Posted: 2012-12-11
Category: News
Though the government´s deadline issued to private higher secondary schools and colleges with Western-sounding names to replace those names within three months expired on November 30, the Higher Secondary School Association, Nepal (HISSAN) has refused to comply.
Read MorePosted: 2012-11-01
Category: News
According to proposed guidelines for private and boarding schools, private schools bearing foreign names will have to switch to Nepali names within six months.
Read MorePosted: 2012-08-20
Category: Education Issues
"The most important question is: How international are the our private schools in the context of curricula‚ students‚ accreditation‚ and assessment procedures? And‚ "Which international context are they talking about?" Talking international is easier than doing it"
Read MorePosted: 2012-08-07
Category: News
The fire of nationalism is spreading in Nepal, although the country has never been technically colonized.
Read MorePosted: 2012-08-07
Category: Education Issues
The government said today it was banning secondary schools from using names like ‘Oxbridge’, ‘White House’ and ‘NASA’ over fears that the education system is losing its Nepali culture.
Read MorePosted: 2012-04-29
Category: Education Issues
“It´s so very surprising, shocking, unsuitable, irrelevant!” comments educationist Ganeshman Gurung. In fact, the ´meaningless´ English names literally give him a headache. “Pentagon! NASA!! White House!!! O my goodness…..What are these?
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