Posted: 2011-03-31
Category: School
The Government of India has provided grant assistance of NRs. 3.33 crores for construction of three storied school building and provision of furniture. The new infrastructure will help in the creation of better facilities for over 1200 students, about half of whom are girls, in the pursuit of their study programmes in keeping with their educational needs and towards raising enrolment in this school.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-31
Category: School
With the enrolment rate of students falling noticeably in public schools across the county, the government is all set to announce a merger plan for such schools from the new session that begins April-end.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-28
Category: School
A private school in Myagdi district has paid an eighth grader Rs 1.7 million in compensation after his eardrum was ruptured when he was given corporal punishment by a teacher.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-26
Category: School
A meeting of Central Fee Fixation Committee, held under the chairmanship of Regional Education Director, Dev Kumari Guragain, today decided not to hike the tuition fee this year.
Posted: 2011-03-23
Category: School
The Principal of Khandrung Higher Secondary School located at Siddhithumka VDC, Ilam has disappeared with teachers' salary and school funds.
Posted: 2011-03-23
Category: School
Until a few years ago, the gender gap as shown by the Net Enrollment Rate (NER) of Meshram Barah Secondary School in Ghandruk village, a popular trekking destination in Kaski district, was distressingly high.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-22
Category: School
Most of students of remote villages are compelled to pass their whole academic year without getting sufficient number of textbooks. The private publishers have got a chance to publishing and distributing the textbooks at the 32 districts of the Eastern Region and Western Region. But they sell their books out of these districts providing high commissions to the books distributors.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-21
Category: School
Over two dozen primary level teachers have been appointed principals of secondary schools in the district due to political patronage. Even the principals of the remaining 31 schools are not qualified as many of them are lower secondary level teachers.
Posted: 2011-03-19
Category: School
For the past three years, students of first, second and third grades have been taking classes huddled inside a single room. But this is not due to insufficiency of classrooms or teachers. Rather, it is due to the lengthy absence of the school principal.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-16
Category: School
A row over the post of principal at Nepal Rastriya Primary School in Madhwal has forced over 400 students to attend their classes in open air.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-16
Category: School
In a telling example of sluggishness in government works, the Non Formal Education Center (NFEC) has failed to start literacy classes in all 75 districts by mid March. As per its schedule, the NFEC should have started literacy classes in 4,723 schools across the country no later than March 15.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-15
Category: School
In recent times, children’s literature has become a distinct genre. Before the success of Harry Potter, the market was glutted with "issue books" that described serious and important subjects for children. But there were few books about things that children responded to from an imaginative point of view.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-15
Category: School
The Aashraya Foundation Nepal in coordination with Burwen Education Foundation, USA distributed education materials to the students of several schools in Tanahun district with the motives to help rural children.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-15
Category: School
Private schools are making efforts to satisfy the parents through quality education and producing good results. But there is a growing and urgent need to carefully define the role and relationship between the school and the community so that the child experiences the contribution of these two sectors in the development of her/his personality at this formative stage of physical and mental growth.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-14
Category: School
Various districts of the Karnali zone have reported that very few students there have received textbooks, though the new academic session began there in mid-February. Most children are going to the school without textbooks.
Read MorePosted: 2011-03-10
Category: School
Most private schools across the country remained closed on Wednesday owing to a shutdown call from the Nepal Institutional school Teachers’ Union (ISTU). Thousands of students from the pre-primary to the higher secondary level were forced to stay home.
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