Posted: 2011-03-21
Category: Articles
New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-14
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Several problems plague our education system – from lack of budget and quality to politicization of educational institutions and students being misused as political muscle. Higher education is perhaps the most riddled with these problems. In the past Purvanchal University has been shut down due to protests against corruption, students have padlocked Kathmandu University and Tribhuwan University has had a history of being closed for every whim of the student body. With such disruptions at the very core of knowledge and progress it is quite understandable that our youth seek education elsewhere.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-14
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With the intention of promoting climate change awareness, the British Council holds the International Climate Champion Program in over 60 countries, including Nepal, annually. As the competition grows every year, the youth of Nepal are being taught by their peers and taking initiative to improve the situation in the country.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-14
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Our educational system cannot confirm that the graduates are capable to perform the job required by the market. One can see the job advertisement for different positions in the newspapers requiring communication skills, English language proficiency and computer skills at advanced levels. Majority of our university education system has not been able to produce such human resources.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-09
Category: Articles
Apparently, some prospective students were using their cell phones to search for answers to difficult mathematics and English questions online. This trend of digital copying is already being witnessed in Nepal, particularly among tech-savvy young students.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-09
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Our graduates in several faculties, he emphasised, were good for nothing as far as the use of education, even higher education, was concerned. "You may have an MA or even a Ph. D.," he said, "but what good is your degree when you cannot fix a very simple problem with your radio, and rather you force yourself to remain information blank for days or as long as it takes for you to carry the little machine to the nearby city and find someone to fix it on a handsome payment."
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-03
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Individuals who go through life with mobility or visual impairments or other disabilities are unable to have the so-called normal college experience. Neither they get course books to suit them nor do colleges have infrastructure that are differently-abled friendly. Students who are able to struggle to pursue higher studies have bitter experience as there are no programmes offered either by the colleges or government that are friendly to them.
Read MorePosted: 2011-02-27
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The book exhibition of not-for-profit publishers, Alternative Book Fair, ended on Dec 14. Himal Association organized the fair from Dec 10 at Sabhagriha, Kathmandu.
Read MorePosted: 2011-02-15
Category: Articles
"The punishment for the wise who refuse to take part in politics is to be governed by the fools.” This is an adage proven several times in the context of Nepal, sans being contested. We have been governed by the fools for centuries. Only the difference is that they keep on changing.
Read MorePosted: 2011-02-15
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Aprimary school in Sindhupalchowk has only 27 students in it. But the headmistress, who is the only teacher in the school employed under relief quota system, has appropriated the record to 35.
Read MorePosted: 2011-01-20
Category: Articles
It has been found that some private schools have been flouting the rules and confusing the students and parents. According to reports, some private schools in the country have not complied with the rules and regulations of the government and the instructions of the Higher Education Board, especially relating to running higher education institutions
Read MorePosted: 2011-01-20
Category: Articles
Closing private schools not a solution It is also true that just closing the private schools will not generate quality.This "muscle power" propaganda of the ANNFSU-R will never work in reality.
Read MorePosted: 2011-01-02
Category: Articles
A futile banda (strike) crippled Kathmandu on Dec 24, Christmas Eve. Not only did the strike dampen the festivities of the day; but sent a wrong message so close to the Nepal Tourism Year 2011, for which all parties pledged not to use the banda.
Read MorePosted: 2011-01-02
Category: Articles
Tagged: sex education
Teenagers who have had formal sex education are far more likely to put off having sex, contradicting earlier studies on the effectiveness of such programs, U.S. researchers said。They found teenage boys who had sex education in school were 71 percent less likely to have intercourse before age 15, and teen girls who had sex education were 59 percent less likely to have sex before age 15.
Read MorePosted: 2011-01-01
Category: Articles
Like the previous years, the year 2010 did not have much to offer for the country's troubled education sector, though some steps were encouraging.
Read MorePosted: 2010-12-29
Category: Articles
Tagged: tribhuvan university
Shanker Dev, ASCOL (Amrit Science Campus), Ratna Rajya and Saraswati colleges are other examples of traffic and other disturbances annoying the common people, the pedestrians, for example, the businesses, the government and vehicles with a routine and destinations to serve.
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