News & Views From Nepal
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 …
‘Himalayan Viagra’ harvest rush shuts Nepal schools Read...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 …
Rautahat: The most child-illiterate district in Nepal Read...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 …
Students get rowing to raise £10k for Nepalese challenge Read...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 …
Everest International 1st school in Japan for Nepalese kids Read...Parish Church Primary School’s George Wilkin, Daniel Wright and Emily Sykes with Binesh Simkhaba, headmaster of a school in Phulkharka, Nepal Close links are being set up between pupils in Craven and youngsters in remote village schools in the Dhading …
Craven schools link-up with pupils in Nepal Read...By Anup Kaphle, A Nepali teacher who taught chemistry at Qatar Academy has been jailed in Doha on felony charges for insulting Islam. Dorje Gurung, who has taught chemistry to middle and high school students in the United States, Britain and Australia, …
Qatar jails a Nepali teacher on charges of insulting Islam Read...Dailekh: A lower secondary school at Sigaudi VDC in the district is finding it hard to provide education to children for want of physical infrastructure. Though the roof of a four-room building of the Nepal Rastriya Lower Secondary School was …
Dailekh school wants budget to repair roof Read...A meeting of agitating student unions aligned to various political parties today decided to impose a Kathmandu Valley bandh on May 9 against the move to recommend Lokman Singh Karki as chief commissioner of the Commission for the Investigation of …
Student unions announce Valley bandh Read...HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE BIRGUNJ: In a shocking revelation the District Education Office, Parsa, has apparently released Rs 2 lakh to a primary school that actually does not exist at Akubaniya tole of Madhuwan Mathwal VDC. The DEO has been similarly …
Parsa DEO funds non-existent school Read...Nepal’s poorest tribe reborn thanks to a Catholic school by Kalpit Parajuli For decades, the Chepang lived in poverty in the forests of Chitwan District (central Nepal). Since 2011, a Catholic school educates their children, offering adults some job opportunities. …
Nepal’s poorest tribe reborn Read...MUKTI RIJAL Keeping in view the growing complaints about the prohibitive fees charged indiscriminately by the private schools‚ the government has classified them based on their capacity‚ assets and infrastructure and performance‚ and fixed the upper ceiling of the fee …
Private schools Read...Guy Joseph died in October 2011. by Tim Lamden Tuesday, March 26, 2013 1:54 PM The family of a Hampstead Garden Suburb man who died in a paragliding accident in 2011 are travelling to Nepal to build a school for …
Family to build school in Nepal in memory of tragic paraglider Read...Marriage, menstruation and sex can be terrifying for young women in Nepal with little relevant education. But a group of women in rural areas is helping to share information about sex – still a taboo topic in many parts of …
Taking sex education to villages in Nepal – audio slideshow Read...Complete News – Nepal education plagued by corruption Published on Apr 19, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/CompleteNews Despite school enrolment figures rising, over half of the population in Nepal is still unable to read and write. In developing countries like Nepal, a …
Nepal education plagued by corruption Read...While most of the children of his age are busy taking classes of the new academic session, Nirajan Bhusal (13) along with his friends are demanding their right to education . Staging demonstrations before the Department of Education (DoE) and …
Tortoured students’ fate uncertain Read...