Deafness may be congenital or a result of a childhood illness like Measles, meningitis, high fever or any infection that goes untreated. In Nepal, there are families with multiple children with deafness and more often than not they are diagnosed much later than they would have been in a developing […]
Monthly Archives: May 2013
PHASE raises levels of literacy and numeracy giving children and adults more opportunities and choices. We support governmental schools with teaching materials, buildings, water supplies and toilets, salaries for extra teachers and early childhood development. Adult literacy rates are very low in remote Nepal and being able to read makes […]
Education
As part of the Global Curriculum Project and to further develop our links with Annal Jyoti School, five girls from the Sixth Form and two members of staff travelled to Nepal during July. Below is Nicola Skakel’s account of her time in Nepal. No matter how much I was told […]
Global Curriculum Project,Nepal
By Abhaya Raj Joshi Come April 14 next year, 30 men and women from across Nepal will embark on a mission — to kick start a process to transform themselves and the country. The fresh university graduates, chosen as ‘Teach for Nepal’ fellows, would have accepted a challenge […]
Teaching for Nepal: Transforming the ...
Xpress Money, the world’s most dependable money transfer brand, recently donated text books to close to 100 underprivileged students between grades VI to X. This donation drive was undertaken by the brand as part of H.O.P.E, their consolidated sustainable corporate responsibility platform, which is Xpress Money’s commitment of ‘Helping Our […]
Xpress Money brings H.O.P.E to ...
CNN Films’ “Girl Rising” documents extraordinary girls and the power of education to change the world. Watch June 16 on CNN (CNN) — Purnima lives in Nepal. She wants to be a nurse. But because she is a girl instead of a boy, she is more likely to go to […]
Going to school, instead of ...
Agence France-Presse Posted at 05/14/2013 4:28 PM | Updated as of 05/14/2013 4:28 PM KATHMANDU, Nepal – The annual rush to the hills by villagers keen to harvest a rare aphrodisiac fungus dubbed “Himalayan Viagra” has emptied rural schools in Nepal and forced them to shut, a local official said […]
‘Himalayan Viagra’ harvest rush shuts ...
The whole purpose of SLC still seems to be rote learning, mugging, and writing down repetitive paragraphs to fill up exam papers. -SHRIJANA SINGH YONJAN My eldest daughter is giving her SLC (School Leaving Certificate) examination this year along with five lakh-plus secondary school students. Heralded as the ‘iron gate’ […]
Comedy of errors -SLC’s worth ...
Jerry Mintz Many parents don’t realize that the education world has changed drastically since they were in school. Schools and class sizes used to be smaller, dropout rates lower, in-school violence almost unheard of, and teachers weren’t terrified of showing affection to their students, or of discussing moral values. Of […]
Ten signs you need a ...
A classroom is that place where students learn to ask questions, discover new things about the world and become more learned people. Failure of the teachers to engage students and provoke curiosity in them might lead to students being bored and inattentive. YUKTA BAJRACHARYA That feeling of restlessness and disinterest […]
When boredom strikes the classroom-Things ...
Grade combination, using other resource persons available in the area and better seating arrangements could be some of the strategies to ensure student-centred and activity-oriented Multi-grade Teaching in schools. Shambhu Prasad Lohani The rapid expansion of primary education during the last few decades and the goal of universalising primary education […]
Multi-grade Teaching in Nepal
MADAN THAKUR Despite the government’s decision to make education accessible to every child, there are 42,240 children in Rautahat who are still not within the reach of a school. Rautahat has the least literacy rate amongst all 75 districts in the country, and concerned authorities state that one third of […]
Rautahat: The most child-illiterate district ...
International Schools There are few international schools, which have distance learning centers in Nepal. They are : Bivha International School Madras university Indra Gandhi University (IGNOU) Bivha International school also offer “Scholarship” for higher studies in India. Scholarship are for : Medical, Para-medical, mass communication,science, SLC & CLC (10th & 12th). As […]
List of schools in Nepal
By Rachael Fulton Team 2012: Student Volunteer Abroad team in NepalChloe Pratt    <a href=”http://oas.stv.tv/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/local.stv.tv/glasgow/magazine/221225-glasgow-university-students-build-schools-in-nepal-with-sva/11368247860@Frame1″ target=”_blank”> <img src=”http://oas.stv.tv/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.ads/local.stv.tv/glasgow/magazine/221225-glasgow-university-students-build-schools-in-nepal-with-sva/11368247860@Frame1″ alt=”” /> </a> “Snakes come out of the grass in monsoon season. I couldn’t believe we were working around poisonous snakes!” These are the words of Glasgow University student Chloe […]
Students get rowing to raise ...
Nepalese children study at Everest International School Japan in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward. (Atsushi Takahashi) By ATSUSHI TAKAHASHI/ Staff Writer The beginning of the school year always finds classrooms full of the happy laughter and smiling faces of eager schoolchildren anxious for what lies ahead. The smiles were even broader this […]