Request from the Center for Education and Human Resource Development (CEHRD) to All Local Levels and Education Development and Coordination Units:
As it is deemed necessary to further organize, make transparent, result-oriented, reliable, and service-recipient friendly the activities to be conducted in the school education sector in the upcoming academic year 2082, all local levels and education development and coordination units are requested to act/ensure action as per the following decision of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (Honorable Minister Level) dated 2081.12.26.
1. Regarding the Academic Session and Student Enrollment Campaign:
a. To strictly implement/ensure the implementation in all schools of the provision in sub-rule (4) of rule 84 of the Education Regulations, 2059 (including amendments), which states, "No one should enroll or cause the enrollment of students before the commencement of the academic session."
b. To ensure the implementation of the provision in sub-rule (5) of the same rule, which states that the "working days in a school in one academic session shall be at least two hundred and twenty days."
c. To conduct/ensure the conduct of the enrollment campaign for the academic year 2082 with the slogan "Participation of all children in school, ensuring quality education," with the participation of parents as well, in such a way that it is ensured that no child of school age residing within the service area of the concerned school remains out of school.
d. After the school enrollment campaign, conduct a survey in collaboration with community learning centers and schools, ensure the enrollment of all children in school, and run a campaign to declare the local level as having compulsory and free basic education. If children are found to be out of school, update the details including the names of such children and include programs for enrolling all children in school in the local education plan.
2. Regarding Free Textbooks, Scholarships, and Fee Determination:
a. As the printing of textbooks for all levels of school education has been completed and the textbooks are being delivered to the students' hands at the beginning of the academic session through Janak Education Materials Center Limited and private printing presses and distributors/sellers as specified, to communicate to the schools to release the textbook funds on time and ensure the availability of textbooks to the students.
b. To direct private schools and schools operated under public educational trusts to provide scholarships to the following number of students to provide free education as stipulated by Section 27 of the Compulsory and Free Education Act, 2075:
- Schools with up to five hundred students: at least ten percent of the students.
- Schools with five hundred to eight hundred students: at least twelve percent of the students.
- Schools with more than eight hundred students: at least fifteen percent of the students.
c. To bring teachers and employees working in private schools and schools operated under public educational trusts (formerly institutional schools) under the scope of the social security program implemented by the Government of Nepal and to affiliate them with the Social Security Fund.
d. To ensure that no fees are charged under any heading to students studying in community schools and their parents.
3. Regarding School Permission, Mapping, Adjustment, and Staffing:
a. As clause (2) of point (j) of Section 11 of the Local Government Operation Act, 2074 has given the authority to establish, permit, operate, manage, and regulate community, institutional, trust, and cooperative schools, and clause (12) of point (j) of Section 11 has given the authority for school mapping, permission, approval, adjustment, and regulation to the local level, to carry out school adjustment and other related tasks based on school mapping by fulfilling/ensuring the fulfillment of necessary conditions.
b. If there is a need to adjust staffing in the schools operating under your local level, to ensure staffing adjustment and teacher management (transfer/posting) within one month of the commencement of the academic session as per prevailing law and to resume teaching and learning.
c. If it is deemed necessary to merge/adjust or close any school to ensure the right to basic education for all children in accordance with the number of students studying, the geographical location and distance between schools, school mapping, and the constitutional and legal provisions issued by the state regarding the provision of compulsory and free basic education to all children, this task should be completed within the first month of the academic session, and accordingly, the assets and teacher management of the schools should also be managed to ensure the teaching and learning of the students.
d. To regularly monitor and regulate the schools to determine/ensure the determination of fees for institutional schools as per prevailing law and to implement those fees.
4. Regarding Early Childhood Education:
The Education Act, 2028, and the Compulsory and Free Education Act, 2075, have directed that early childhood education should be conducted for children who have completed four years of age before entering Grade 1, focusing on the holistic development of children, developing their creativity and socialization, discouraging the use of textbooks, and based on play and recreational activities. Monitoring and regulation should be carried out for its effective implementation.
5. Regarding Curriculum and Textbooks:
Regarding the local subject curriculum, as there is a provision for teaching a local subject equivalent to 5 class hours in basic level (Grades 1-3) and 4 class hours in basic level (Grades 4-5) and (Grades 6-8), the provisions in the National Curriculum Framework 2076 and the aforementioned school-level curriculum should be implemented/ensured.
a. Arrangements should be made to use/ensure the use of only the curriculum, textbooks, and learning materials approved by the Curriculum Development Centre.
b. Complaints have been received that students are being compelled to purchase materials such as books, stationery, uniforms, bags, etc., within the school premises or from shops/places designated by the school. Therefore, this kind of activity should be stopped immediately, and parents should be provided with the opportunity to purchase from the open market. Necessary directives should be issued for the use/ensuring the use of an online billing system when collecting fees from students.
c. In the context of implementing the integrated curriculum for basic level (Grades 1-3), arrangements should be made to prepare individual portfolio files for students and compulsorily update the internal evaluation, and based on that, provide collaborative teaching.
6. Regarding Vacant Post Details:
As per the provision in sub-rule (1) of rule of the Teacher Service Commission Regulations, 2057, all local levels are required to send the details of vacant teacher positions in community schools within their jurisdiction to the Education Development and Coordination Unit in the concerned district by the end of Jestha every year.
Therefore, these details should be sent on time every year, and while sending these details, the provisions as per sub-rule (2) of the same rule should also be strictly followed/ensured.
7. Regarding Program Implementation:
a. Programs such as ReAL Plan, Early Screening, and Local Level Education Plan Formulation, which have been financially transferred to the local level, should be actively implemented/ensured.
b. Arrangements should be made to send the quarterly and annual physical and financial progress reports and DLI reports of the annual budget and programs that have been financially transferred to the local level in the prescribed format to the concerned Education Development and Coordination Unit and the Education and Human Resource Development Centre.
c. Necessary arrangements should be made for the purchase, distribution, and proper management after the use of quality sanitary pads in schools, as well as arrangements for serving locally produced mid-day meals to students in schools according to the school's mid-day meal menu.
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