Lack
of
bridge increasing school dropout rate: Children failing
to reach school as there’s no safer means to cross
river; Schoolkids of Kanjabhoj, Kutiyakbhar, Shantinagar
areas have to pay Rs 5 every time they take the boat to
get across (kp 16/11/2016)
Community
school
students still studying in temporary classrooms, by
Pratap Bista (kp 16/11/2016)
Govt
to
offer vocational training to jobless youth (kp
15/11/2016)
Classes
being
run for Dalit girls, by Byas
Shankar Upadhyay (ht
13/11/2016)
NPABSAN
protests
against proposed Education Regulations (ht
12/11/2016)
39
pc child literacy gap between rich and poor: CBS, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 10/11/2016)
Edu
Ministry:
Junior grades must for Plus Two institutes (kp
09/11/2016)
Rautahat
Muslims
breaking barriers to girls’ education: Around 400 girls
from the Muslim community are studying in Jamiya
Khadijatul Kubra School (ht 09/11/2016), Muslim
daughters start going to school, by Madan Thakur
(rep 10/11/2016)
7
regional boards to conduct school exams (kp
07/11/2016)
Private
schools pushing own interests in education regulations,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 05/11/2016)
Our
poor schools: A government school in Waling, Syangja, is
still in almost the same state as it was twenty five
years back, by Dinkar Nepal (rep 05/11/2016)
Combating
bullying:
Students should be taught that they should not tolerate
any form of aggressive behavior and harassment in
schools and the community, by Neha KC (rep
05/11/2016)
Preschool
worries:
Starting school for the first time is a big step, both
for parents and children but there is some level of
stress involved with it too, by Usha Pokharel (rep
05/11/2016)
Revamping
Education Sector, by Mukti Rijal (rn 03/11/2016), Education
ministry
set to implement School Sector Development Plan (ht
03/11/2016)
School
for
Dalits lies in a sorry state (ht 29/10/2016) [Why is there a special school for
Dalit children at all?]
Educating
girls,
and through them villages: How JNFEA has set up a model
project for learning and teaching culture (kp
28/10/2016)
Govt
nod
for ambitious SSDP, by Binod Ghimire (kp
27/10/2016), Cautiously
optimistic
Without a time-bound framework, new plan will not lead
to significant school reforms (kp 28/10/2016)
Schools
closed
after dengue outbreak in Chitwan towns (kp
26/10/2016)
Kids
deprived
of education after losing school to landslide, by
Ananda Gautam (kp 26/10/2016)
Economic
progress:
Invest in 10-year-old girls, by Giulia Vallese (ht
21/10/2016)
OCE
to
conduct Grade X exams this year too, by Kokila KC
(ht 19/10/2015) [Continued confusion because of inactivity of
government and administration means a violation of the
fundamental rights of the students!]
Importance
of education emphasized to alleviate poverty, by
Suresh Yadav (rep 19/10/2016)
Dropout
rates
up in Kanchanpur schools (ht 18/10/2016)
Children
unable to reach school after cable crossing fails,
by Hari Krishna Gautam (rep 18/10/2016)
School
reconstruction
yet to gather pace, by Pushpa Raj Acharya (ht
16/10/2016)
Textbooks
for
new session unlikely to be printed on time (ht
08/10/2016) [Same procedure as
every year!!], Again
and
again: The short supply of school textbooks has
considerably affected the teaching and learning process
in many schools in a number of districts each year
(ht 14/10/2016)
MoEd
to
begin reconstruction of 307 schools within this fiscal:
Fate of 4,300 quake-hit schools is still uncertain
(ht 08/10/2016)
One
million
kids still out of school: Report (ht 07/10/2016)
Food
for
thinking: It turns out gender discrimination is a good
thing for girl students in government schools, by Om
Astha Rai (nt 07/10/2016)
Action
plan
for education reform made public (ht 07/10/2016)
MoE
transfers
DEOs in 50 districts (kp 04/10/2016)
Reconstruction
of
ADB-assisted school projects begin (ht 04/10/2016)
Govt
elevates 92 schools to secondary status (rep
03/10/2016)
On
mature
reflection: What is clearly missing from community schools
is incentives to the management system and teachers,
by Labisha Uprety (kp 02/10/2016)
Of
two
minds: If Nepalis world over have done well, it is because
English has become accessible to many students, by
Sujeev Shakya (kp 27/09/2016)
Education
in federal set up discussed (rep 20/09/2016)
Pvt
schools defy govt rules on fee restructure, by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 19/09/2016)
Libraries
in
Panchthar losing readers (ht 11/09/2016)
MoE
to
develop 1,000 ‘model schools’ (ht 08/09/2016)
Reconstruction
of
damaged Kavre schools left in limbo (ht 08/09/2016)
Guru
Secondary
School named best in Midwest, by Raj Bahadur Shahi (kp
07/09/2016)
30
more
districts to be declared fully literate (ht
03/09/2016)
Students
yet
to get textbooks in Bajura (ht 03/09/2016)
Book
rooms
in sorry state as country marks 9th Library Day: According
to Library Archival Management Committee, there are 41,272
libraries in the country (kp 01/09/2016)
'New
laws needed to overhaul education system' (rep
01/09/2016)
Public
schools in Kathmandu Valley switching to English medium
(rep 29/08/2016)
Native
language
teaching fails to impress Tharu community (kp
24/08/2016) [Such offer for
classes I-V means nothing! You also need textbooks and
other materials. And especially, you have to extinguish
the monolinguistic curricula that were forced by King
Mahendras Panchayat politics and you have to give ethnic
languages and cultures a perspective!]
Public
finance
in schools: Policies should be made flexible so as to
enable local stakeholders to use public money more
creatively, by Shak Bahadur Budhathoki (kp 23/08/2016)
Activity-based
instruction:
Our schools need it, by Shree Prasad Devkota and
Dhundi Raj Giri (ht 23/08/2016)
DEO
begins
process of scrapping 13 schools (ht 23/08/2016)
[related to Lalitpur]
Monitoring
of public schools mired in formalities (rep
22/08/2016)
Schools
get
more time to apply for additional subjects (ht
18/08/2016)
Classes
hampered as displaced victims occupy school, by Bira
Gadal (rep 18/08/2016)
11
community
schools merged in Dhading (ht 18/08/2016)
ANNISU-R
strike
closes academic institutions (ht 16/08/2016) [Strikes
are not means of protest in the educational system but a
violation of the fundamental rights of the students!]
Classes
in
huts after Flood-hit take shelter in school, by Lal
Prasad Sharma (kp 14/08/2ß16)
Jajarkot
school
running classes out in the open, by Bhim Bahadur Singh
(kp 10/08/2016)
Quake-hit
schools in 31 districts to be rebuilt within 3 years,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 10/08/2016)
Govt
schools sans school management committee (rep
10/08/2016)
Textbook
delivery hit in Mugu (kp 10/08/2016)
13
Kaski
schools to be merged (ht 10/08/2016)
Unequal
citizens:
The focus on numbers is creating a generation of
frustrated graduates (kp 09/08/2016)
Language
poses
barrier to learning, by Anita Shrestha (ht
09/0/2016) [!!]
How
Palpa
is making great strides to keep kids in school:
Out-of-school children numbers down to 604 from 9,200 in
2011, by Madhav Aryal (kp 08/08/2016)
School
education:
Study paints bleak picture of learning achievement,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 06/08/2016), Girls
outdo
boys (kp 06/08/2016)
DEOs
block
bank accounts of schools (ht 06/08/2016)
Homecoming:
Why
Nepalis who studied abroad are choosing to come home in
growing numbers, by Ugyen Lama (nt 05/08/2016)
Floods,
landslides
damage 14 schools in Parbat (ht 04/08/2016)
Budget
shortage
delays reconstruction of schools (ht 03/08/2016)
Quake-resistant
buildings
for school (ht 03/08/2016)
Assess
impact
of landslides, floods on schools, DEOs told (ht
01/08/2016)
NCED
to
run virtual classes in 11 earthquake-affected districts
(ht 29/07/2016)
The
quest to go virtual (rep 29/07/2016)
Govt
ill-prepared to ensure free school education (rep
28/07/2016)
MCCN
sister
wings warn of indefinite school closure (kp
26/07/2016) [The closure of
schools is criminal and idiotic!]
Schools
fail
to follow arts curriculum (ht 25/07/2016)
Stage
set
for Kathmandu Post Career Edufair: Over 150 colleges,
universities and educational consultancies from Nepal
and abroad participating in the three-day event (kp
22/07/2016), Kathmandu
Post
Career Edufair kicks off, Students
flock
to event to learn about courses, by Prasun Sangroula
(kp 23/07/2016), Fair
catching
fancy of visiting students (kp 24/07/2016), The
Kathmandu
Post Edufair concludes with stunning success (kp
25/07/2016)
Task
force
formed to review school fee fixation criteria (ht
18/07/2016)
Power
and
discourse: Lack of an inclusive education system makes
Nepalis ignorant of each other’s cultures and ways of
life, by Abhishek Mallik (kp 12/07/2016)
Where
classes
are run in veranda (ht 08/07/2016)
Campaigns
for literacy, by Bicram Rijal (rep 08/07/2016)
Education
and
publicity: Adopting the new grading system without
ensuring quality will have serious consequences, by
David Kainee (kp 07/07/2016)
Education
and
policy: A stark case of inconsistency can be seen in the
government’s policy as a result of pressure
exerted by private school operators, by Shak Bahadur
Budhathoki (kp 05/07/2016)
Education
Act
to be amended: Pokhrel (ht 04/07/2016)
Amended
Education Bill And Issue Of Quality, by Kushal
Pokharel (rn 02/07/2016)
How
safe are our school buildings?, by Bishnu Prasad
Aryal (rep 02/07/2016)
HSEB
formally
transformed into National Examination Board (ht
01/07/2016), National
Examination
Board comes into being (rep 01/07/2016)
A
model government school: How does a community school in
Bhaktapur achieve almost 100 per cent in SLC results
year after year?, by Shreejana Shrestha (nt
01/07/2016)
President
authenticates
amended Education Act (kp 30/06/2016), School
Mismanagement
Committee: The eighth amendment to the Education Act
rectifies one mistake and commits another, by Om
Astha Rai (nt 01/07/2016), Grading
the
grades: The new letter grading system for school exams,
though well-intentioned, has left everyone confused,
by Sahina Shrestha (nt 01/07/2016)
Community-based
School Management: The Role Politics Plays, by Mukti
Rijal (rn 30/06/2016)
UNICEF:
69m
kids could die from preventable causes by 2030: Only
41pc poorest has access to early childhood education in
Nepal (kp 29/06/2016) [see UNICEF
report]
Floodwater
enters
quake-hit school, disrupts classes (ht 29/06/2016) [Many thanks to this irresponsible
and incompetent government and adminstration!]
Students
encouraged
to pursue technical education (ht 29/06/2016)
Letter
grading
system confusing students (ht 28/06/2016)
Welcome
Step In A Limbo, by Prem Khatry (rn 28/06/2016)
Education
still
not a priority in disaster responses: Report: An
estimated 3.2 million children in Nepal were affected,
both physically and mentally, by the 2015 April
earthquake (kp 23/06/2016), ‘Education
not
getting due priority’ (ht 23/06/2016)
Govt
urged
to ensure free education for all (ht 22/06/2016)
Baglung
declared
fully literate (ht 19/06/2016)
SLC
results
out, new school system in: 10-year schooling practice
comes to end after over eight decades; 97 percent students
eligible to enrol themselves in Grade 11, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 17/06/2016), Students
utterly
at sea over SLC results: Experts blame govt for failing to
demystify letter grading system, by Binod Ghimire (kp
19/06/2016), New
SLC
grading system reflects students’ capability better,
interview with Mana Prasad Wagle (kp 20/06/2016), A+
SLC Result And New Problems, by Nandalal Tiwari (rn
20/06/2016)
Consolidated
education
act in offing, says Minister Pokharel (ht 16/06/2016)
Still
a
lot to learn: Reducing the disparity between public and
private education should be the government’s main concern,
by Kahar Singh Khadka (kp 14/06/2016)
A
crisis of care: Why is Nepal’s education system so
tattered?, by Niranjan Kunwar (kp 11/06/2016)
Stage
set
for the 10th ECAN Edu Fair (kp 10/06/2016), Leaving
on
a jet plane, by Binod Ghimire (kp 10/06/2016), Most
preferred
destinations (kp 10/06/2016), Look
before
you leap (kp 10/06/2016), 10th
ECAN
education fair kicks off in Capital (kp 11/06/2016)
Girl
students
continue to face discrimination, by Binod Ghimire (kp
07/06/2016), The
battle
continues: Nation should introspect and change its
attitude towards educating girls (kp 08/06/2016)
School
enrollment
campaign becomes ineffective, by Rekha Bhusal (rep
07/06/2016)
House
paves
way for phasing out SLC, by Binod Ghimire (kp
05/06/2016), A
fair shake: Twelve years of school was long overdue but a
lot depends on how we go about it (kp 06/06/2016), School
termination
exams now in Grade XII (ht 06/06/2016), SLC
after
class 12 under amended Education Act (kp 06/06/2016),
School
Leaving
Certificate exam after grade 12: When new provisions come
into force, students will be able to join any stream after
completing tenth grade (kp 08/06/2016), Students
preparing
for SLC in dilemma, by Kokila KC (ht 08/06/2016), Revised
act
requires new private schools to operate under trusts
(rep 08/06/2016), Education
Act
Amendment: Focus Should Be On Quality, by Mukti Rijal
(rn 09/06/2016), Bill
bars
opening of schools as company, by Ram Kumar Kamat (rep
09/06/2016), Flawed
provision:
The new bar will have the effect of driving away any
entrepreneur who would like to enter into the education
sector (ht 10/06/2016), Existing
school
system to prevail until new curriculum is developed
(rep 15/06/2016)
Two-year
‘every
last child’ drive gets under way: Campaign aims to reach
the most deprived girls in the four target districts
(kp 05/06/2016)
Over
300
schools being reconstructed in Tanahun (ht 05/06/2016)
A
history of interruptions: A look at a few different
forces, political and otherwise, that continue to shape
Nepal’s educational landscape, by Niranjan Kunwar (kp
04/06/2016)
Catching
up:
Although it is the home district of Education Minister
Giriraj Mani Pokhrel, the literacy rate in Mahottari is
only 46 per cent, by Santa Gaha Magar (nt 03/06/2016)
Action
sought
against schools charging high fees (ht 01/06/2016), Pvt
schools
going above govt ceiling, by Binod Ghimire (kp
02/06/2016), Clarification
sought
from private schools over fee hikes (rep 02/06/2016)
Rural
Jhapa
villages yearn for secondary schools, by Raju Adhikari
(rep 31/05/2016)
Advertising
of
schools: Is it good for consumers?, by Shree Prasad
Devkota, Ramesh Chaulagain and Shiba Bagale (ht 30/05/2016)
Students
facing
hard time in makeshift classrooms, by Sudp Kaini (kp
29/05/2016)
Special
focus
on schools (kp 29/05/2016), Rs
1.2t
school plan announced with little cash: Only Rs3b
secured of Rs240b expected from donors, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 30/05/2016), NCE-Nepal
slams
budget for education (ht 31/05/2016), Budget
does
little to uplift quality of education: Educationists
(rep 31/05/2016)
Keeping
children
in classrooms: Nearly 550 schools were damaged in Kavre,
and 90 per cent of the classes are running in temporary
learning centres (TLCs), by Sahina Shrestha (nt
27/05/2016)
Lead
exposure
affecting schoolchildren’s growth (ht 26/05/2016)
Construction
of
school block left in limbo for nine years (ht
26/05/2016)
House
panel
finalises bill to amend Edu Act (kp 25/05/2016), House
panel
endorses bill on Education Act amendment: Provision for
registration of private schools as cooperatives scrapped
under pressure, by Binod Ghimire (kp 26/05/2016)
Win-all:
Schools
must do more to bring students out of their classrooms and
into the community, by Elisha Shrestha (rep
25/05/2016)
Children
overburdened
with heavy schoolbags, by Kokila KC (kp 22/05/2016)
Many
children
still out of schools in Mahottari, by Mahesh Kumar Das
(rep 21/05/2016)
Pvt
school
lobby jostles to stop edu reforms (kp 21/05/2016)
Distributors
padlock
JEMC to protest textbook shortfall (rep 20/05/2016)
Govt
launching
school reconstruction today (ht 19/05/2016)
Pvt
schools
charging high fees (kp 18/05/2016)
NCE
seeks
more budget for education (ht 17/05/2016)
Early
childhood
development: Importance of preschools, by Neha K.C.
(ht 16/05/2016)
Pvt
schools
serve seven days’ ultimatum to govt (ht 14/05/2016)
Student
crunch
hits schools, by Tekendra Deuba (ht 14/05/2016)
EU,
UNICEF
to build 650 learning centres (kp 12/05/2016)
Non-formal
Education:
Tool For Civic Education, by Mukti Rijal (rn
12/05/2016)
NCE
hails
govt’s policy and programme (ht 12/05/2016)
Falling
education
standard: Community school teachers held responsible
(ht 10/05/2016)
MoE
to
intensify monitoring of schools (ht 09/05/2016),
Joint secy-led high level teams begin school fee
monitoring (ht 10/05/2016), School
monitoring
continues (ht 11/05/2016)
Madrasas
demand
status on par with government schools (ht 09/05/2016)
Terrified
students:
Schools are overburdening small children with work to
appear modern and standard, by Meghraj Rasaili (kp
08/05/2016)
Student
unions
join govt team to review school fees: Ministry of
Education forms two teams to reveiw tuition and admission
fees of private schools (kp 07/05/2016), High-level
committee
formed to monitor schools: Schools will be directed to
return fees charged against the rules (ht 07/05/2016)
Community
schools
charging fee (ht 06/05/2016)
Private
schools
flouting govt directives, by Kokila KC (ht 05/05/2016)
DoE
starts
monitoring schools in Valley (ht 04/05/2016)
ANNISU-R
declares
closure of Valley schools (ht 03/05/2016)
Private
Schools & TU Professors: Saga Of A Sweet/Sour Relation,
by Prem Khatry (rn 03/05/2016)
Up
to
19,000 children out of school in Kapilvastu, by
Manoj Poudel (kp 01/05/2016)
Students’
safety
in schools, colleges in question, by Kokila KC (ht
28/04/2016)
Community
schools
thriving in Nawalparasi (ht 28/04/2016)
Private
schools
hike fee, disregard Supreme Court order (ht
28/04/2016), Not
so
fast: The Education Ministry's directive on fee ceilings
and basic standards has upset private schools, by
Umesh Raj Regmi (kp 29/04/2016)
Education
ministry
to upgrade 125 TLCs (ht 27/04/2016)
Classroom
roofs
blown away (ht 27/04/2016)
New
academic
session, a time to ‘milk’ parents, by Raju Adhikari
(rep 25/04/2016)
Safer
schools:
Children are still inside buildings not knowing when the
roof would collapse, by Prajjwal Kumar Dahal (kp
24/04/2016)
Community
schools
in Kaski attracting hordes of students (ht
23/04/2016)
Rs.
1.7
million collected through social media to construct
school blocks, by Bira Gadal (rep 23/04/2016)
Textbook
shortage
hits students in many districts (kp 22/04/2016), Saptari
students
face textbook shortage (ht 22/04/2016)
Over
13,000
children out of school in Sindhuli (ht 22/04/2016)
Community
schools
face textbook shortage (kp 21/04/2016)
Federal
Constitution Focus On Restructuring Education, by
Mukti Rijal (rn 21/04/2016)
Theory
and
practical tests in SLC exams to be marked separately
(ht 20/04/2016)
Children
pick,
sell berries to pay for school, by Janak KC (rep
20/04/2016)
Schools
refuse
to heed govt directives (ht 20/04/2016)
Textbooks
crunch
hits far-west (ht 20/04/2016)
CDC
starts
monitoring price of school textbooks (ht 19/04/2016)
Plus
II
curriculum revision in final phase (ht 19/04/2916)
Tech
education
helping Karnali communities, by LP Devkota (kp
18/04/2016)
Textbook
distribution
begins (ht 18/04/2016)
School
enrollment
campaign launched (ht 16/04/2016)
Community
schools
on enrolment drive, by Pratikshya Kafle (kp
15/04/2016)
A
bad lesson: Inclusion of real guardians in the SMC and
barring party politics in school need effective
enforcement, by Shak Bahadur Budhathoki (kp
12/04/2016)
SLC
examinations
conclude (ht 12/04/2016)
Public
school
students unlikely to get coursebooks on time (ht
11/04/2016)
Teacher
detains
SLC student over fee row, by Purna BK (kp
08/04/2016)
Testing
times:
General view is if late-night mugging can lead to a good
performance, other performances become immaterial,
by Deepak Thapa (kp 07/04/2016)
Printing
of
school textbooks completed, claims JEMC, by Kokila
KC (ht 07/04/2016)
Community
Schools:
Dismal return on investment, by Arjun Oli (rep
06/04/2016)
Guardians
demand
implementation of fee fixation directives (ht
05/04/2016)
Attention
policymakers:
Our education system is still imparting skills taught to
our forefathers or grandfathers, by Hari Sharma (kp
03/04/2016)
Lack
of
infrastructure, teachers hit Bajura schools (ht
03/04/2016)
The
order
of education: The SLC is but the culmination of 10 years
of the same system, one designed to churn out students
who are little more than automatons, by Pranaya SJB
Rana (kp 02/04/2016)
Tarai
examinees
return dejected (kp 01/04/2016) [Highest
responsibility goes to the top politicians' way to push
the constitution through!]
In
praise
of misfits: Spatial skills are particularly untapped in
countries like Nepal, by Amita P. Sen (kp
01/04/2016)
First
day
of SLC examinations passes off peacefully and ‘fairly’
(ht 01/04/2016), SLC
examinations
kick off (ht 01/04/2016)
Quake-hit
SLC
students have difficulty preparing for finals, by
Prakash Adhikari (kp 30/03/2016)
SLC
students
at sea over grading system: 615,553 taking the exam that
is set to start tomorrow, by Binod Ghimire (kp
29/03/2016), SLC
blues:
Which grading system is used is not as significant as
what or how students learn (kp 30/03/2016), Over
615,000
taking SLC exam from today (kp 31/03/2016), SLC
examinations begin today: OCE to provide examinees
‘application memo’ on the last day (ht 31/03/2016),
Give
extra
time: One should realize that by providing the
differently-abled with extra time for exams is not doing
them a favour, but it is their right (ht
31/03/2016), Invigilators
hesitant
to give extra time to disabled SLC examinees, by
Kokila KC (ht 02/04/2016)
Sir,
not
again: Private schools have been hiking the fees
annually giving all sorts of lame reasons, by Shree
Prasad Devkota and Shiba Bagale (kp 25/03/2016), Profit
determinant
of pvt school fees (kp 26/03/2016)
Setting
the
score, by Priyanka Gurung (rep 25/03/2016)
Dozens
of
community study centres in a lurch (ht 25/03/2016)
Redefining
education:
Students in rural Nepal do not understand social studies
because those who wrote their books may not have seen
the "society" on the ground, by Shyam Sharma (rep
24/03/2016)
Public
school
books not to cost more this session (kp 23/03/2016)
Agro-based
curriculum
to be launched in e-villages (ht 21/03/2016)
Learning
it
right: An education system obsessed with traditional
form of examination defeats its own purpose, by
Sanjeev Dahal (kp 20/03/2016)
141
schools
told to close (kp 19/03/2016)
Private
sector
leads school education, by Binod Ghimire (kp
18/03/2016), Scientific
system
key to resolving fee dispute (kp 18/03/2016), Choosing
school
for kids, by Gaurav Thapa (kp 18/03/2016), Implementation
of
tuition fee guidelines unlikely, by Kokila KC (ht
18/03/2016)
63
students
from quake-ravaged Gorkha ineligible for SLC exams,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 17/03/2016)
Amendment
to
education act-1972: House committee set to discuss bill
(kp 16/03/2016)
Letter
grading
system to be used in SLC for first time, by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 16/03/2016)
Private
schools
headed toward breach of fee rules (rep 15/03/2016)
Early
marriage
severely hampering school education, by Narendra
Upadhya (rep 15/03/2016)
DEO
clears
payment before construction of school structures (ht
14/03/2016)
Jajarkot
district
fully literate (ht 13/03/2016)
PABSON
rejects
school fee fixation criteria (ht 11/03/2016)
Change
the
school: We are not teaching our children how to think,
how to analyze context, how to synthesize materials, and
how to write effectively, by Bishal Paudel (rep
10/03/2016)
JSSK
slow
to print as school year nears (kp 07/03/2016)
Politics
mars
Dadeldhura Education Campus (ht 07/03/2016)
SLC
students
sans textbooks (ht 06/03/2016)
615,553
students
sitting for this year’s SLC exams, by Ruby Rauniyar
and Praveen Kumar Yadav (rep 05/03/2016)
SLC
examination:
Girls outnumber boys in one category, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 03/03/2016)
‘Earthbag’
building
for school, by Pratap Bista (kp 01/03/2016)
Education
In Nepal: Failing?, by Prem Khatry (rn 01/03/2016),
Time
to
change (ht 01/03/2016)
National
Education
Commission in offing (ht 29/02/2016)
ECAN
election
for new leadership to be held today (ht 27/02/2016),
Pandey
elected
ECAN president (ht 29/02/2016)
Plumbing
and
wiring training appeals to youths, by Kisan Sangeet
Nepali (rep 27/02/2016)
Quake-maimed
children
discontinue education: In Ghumtang village alone there
are 15 children who lost their limbs in the quake,
by Anish Tiwari (kp 26/02/2016)
Lessons
for
the future: With new classrooms in place, attendance
levels are picking up at schools in Sindhupalchok,
by Yu Wei Liew (nt 26/02/2016)
Designing
of
school textbook on red panda begins in east (ht
25/02/2016)
School
reconstruction
set to begin from Lalitpur (kp 23/02/2016)
Dynamism
in
education system: New policy needed, by Karna
Bahadur Shahi (ht 23/02/2016)
Books
with
pictures in Braille for schoolchildren (kp
23/02/2016)
Gorkha
schools
run under tents, by Sudip Kaini (kp 22/02/2016)
Campaign
to
keep poor kids in school, by Aash Gurung (kp
19/02/2016)
Campaign
to
educate children of brick kiln workers launched (ht
19/02/2016)
Go
easy,
teachers: Using corporal punishment to maintain order in
the classroom is an obsolete concept, by Durga
Gautam (kp 19/02/2016)
Schools
directed
to keep unused teachers and grants in pool (ht
19/02/2016)
Edukhabar
launches
mobile application targeting SLC students (ht
18/02/2016)
Investigative
committee
formed to monitor illegal schools in Kailali (ht
17/02/2016)
Reconstruction
of
quake affected schools starts (ht 17/02/2016)
Whither
education
policy? Good private schools are being praised for the
wrong reasons and the rest are selling snake oil, by
Shyam Sharma (rep 16/02/2016)
SLC
controller
suffers brain hemorrhage (kp 16/02/2016)
MoE
appeals
to monitor textbook availability, distribution (ht
16/02/2016)
SLC
around
the corner but courses just halfway, by Janak KC
(rep 15/02/2016)
JEMC
starts
printing question papers for SLC examinations: OCE said
it will take around a month to print question papers and
dispatch them to all 75 districts (ht 11/02/2016)
Plan
to
encourage menstruating girls to attend school, by
Maheshwor Chamling Rai (rep 08/02/2016)
SSK
raises
prospect of another book shortage (kp 07/02/2016)
Providing
quality
education still a challenge: Experts (ht 07/02/2016)
Quake-hit
school
runs classes under open sky: Tents received from
organisations after the earthquake have torn up, by
Aash Gurung (kp 06/02/2016)
Students
braced
for SLC sans teachers, by Bhim Chapagain (rep
06(02/2016)
Back
to
classrooms: Students of three schools in Banskharka VDC
of Sindhupalchowk leave tents to study in earthquake
resistant classrooms (ht 06/02/2016)
Indian
schools
start registration process: With 10 days remaining for
the deadline, 11 out of 14 schools that were running
without registration have initiated the process (kp
04/02/2016)
Discussion
starts
on bill to amend Education Act (kp 02/02/2016)
700
schools
shut in Rautahat, Parsa due to cold (ht 27/01/2016)
Illusion
of
change: It has been reported that all students appearing
in SLC exams will now automatically pass. But 'all pass'
is more a myth than reality, by Swagat Raj Pandey
(rep 27/01/2016)
Redefining
education:
Integrity perspective, by Santosh Gautam (ht
26/01/2016)
Barpak
schools
in no shape to run properly, by Ramesh Kumar Poudel
(rep 26/01/2016)
New
education
policy: Ministry seeks high-level panel to draft
document, by Binod Ghimire (kp 26/01/2016)
DoE
seeks
details of religious schools (ht 22/01/2016)
Govt
to
establish technical school in each constituency (kp
17/01/2016) [Why on the basis of
the 240 constituencies?? Besides, there will only be 165
constituencies in future according to the new
constituion!]
Ways
To Facilitate SLC Candidates, by Chirajibi Niroula
(rn 16/01/2016)
Quake-hit
schools
operate classes under tarpaulins, by Anish Tiwari
(kp 15/01/2016), Lothar
schoolchildren
endure elements, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 15/01/2015)
Govt
ultimatum
to Indian schools: Get registered in a month or face
closure, by Binod Ghimire (kp 14/01/21016), Schools
with
foreign curricula told to register (ht 19/01/2016)
Private
education
regulation: Middle path is best, by Shak Bahadur
Budhathoki (ht 14/01/2016)
Quake-ravaged
schools
to be rebuilt in 3 years (kp 12/01/2016)
New
education
policy a must: Minister Pokharel (ht 12/01/2016)
Cost
of
education: The issue of fees in Nepal’s private schools
has been intensely contested, by Shak Bahadur
Budhathoki (kp 11/01/2016)
‘Misuse’
of
reconstruction funds rampant in Kavre schools: Govt has
allocated Rs430m to build temporary learning centres in
the areas where the school buildings were destroyed by
the quakes, by Nagendra Adhikari (kp 10/01/2016)
Education
Act:
Pvt sector lobbies for favourable amendments (kp
10/01/2016)
All
about
education: The fight for people's rights continues after
10 years of abolition of monarchy, two Constituent
Assemblies and five proletariat PMs, by Ghanshyam
Bhatt (rep 04/01/2016)
MPs,
lobbyists
against Edu Act amendment, by Binod Ghimire (kp
03/01/2016)
Pity
the
children: Education sector in Nepal has been badly
disturbed by both the embargo and the earthquake, by
Bal Krishna Basnet (kp 03/01/2016)
Reforming
SLC Grading System, by Chiranjibi Niroula (rn
02/01/2016)
Not
again:
The state-supported publication house should roll up its
sleeves (kp 30/12/2015)
215
temporary
schools constructed in 17 districts (kp 30/12/2015)
School
sector
development: Rs 1 trillion SSDP set to replace SSRP,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 26/12/2015)
Two-thirds
of
kids in child care homes go to pvt schools: Report
(ht 26/12/2015)
School
of
hard knocks: Destroyed in the earthquake, a village
school in ruins gives hope to orphans
Wong Shu Yun (nt 25/12/2015)
Private
Schools: Regulatory Framework Ineffective, by Mukti
Rijal (kp 24/12/2015)
Pvt
schools
mull SLC send-up test (kp 22/12/2015)
Pvt
school
operators against letter grading in SLC exams (kp
21/12/2015)
Schools
in
Janakpur area closed again: Though Morcha cadres agreed
to resume schools, a student union affiliated to
Rastriya Madhes Samajbadi Party shut them down, by
Shyamsundar Shashi (kp 21/12/2015)
Crafty
lessons:
Regular supervision is the least the govt can do to
ensure that a school functions smoothly, by Niranjan
Kunwar (kp 20/12/2015)
Printing
deadline
to be missed, again: JSSK management puts the blame for
the sluggish progress on the delay in supply of printing
paper (kp 20/12/2015), JSSK
told
to submit details (kp 24/12/2015)
SLC
to
begin on March 31 (kp 17/12/2015)
Lack
of
toilets keeping girls away from schools, by Prakash
Singh (ht 17/12/2015)
MoE
advised
to conduct SLC examinations in two phases, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 15/12/2015)
Tarai
unrest:
Birgunj schools allowed to run during day, by Bhusan
Yadav (kp 15/12/2015)
New
edu
policy on cards: Minister (kp 14/12/2015)
SLC
examinations:
Experts warn of problems in letter grading system
(kp 13/12/2015)
Over
20pc
students yet to return to Valley (kp 30/11/2015)
Letter
grading
system in SLC from this year, by Kokila KC (ht
23/11/2015)
Fuel
for
thought: The prolonged closure of schools due to the
fuel shortage and protests could have long-term
consequences for students, by Umesh Raj Regmi (kp
22/11/2015)
MoE
makes
public reform initiatives (kp 21/11/2015)
Tarai
schools
reopen on 98th day, attendence less than half, by
Nirjana Sharma (rep 21/11/2015)
Schools
resume
classes amid fuel shortage (ht 19/11/2015)
Nepal:
Crisis As A Teacher, by Prem Khatry (rn 17/11/2015)
Only
60
per cent pvt schools reopen after festivals, by
Kokila KC (ht 16/11/2015), Resumption
of
schools still uncertain aimd fuel shortage (rep
16/11/2015), Pvt
schools,
colleges demand 15,000 litres of fuel per day, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 17/11/2015), Pvt
schools
to shut if no fuel within week (kp)
An
uphill
struggle It is necessary to engage a wider audience to
solve the problems that plague Nepal’s education system,
by Niranjan Kunwar (kp 15/11/2015)
‘Madhes
stir
affecting children’s education’ (ht 09/11/2015)
Siraha
schools
ordered to resume classes: Schools have remained shut in
various Tarai district, including Siraha, for the past
84 days due to the indefinite strike (kp
06/11/2015))
Schools
told
not to waste entire academic year blaming Tarai stir
(ht 04/11/2015)
School
closures:
Unicef concerned over disturbances (kp 30/10/2015),
Future
of
over a million Nepali children at risk, says UNICEF
(ht 30/10/2015
JEMC
unlikely
to meet printing target (ht 29/10/2015)
Govt
asks
DEOs to reopen Tarai schools (ht 29/10/2015)
CDC
preparing
new textbooks for Grade IX (ht 28/10/2015)
SLC
Grading System, by Ganesh Bahadur Singh (rn
27/10/2015)
Govt
to
launch literacy classes from Nov 17 (ht 27/10/2015)
Decks
cleared
for SSRP (kp 20/10/2015)
Bhaktapur
set
to be declared fully literate (ht 17/10/2015)
Rebuilding
quake-hit
schools expected to take 3-5 years, by Nirjana
Sharma (rep 17/10/2015)
50
students
pass SLC after retotalling scores (ht 11/10/2015)
Early
Dashain
holidays sought (ht 09/10/2015), Most
pvt
schools to close from next week (ht 09/10/2015)
School
closure
complaint at NHRC (ht 06/10/2015)
Psycho-social
training
for govt teachers begins (kp 05/10/2015)
Govt
permits
private firms to print school textbooks, by Kokila
KC (kp ht 03/10/2015), CDC
calls
pvt firms to renew their licences (ht 08/10/2015)
Fuel
crisis
hits Valley schools hard: Say they will be forced to
halt academic activities, if shortage continues, by
Kokila KC (kp 30/09/2015)
Taplejung
school
has nil SLC results 3 years in row, by Ananda Gautam
(kp 27/09/2015)
Almost
6,000
children out of school (ht 25/09/2015) [related to
Rukum]
Paper
points
out priorities in education sector (ht 23/09/2015)
Fact
and
fiction: Going by the past records, there are reasons to
doubt the claimed spike in adult literacy rate, by
Ramesh Shrestha (kp 15/09/2015)
‘Let
schools
operate without obstructions’: About 3.2 million
students have been deprived of education due to protests
and bandas in Tarai (kp 14/09/2015)
Past
and
future: If history is taught in a fun way to young
students, they could be more concerned about the
country’s future, by Niranjan Kunwar (kp 13/09/2015)
SLC
chance
exam results by next week: OCE (ht 12/09/2015)
Top
schools,
colleges honoured (ht 09/09/2015)
Banda
keeps
3m kids off school: Over 20,000 schools and colleges
shut; 50 of the 220 academic days lost due to quakes and
banda (kp 08/09/2015), DoE
tells
its subordinate bodies to resume schools: Around
two dozen parties in the past had agreed not to shut
schools and involve students in political activities
(kp 09/09/2015)
Sweltering
makeshift
classrooms sickens students, by Narahari Sapkota
(rep 08/09/2015)
Students
from
poor family skip school to care for sibling, by
Janak K.C. (rep 08/09/2015)
Informal
education
opens doors, by Nirjana Sharma (rep 08/09/2015)
Women
outnumber
men in adult literacy (ht 08/09/2015)
Future
gains:
The govt should do more to reduce the dropout rate of
school-going children (kp 08/09/2015)
1,500
children
out of schools in Baglung, by Prakash Baral (kp
07/09/2015)
Nepal
to
achieve cent per cent adult literacy by December, by
Kokila KC (ht 07/09/2015) [??? In our village, about 20 percent of the people
are not able to write their own name! The situation in
other villages of the district is similar!!]
Adult
literacy
rate reaches 92 pc: NFEC (kp 04/09/2015) [??],
92.5
pc
of Nepalis between 15 and 60 years literate: NFEC
(ht 04/09/2015), Govt
claims
dramatic spike in adult literacy, by Nirjana Sharma
(rep 04/09/2015)
Agitating
parties
pledge not to force closure of schools (ht
02/09/2015)
Integrity
education:
Setting the scene, by Santosh Gautam (ht 02/09/2015)
Parenting
education:
Gaining in popularity, by Geeta Subedi (ht
21/08/2015)
Over
218
children remote Sindhuplachowk VDCs deprived of
education, by Dhruva Dhangal (rep 19/08/2015)
JSSK,
Sajha
to publish textbooks (kp 18/08/2015)
Smart
Board
to replace traditional pedagogy (ht 18/08/2015)
Education
for
all goals: Government likely to miss target this year
(ht 17/08/2015)
Schools,
universities
see surge in drop-outs, by Nirjana Sharma (rep
15/08/2015)
Pays
to
study: There is a need to transform public education in
Nepal from a symbol of despair to a beacon of hope,
by Ram C. Chandra (kp 11/08/2015)
18
community
schools shut in Tanahun (ht 07/08/2015)
SLC
chance
exams begin (ht 06/08/2015)
Budget
inadequate
to ensure free, compulsory education: Article 17 of the
draft constitution envisions providing free and
compulsory education to all up to the secondary level
(kp 29/07/2015)
18
districts
declared literate (kp 27/07/2015)
Student
union
padlocks four community schools (kp 24/07/2015)
MoE
starts
discussion on education policy (ht 24/07/2015)
Himani
Trust
to construct schools (ht 24/07/2015)
In
Federal Context: Proposed Panel Should Set Direction,
by Mukti Rijal (rn 23/07/2015)
Valley
private
schools open on holiday ‘This was to make up for loss of
studies after the earthquake’ (ht 21/07/2015)
‘Continuous
Education’
programme this year (ht 20/07/2015)
Literacy
campaign
a damp squib, by Kokila KC (ht 17/07/2015
Fund
for
earthquake-affected schools frozen due to feud (ht
16/07/2015)
Schools
running
classes in unsafe structures (ht 15/07/2015)
School
pupil
numbers in steady decline: Report, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 14/07/2015)
DoE
directs
action against schools (ht 14/07/2015)
Course
correction:
By fixing the education system, Nepal could take the
most important step towards inclusive growth, by Ram
C. Acharya (kp 14/07/2015)
Total
literacy
mission way behind schedule, by Nirjana Sharma (rep
13/07/2015)
Teachers
are
to blame for degrading public school education: Official
(ht 11/07/2015)
Quota
for
school with zero result: ‘Such schools must be
encouraged, not punished’ (ht 10/07/2015)
Temporary
solutions:
Schooling allows children to regain a crucial sense of
routine that helps them to come to terms with their
experiences, by Umesh Raj Regmi (kp 09/07/2015)
Govt
policy
and programs bring disappointment to education sector
(rep 09/07/2015)
Commission
to
be set up for education sector reforms (ht
09/07/2015)
Sankhu
school
gets new quake-resistant building, by Anup Ojha (kp
05/07/2015)
Khotang
stakeholders
pledge to improve SLC results (ht 05/07/2015)
Schools
with
nil results to face music (ht 04/07/2015)
Is
bamboo
schools the answer?, by Sharada Adhikari (ht
04/07/2015)
Schools
at
risk: Earthquake resistent features such as horizontal
bands and stones at the corners are generally not
provided in school buildings, by Keshab Sharma (rep
04/07/2015)
9th
ECAN
Int’l Education Fair starts (kp 03/07/2015), Over
40,000
footfalls on second day of ECAN Int’l Education Fair
(kp 04/07/2015), ECAN
Int’l
Edu Fair draws over 60k on Day 3 (kp 05/07/2015), ECAN
fair
concludes with overwhelming participation (kp
06/07/2015)
Students
still
await textbooks, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 03/07/2015)
Flood-affected
schools
build new classrooms, by Durgalal KC (kp 02/07/2015)
Plan
afoot
to declare Lamjung a fully literate district (ht
01/07/2015)
Students
displaced
by quake, landslides miss their classes: Reopening of
schools is the least of the concern of displaced
families rummaging for food and shelter, by Harihar
Singh Rathaur (kp 30/06/2015)
Book
crunch
hits Khotang (ht 30/06/2015)
Licences
of
41 Rautahat schools scrapped, 52 merged (ht
30/06/2015)
Technical
SLC
results 2015: Most students pass with ‘B’ grade, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 29/06/2015), Technical
stream
SLC results in grade system (ht 29/06/2015)
Education
minister
not happy with SLC result (ht 29/06/2015)
Khimti
children
risk lives to reach school: Local residents say the
children have no alternative route to go to their school,
by Tika Prasad Bhatta (kp 28/06/2015)
Theory
of
everything: Communicating science effectively can help
do away with superstitions as demonstrated by media
post-quake, by Ananda Kafle (kp 28/06/2015)
NBC
to
be followed while reconstructing schools (ht
28/06/2015)
A
new public model, by Binod Ghimire (kp 27/06/2015)
Universal
deceit:
We have to get rid of the small-minded idea of a
nationalized exam that fails too many students, expexially
those who are already marginalized, by Shyam Sharma
(rep 27/06/2015)
Textbook
crisis
in far-west remote villages (ht 27/06/2015), Govt
to
review textbook distribution (ht 29/06/2015)
SLC
System: From Rhetoric To Reality, by Kushal Pokharel
(rn 27/06/2015)
Shining
Public Schools, by Birat Anupam (rn 27/06/2015)
So
much
needs to change: Despite Khotang’s giving birth to a host
of luminaries, the district remains backward; That is
perhaps why my district fared so poorly in the recent SLC,
by Dewan Rai (kp 27/06/2015)
Retrofit
schools:
Still ample time, by Vikash Raj Satyal (ht 26/06/2015)
Some
quake-damaged
schools need to be merged: Experts, by Kokila KC (ht
25/06/2015)
Boy
ploughs
field to pay college fee, by Chetan Adhikari (kp
24/06/2015)
Enrollment
affected,
dropout rate to go up (ht 24/06/2015)
Silver
lining
Increase in the pass percentage of public school students
is a good sign (kp 23/06/2015)
Educating
Jhapa
women thru campaign (ht 23/06/2015)
Tuition
fee
row: Monitoring of pvt schools kicks off (kp
22/06/2015), Private
schools
found fleecing parents: Overcharging under various
headings against govt directive (ht 23/06/2015)
Schools
cornering
parents for quake repair funds, by Nirjana Sharma (rep
22/06/2015)
Around
125,000
to sit for SLC supplementary test in August (kp
21/06/2015)
47.43
pc
students pass SLC test, by Binod Ghimire (kp
20/06/2015), Only
47.43
per cent clear SLC test: Pass percentage below 50 pc for
the 4th year in a row, by Kokila KC (ht 20/06/2015), Community
schools
fare better this year (ht 20/06/2016), 26
schools
produce nil results in SLC (ht 20/06/2015),
47.43%
pass
SLC: More girls took exam but pass percent lower
(rep 20/06/2015), SLC
results
not satisfactory: Stakeholders (ht 21/06/2015), SLC
success
rate of TFN Fellows’ schools up (ht 22/06/2015), Bhaktapur
got
highest pass rate in SLC exams, by Binod Ghimire (kp
24/06/2015)
Textbook
crunch
hits students of Udayapur (ht 20/06/2015)
Lesson
still
to be learnt: he earthquake is an opportunity to rebuild
Nepal’s education system, not just fallen schools, by
Sonia Awale (nt 19/06/2015)
Low
school
attendance: ‘17,000 barred from SLC test’ (kp
18/06/2015)
OCE
says
preparations on to announce SLC results tomorrow (ht
18/06/2015)
8
districts meet literacy target (kp 17/06/2015)
Gorkha
students
lack textbooks (kp 17/06/2015)
DEO
team
to inspect schools that need to be demolished (ht
17/06/2015)
Students
in
remote Gorkha school study under open sky, by Sudip
Kaini (kp 16/06/2015)
Pyuthan
district
declared thumb-impression free, by Devendra Brahma (kp
16/06/2015)
Govt
team
to monitor private institutions, fee structure (ht
15/06/2015)
Textbook
shortage
in Darchula, by Manoj Badu (kp 14/06/2015)
Students
to
protest against refusal to waive fee (ht 14/06/2015),
Pvt
schools
to waive 50 pc fees for quake holidays (kp
15/06/2015), Private
schools
told to waive half month’s fee (ht 15/06/2015), MoE
directs
private schools to waive 50 percent fees for Baisakh
(rep 15/06/2015), A
positive start: Government’s recent decree to private
schools comes as a relief to parents (kp 16/06/2015)
Follow
the
students: As more students from outside the Valley opt out
of studying in Kathmandu’s schools, the government can use
this opportunity to improve the quality of education in
areas far away fromthe centre , by Binod Ghimire (kp
13/06/2015)
Model
schools
in Gorkha, by Chahana Sigdel (kp 12/06/2015)
DEO
starts
monitoring schools in Kaski (ht 12/06/2015)
Nagarkot
school
sees a new day, by Anup Ojha (kp 11/06/2015)
Textbook
crunch
hits remote far-west districts (ht 10/06/2015)
Schools
not
to waive tuition for quake’s sake (kp 09/06/2015)
Student
unions
warn stir against pvt school charge (kp 08/06/2015)
Kathmandu,
Lalitpur
DEOs yet to finish school safety assessment (kp
07/06/2015)
Student
unions
demand free education for homeless, orphaned: Served
three-day ultimatum for the implementation of 10-point
agreement (ht 07/06/2015)
Danger
looms
as classes resume in quake-damaged schools, by Bishal
Bhattarai (rep 06/06/2015)
Private
schools
seek Rs 240 million (ht 05/06/2015)
SLC
results
by June-end: OCE (ht 05/06/2015)
Building
temporary
learning centres in Sindupalchok (kp 03/06/2015)
Panchthar
schools
operating without a single student enrolling (ht
03/06/2015)
Quake
spikes
demand for book on education in emergencies, by Kokila
KC (ht 03/06/2015)
Room
to
Read provides books to schools (kp 03/06/2015), WLN
distributes
course books (kp 03/06/2015)
Donors’support
sought
to rebuild schools (ht 02/06/2015)
Schools
reopen
after five weeks: Three-hour school for a week; Parents
yet to be assured of safety of children, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 01/06/2015), Schools
reopen
in districts amidst uncertainty, confusion, by Harihar
Singh Rathaur (kp 01/06/2015), Schools
reopen
with focus on pyscho-social counselling (ht
01/06/2015), Race
against
time to get kids back to school: UNICEF (ht
01/06/2015), Back
to
school: It is vitally important that students return to
learning environments that are safe, secure (kp
02/06/2015), Handling
Trauma At School, by Prem K. Khatry (rn), Father
Of Man, by Shyam K.C. (rn)
Valley
DEOs
yet to complete school building assessment (kp
31/05/2015)
Schools
reopen
today but uncertainty continues: Students’safety should be
prime concern,say stakeholders; Resuming classes on
outskirts of Lalitpur not easy (ht 31/05/2015), Focus
on
recreational activities, urges MoE (ht 31/05/2015)
Getting
children
back to school a priority (ht 30/05/2015)
CDC
to
include chapter on RTI for ninth graders, by Kokila KC
(ht 30/05/2015)
Schools
reopen
on Sunday: Fears for kids’ safety at school, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 29/05/2015)
A
steep road to recovery: May 31, the date is set;
Principles and teachers in Kathmandu are scrambling about
to resume classes, by Priyanka Gurung (rep 29/05/2015)
Private
schools
say no to call for waiving fee (ht 29/05/2015)
Quake-hit
Lamjung
schools resume morning classes in makeshift tents, by
Aash Gurung (kp 28/05/2015)
Makwanpur
DEO
to set up temp learning centres, by Pratap Bista (kp
28/05/2015)
‘Pvt
schools
suffered loss of Rs 10 billion’ (ht 28/05/2015)
Battered
Education Sector, by Narayan Upadhyay (rn 27/05/2015)
School
building
evaluation: Tardy assessments leave Valley’s schools at
loss (kp 27/05/2015)
Sindhu
schools
face enrolment drought: None among the 34 private schools
in the district are in a condition to resume classes while
at least 12,000 students are out of contact since the
April 25 earthquake, by Rishiram Poudel (kp
27/05/2015)
Literacy
campaign
halted in quake-affected districts, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 26/05/2015)
No
classrooms
as school resumption date nears, by Binod Ghimire (kp
25/05/2015)
Schools
lack
open space to setup makeshift classroom, by Nirjana
Sharma (rep 25/05/2015)
Colleges
in
Valley to reopen today (ht 25/05/2015)
Parents
worry
about children’s studies (kp 24/05/2015)
Remote
districts
reeling under textbook crisis, by Prakash Singh (ht
24/05/2015)
Safety
concern
deprives students of chance to take SAT examination
(ht 24/05/2015)
Bringing
children
back to school, by Kushal Pokharel (rn 23/05/2015)
Schools
reopen
in 13 districts of western region, by Bharat Koirala
(ht 23/05/2015)
200
TLCs
to be set up in Kathmandu, by Kokila KC (ht
22/05/2015)
Reopening
Sindhuli
schools on May 31 next to impossible (ht 22/05/2014)
Visual
assessment
of community schools of Valley near completion (ht
22/05/2015)
Schools
can
decide date on their own to reopen: DoE Those safe to
resume classes should do so from May 31 (ht
21/05/2015), Either
red
or green stickers for schools, by Nirjana Sharma (rep
21/05/2015)
Irregularity
during
recruitment charged (ht 21/05/2015)
Parents
want
schools to resume classes, by Kokila KC (ht
20/05/2015)
Agitation
against
DEO decision to close schools (ht 20/05/2015)
Rebuilding
the
schools (ht 19/05/2015), The
lesson
of Nepal: Fund needs to be created for children, by
Gordon Brown (ht)
Pvt
colleges
to reopen from Sunday, schools week next (kp
18/05/2015)
Schools
reopen
in relief rooms in Kaski (ht 18/05/2015)
Quake
affects
97 Nawalparasi schools (ht 18/05/2015)
DoE
seeks
Rs 4b to run schools (kp 16/05/2015)
Restarting
classes
after the quake, by Bimal Khatiwada (kp 15/05/2015)
Temblors
throw
academic programmes into disarray, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 14/05/2015)
Building
safer
schools: With so many schools damaged or destroyed, the
education of tens of thousands of children will be
affected, by Mattias Bryneson (kp 14/05/2015)
Public
schools
get cash to arrange for classes, by Binod Ghimire (kp
11/05/2015), MoE
allocates
budget for damaged schools (ht 11/05/2015), Parents
reluctant
to send their kids back to school (kp 11/05/2015)
House
panel
suggestions: ‘Engage students in activities after classes
resume’ (ht 11/05/2015)
The
lesson
of Nepal, by Gordon Brown (kp 11/05/2015)
1m
Nepali
kids may not return to school: UNICEF (kp 09/05/2015),
DoE
to
assess schools in Valley from tomorrow: Teams comprising
engineers to take stock of buildings across country to
find whether they are safe to run classes, by Kokila
KC (ht 09/05/2015), MoE
to
set up 12,000 Temporary Learning Centres (ht
09/05/2015), Country’s
schools
hit hard, by Sangita Shrestha (ht 09/05/2015)
Schools
reopen
after quake in Lamjung, by Aash Gurung (kp 09/05/2015)
Many
schools
can’t reopen (kp 08/05/2015)
SLC
results
to be delayed by ‘two weeks’ (kp 07/05/2015)
More
than
800 schools damaged in eastern region (ht 03/05/2015),
Quake
wrecks
schools, colleges in many districts (kp 04/05/2015), Assess
school
buildings: DoE, by Binod Ghimire (kp 05/05/2015), Govt
preparing
to resume classes from May 15 (ht 05/05/2015)
Schools
to
remain shut until May 14 (kp 01/05/2015)
Dropout
rate
‘highest’ among school students in Kanchanpur, by
Bhawani Bhatta (kp 25/04/2015)
Govt
plans
to provide grants to girl students (ht 25/04/2015)
Saptari
students
yet to get textbooks (ht 25/04/2015)
Action
Week
for Education starts tomorrow: Various programmes to be
organised (ht 25/04/2015)
Scholarships
in
pvt schools: Transparency in question (ht
25/04/2015)
The
last
resort: The importance of improving the public education
system in Nepal, by Shisir Khanal (rep 24/04/2015)
School
Education Getting Really Expensive, by Narayan
Upadhyay (rn 22/04/2015)
MoE
names
focal person to look into pvt schools’ issues (ht
22/04/2015)
Illegal
operation
of private schools rampant in Dang, by Devendra
Basnet (rep 22/04/2015)
Illegal
schools
rampant in Rautahat (ht 20/04/2015)
Over
4,500
children out of school in Palpa, by Madhav Aryal (kp
19/04/2015)
More
than
6,000 children out of schools: In Ramechhap, enrollment
drive needs further push (ht 18/04/2015)
Shuvatara
School
shut for indefinite period: Principal says management
left with no option after teachers chose to obstruct
classes (ht 17/04/2015), Shuvatara
row
‘to be resolved’ (kp 19/04/2015)
Bank
account
of dozen schools still frozen (ht 17/04/2015)
Academic
session
starts: Midwest kids await textbooks (kp 16/04/2015)
Schools
told
to use approved books (kp 16/04/2015)
Student
enrollment
drive intensifies (ht 16/04/2015)
Restructuring
traditional
education: Schools for this century, by Shree Prasad
Devkota, Shiba Bagale and Dhundiraj Giri (ht 16/04/2015)
‘Free’
education
not so free, says OAG report, by Binod Ghimire (kp
15/04/2015), Sinking
ships:
Government must straighten out public schools to ensure
free education for all (kp 15/04/2015)
Over
1,000
schools out of service: Report, by Binod Ghimire (kp
14/04/2015)
‘Let’s
make
all schools free of violence’: School Enrollment
Campaign to be launched tomorrow (ht 14/04/2015)
Four
schoolgirls
commit ‘mass suicide’ over poor exam results, by
Manoj Badu (kp 14/04/2015), Four
girls
jump into river ‘after failing in their final exam’
(ht 14/04/2015), Three
bodies
recovered (ht 14/04/2015), Body
of
fourth girl recovered from river (ht 15/04/2015)
JSSK
set
to miss textbook deadline again (kp 13/04/2015)
Committee
hikes
private school fee by 22 percent (kp 13/04/2015), Tuition
fees
for Kathmandu schools up by 22 per cent (ht
13/04/2015), ANNISU-R
protests
fee hike in schools (ht 14/04/2015), Student
unions
protest against tuition fee hike in private schools
(ht 16/04/2015), Student
unions
stage protest in front of DoE (ht 17/04/2015), MoE
discussing
fee revision (ht 18/04/2015), Ministry
to
mediate fee dispute (kp 19/04/2015), Student
unions
picket DEOs across country (ht 20/04/2015), Private
schools
told to roll back fee hike, by Binod Ghimire (kp
21/04/2015), Govt revokes hike in school fees (ht
21/04/2015)
One
room
for two grades in Upper Manang school, by Aash
Gurung (kp 12/04/2015)
Learning
by
doing: Creating and maling things is engaging and full
of fun for children; Taking things apart is as important,
by Usha Pokharel (rep 11/04/2015)
Nepal’s
achievement
in edu sector ‘impressive’ (kp 10/04/2015)
Dalits,
Janajatis,
Madhesis falter in grades (kp 07/04/2015), A
lopsided deal: Despite heavy investment in education,
students’ performance is far from satisfactory, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 07/04/2015), Major
overhaul
necessary, interview with Bidhya Nath Koirala (kp
07/04/2015), Chepangs
dropping
out early to earn living (kp 07/04/2015)
Govt
steps
up efforts to improve technical education (rep
06/04/2015)
‘Female
students
lag behind in learning’: Experts say equal treatment of
daughters could improve their grades (kp 05/04/2015)
Modality
of
technical SLC results yet to be finalised (kp
04/04/2015)
Government
claim
of dwindling illiteracy ‘misleading’: Experts (kp
04/04/2015)
School
reeling
under financial crisis (ht 04/04/2015)
A
school that lacks desk, bench, toilet and water (ht
04/04/2015)
Dalit,
Ethnic
community students score low due to discriminatory
attitude of peers: Study, by Nirjana Sharma (rep
03/04/2015)
Govt
yet
to determine school fee structure (ht 03/04/2015)
Students’
performance
down, shows study, by Binod Ghimire (kp 02/04/2015),
School
performance
declining not just in SLC: Report, by Nirjana Sharma
(rep 02/04/2015)
Household
chores
make students do better in studies; Engagement in house
tasks for couple of hours every day improves
performance: Report (ht 02/04/2015)
Civic
education:
The intellectual base of democracy, by Dev Raj Dahal
(pr 02/04/2015)
Task
force
resumes preparatory work for letter grading system
(ht 31/03/2015)
SLC
exams
conclude (ht 31/03/2015)
SLC
examinations:
Irregularities up despite strict rules (kp
29/03/2015)
School
building
on verge of collapse (ht 29/03/2015)
Govt
forms
high-level edu panel: Members say they are included in
the commission without consultation (kp 28/03/2015),
Govt
forms
17-member education commission (ht 28/03/2015), MoE
officials
uninformed on formation of commission (ht
30/03/2015)
Two-day
edu
fair at Durbarmarg (kp 27/03/2015)
Assaying
the
Iron Gate: A high SLC pass rate by itself is not
sufficient evidence that private schools are providing
relevant learning experiences to children, by Sakar
Pudasaini and Dipeshwor Man Shrestha (kp 27/03/2015)
Crimes
in
education: Education in Nepal is ridden with problems
right from the school to the university level, by
Mana Prasad Wagley and Umesh Raj Regmi (kp 26/03/2015)
Security:
Major Concern For Schools, by Prem Khatry (rn
24/03/2015)
Co-curricular
activities
should be included in our school education (ht
24/03/2015)
Very
little
teaching, learning goes on in public schools,
interview with Kedar Bhakta Mathema (kp 23/03/2015)
16
Ramechhap
schools on verge of closure (ht 21/03/2015)
Education,
Nepali-style:
Here is why students will do well in their School
Leaving Certificate exams this year, by Kathryn S.
March (kp 20/03/2015)
Taking
the
test: SLC exams need reform, but it will be a long,
arduous process (kp 20/03/2015)
SLC
exams
begin today: For the first time in history girls set to
outnumber boys (rep 19/03/2015),
SLC
exams
begin with new reforms (kp 19/03/2015), Impropriety
of
institute proprietor deprives students of exam (ht
19/03/2015), Fee
should
not bar anyone from sitting for tests: OPMCM (ht
19/03/2015), Acid
attack
victims take exam at hospitals (ht 20/03/2015), 84
expelled,four
invigilators suspended on Day 1 (ht 20/03/2015), Invigilators
face
action, students expelled (ht 21/03/2015), 10
SLC
invigilators suspended in Rautahat (ht 23/03/2015),
250
students,
25 invigilators expelled from SLC exams (rep
23/03/2015), 14
invigilators
suspended; 198 examinees expelled (ht 24/03/2015), 19
fake
SLC examinees Arrested (kp 25/03/2015)
Sajha
MD
caught in textbook scam: Education Minister comes under
fire after the publishing house owned by Sajha MD was
caught printing school textbooks illegally, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 19/03/2015)
Government
to
form high-level edu commission, by Binod Ghimire (kp
18/03/2015)
SLC
exam
to be conducted amid upped security: 15 security
personnel at each centre; Strict action against students
breaching code of conduct (ht 18/03/2015), 429
students
not allowed to sit for SLC (ht 18/03/2015), Take
it
easy: As thousands of children are preparing for SLC, I
wonder how many of them are scared, by Anuradha
Sharma (rep 18/03/2015)
Girls
set
to outweigh boys for next decade, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 16/03/2015), The
battle
ahead: Increase in the number of girls appearing for SLC
is heartening, but problems remain (kp 18/03/2015),
Crossing
the
iron gate: Has the rise in the number of girl students
appearing for SLC actually reduced gender gaps in
education?, by Jagannath Adhikari (kp 19/03/2015)
Language
barrier
major cause of high dropout rate in schools, by Raju
Adhikari (rep 16/03/2015)
Examinees’
personal
details available on OCE website (ht 16/03/2015)
Private
schools
seek to double fees (kp 15/03/2015)
Education
And Women In Nepal, by Shree Prasad Devkota and
Shiba Bagale (rn 15/03/2015)
25
community
schools merged in Kaski (ht 15/03/2015)
Non-formal
Education For Active Citizenship, by Mukti Rijal (rn
12/03/2015)
Mastering
English
does not mean quality education (ht 12/03/2015)
Private
firm
prints school books without permission (kp
11/03/2015)
Large
scale
irregularities ail education sector: Of the 2,020 cases
of irregularities filed at the CIAA, 587 were related to
education sector alone, by Madhav Ghimire (kp
10/03/2015)
Dismal
SLC
results expected in Bajura (ht 10/03/2015)
A
handy guide to school admissions: Experts advise not to
go by fancy buildings or higher fees, but to look for
enthusiastic teaching team (ht 10/03/2015)
ECAN
against
MoE halt in registration (kp 09/03/2015)
JSSK
approaches
Sajha for help: The Janak Shiksha Samagri Kendra is yet
to print 403m books to meet its target (kp
08/03/2015)
Govt
schools
form alliance for reforms: Nawalparasi institutions
emulate pvt schools, start English medium classes,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 08/03/2015)
Dispute
delays
literacy drive in 5 districts (kp 07/03/2015)
Learning
from
mistakes: When you start looking at mistakes as learning
opportunities, it will encourage growth, creativity and
free expression in students, by Usha Pokharel (rep
07/03/2015)
Forbidden
territory:
‘The Laramie Project’ provides an opportunity for
families to engage in potentially mind-stretching
conversations, by Niranjan Kunwar (kp 06/03/2015)
Restore
to
life: Scientific education demands serious investment,
not empty promises (kp 04/03/2015)
Need
to
change our education system, by Bikash Gupta (kp
02/03/2015)
Schools
want
15pc fee hike (kp 01/03/2015)
Accessing
education:
The more educated people are, the less inclined they
become towards what they see as less dignified work,
by Samira Paudel (kp 01/03/2015)
Education
for
disabled children a far cry: Govt yet to categorise
types of disabilities to address special needs, by
Kokila KC (ht 28/02/2015), Nepal
may
not meet MDG on education for disabled, by Nirjana
Sharma (rep 28/02/2015)
World
Bank
loan for higher education reform project (kp
21/02/2015)
School
merger
plan: DoE seeks data within two weeks (kp
18/02/2015)
Govt
allows
operating Nepali schools abroad (kp 16/02/2015)
Parbat
schools
sans child-friendly furniture, by Agandhar Tiwari
(kp 16/02/2015)
Charting
a
course: A time of national debate is also a time to
revise school curricula in meaningful and relevant ways,
by Niranjan Kunwar (kp 15/02/2015)
School
textbook
monitoring begins (ht 14/02/2015), Textbooks
fail
to reach students (kp 15/02/2015), Education
Ministry
to speed up textbook monitoring to ensure timely supply
(ht 16/02/2015)
Nine
schools
in Bhaktapur set to face DEO axe (ht 13/02/2015)
NFEC
urges
all concerned to extend support to its literacy campaign
(ht 12/02/2015)
Up
a
grade: Letter grading will help reduce geography-related
discrepancies in education system, by Suman Laudari
(rep 11/02/2015)
‘Broad
master
plan needed to change our education system’,
interview with Kedar Bhakta Mathema (kp 10/02/2015)
Two
more,
too many: Experts say instead of adding two more
universities, the government should invest its focus and
budget on improvement of existing ones (kp
10/02/2015), New
ones
struggle to get by (kp 10/02/2015)
Govt
set
to monitor availability of textbooks in districts
(ht 10/02/2015)
Fear
of
abuse keeping girl students out of school: Rising cases
of violence against women a bane of those who wish to
pursue studies, by Prakash
Singh (ht
08/02/2015)
Children
will
get textbooks before start of academic session: JEMC
(ht 06/02/2015), Action
if
textbooks not delivered on time: Govt (kp
07/02/2015)
Licence
of
43 schools scrapped, some merged (ht 05/02/2015)
School
text
books: JSSK denies Sajha distribution rights (kp
03/02/2015)
Over
500,000
taking SLC tests: Exam to be held for 11 days this year,
will conclude on March 30 (ht 02/02/2015)
Yadav
stresses
effective monitoring of education (ht 02/02/2015)
‘Education
most
corrupt sector’, by Binod Ghimire (kp 01/02/2015), Degrees
of
doubt: Govt must strengthen regulatory bodies to curb
corruption in education (kp 04/02/2015)
6
more districts set to attain total literacy by March,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 31/01/2015)
Perpetual
problem:
Despite delays, publication, distribution of schoolbooks
must stay with govt (kp 30/01/2015)
Discriminatory
Practices In Schools, by Bindu Thapa & Sangita
Pandey (rn 30/01/2015)
18
students
deprived of appearing in SLC, by Harihar Singh
Rathaur (kp 29/01/2015)
Schools
hold
send-up tests: he Ministry of Education has already
scrapped the provision of holding such tests before SLC
examination (kp 28/01/2015)
Except
for
closing Gender disparity in schools, progress in
education slow (kp 27/01/2015)
Against
all
odds: Brave Chepang girls risk life to get education,
by Rameshwor Karki (rep 27/01/2015)
Illiteracy
still
prevails in Nawalparasi (ht 27/01/2015)
Dalit
students
declining in govt schools (ht 27/01/2015)
Dalit
children
deprived of education in remote Mugu, by Raj Bahadur
Shahi (kp 27/01/2015)
School
textbooks
on time unlikely (rep 27/01/2015), Govt
asks
JSSK, Sajha for detailed plan (kp 29/01/2015)
On-the-job
training
part of course for SLC (ht 26/01/2015)
More
resources
needed to educate children: UN (ht 24/01/2015)
By
the
letter: By itself, the adoption of letter grades on the
SLC will not help; outdated methods of teaching and
assessment must also change, by Suresh Mandal (kp
23/01/2015)
DEO
starts
literacy drive, by Lawadev Dhungana (kp 22/01/2015)
[related to Panchthar]
NTA
report
shows Nepal failing to meet WSIS targets, by Ramesh
Shrestha (ht 22/01/2015)
Literacy
budget
cut for 58 districts (rep 19/01/2015)
Book
shortage
looms yet again: Janak Shiksha needs to double
production to meet its target, by Binod Ghimire (kp
18/01/2015)
Students
are
not the problem: Teachers need to step out of their
daily classroom routine and defy the ‘factory’ model of
education, by Umesh Shrestha (kp 18/01/2015)
DEOs
asked
to fix school fees (kp 17/01/2015)
Billions
spent
on literacy drive but many fall through cracks, by
Nirjana Sharma (rep 17/01/2015)
PABSON
not
to hold send-up test: The umbrella body of private
schools reversed its earlier decision following warning
from the Department of Education (kp 15/01/2015)
Ninth
graders
to assist visually impaired in SLC (ht 15/01/2015)
Kalikot
school
becomes a model learning centre, by Tularam Pandey
(kp 15/01/2015)
Start
of
native language classes ups enrolment, by Krishna
Prasad Gautam (kp 14/01/2015)
Private
schools
accused of overcharging students (ht 13/01/2015)
Panchthar
DEO
awarded with ‘Integrity Idol’ (kp 12/01/2015)
ANNISU-R
seeks
action against PABSON, NPABSAN (ht 12/01/2015)
Education
And Ethical Aspects, by Bam Dev Sharma (rn
11/01/2015)
PABSON
flouts
govt rule to hold send-up tests: The government in 2011
amended the education regulation barring schools from
holding send-up tests and selecting students for SLC
examinations (kp 09/01/2015), DoE
seeks
PABSON clarification on send-up tests (ht
10/01/2015)
Letter
grading
in SLC: Task force’s first meeting todayMandated to
submit its study report in three months (ht
09/01/2015)
Govt
to
deliver textbooks to Karnali students on time (rep
09/01/2015)
MoE
mulling
over technical, vocational education (ht 08/01/2015)
Politics
delays
SMC formation in Bajura (ht 08/01/2015)
School
padlocked
for month (ht 08/01/2015)
High-level
panel
to draft new education policy (kp 04/01/2015)
Making
teachers
work: The weak implementation of the education laws is
mainly responsible for the sorry plight of the public
schools (ht 02/01/2015)
Lured
by
good pay, children quit school to herd mules, by
Narahari Sapkota (rep 02/01/2015)
Enrolled
but
absent: Badi children out of school, repeat grades,
by Khagendra Awasthi (kp 01/01/2015)
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