Unleashing Nepal: The Power of Education
All about the ills of the education system we have in Nepal and how it can be improved to serve the population and the country.
Unleashing Nepal: Private Institutions, Foreign Education And Preference for Paper Degrees
Short history of the way the education system evolved with the introduction of private schools and even a private University from after 1980. Sadly, education was NOT valued as a means to acquire knowledge and skills, but for the paper degrees. Besides, the institutions themselves struggled to provide quality education -- many imparted no more than just the most basic of skills, that of memorization and regurgitation -- as they mostly functioned as for-profit businesses.
SIT Nepal Fall 2017 Symposium of Student Research
School for International Training holds Independent Student Project symposium showcasing the Independent Student (research) Projects. The student present their topics and share their discoveries. This could be very very useful for undergraduate students in Kathmandu.
When Politics Drives, Education Takes a Backseat
When you put politics in the driver's seat at institutions of higher education, education takes a backseat and, except for a small select group, everyone and the country loses out.
Fake Fake Fake Fake Fake
The intellectual bankruptcy of the two biggest universities in Kathmandu....
Kantipur FM Commentary: Education And Change
To improve a system, just introducing a change is, of course, insufficient. The nature of the change and how it's implemented is as equally important, if not more important. But that, I argue in this Kantipur FM commentary, is missed by those steering the transformation of our education system in Nepal.