Lawmakers express concern over deteriorating community schools education
Bidya Bhattarai blamed the country's education system, teaching and learning environment and the structural shortcomings for the poor results of the community schools in the Secondary Education Examination (SEE) this year.
DAMAULI: School principals, teachers and employees at Ambukhaireni rural municipality of Tanahu district have decided to admit their children to community schools. A meeting of the school principals made a decision that they must enroll their wards at the community schools. Chief of the education section at the rural municipality, Nirmala Kunwar, informed that the […]
KATHMANDU: The Tokha municipality is providing free health checkups for students of community schools inside the locality. Under the Children with Deputy-mayor Program, 6,575 students of 10 community schools and three alternative schools are to be given the health checkup facility in the current fiscal year. According to municipality education officer Khagendra Singh Dhami, medical […]
BHARATPUR: Two community schools in Bharatpur Metropolitan City have got school buses provided by the metropolis in its bid to increase education quality in public schools. Dhaddaghari Secondary School at the metropolis-16 and Sajhapur Secondary School at ward-28 purchased a school bus each at the cost of over Rs 2.1 million with budget released by […]
KATHMANDU: Raghuganga Rural Municipality of Myagdi district has provided audio books to all community schools in order to ensure technology-friendly teaching learning. The audio books were provided to 33 community schools focusing basic education. Administrative officer at rural municipality, Amrit Subedi, informed that the audio books were provided for technologically facilitating teaching up to Grade-5. […]
The number of girl students is found to be higher in community schools and boys in private or institutional schools, attending the upcoming Secondary Education Examinations or SEE. This shows that the class and social discrimination in education continues to stay.
KATHMANDU, May 29: The government has allocated Rs 180.04 billion budget for the education sector in the fiscal year 2021/22.
The government has pledged to create a favorable environment to make skill-oriented and quality education considered a basis for human capital.
Reading out the budget speech for the fiscal year 2021/22, Minister for Finance Bishnu Prasad Poudel announced a grant to the community schools based on their education results.
For the development of community schools’ infrastructure, a total of Rs 10 billion has been allocated under the President Educational Reform Infrastructure Programme.
Similarly, alternative learning would be implemented by developing infrastructures, students’ access to internet connectivity would be ensured and student’s admission rate would be made 100 per cent in the basic level of education.
The students up to grade five would be provided with a day meal and teachers’ quota would be readjusted, the Finance Minister announced.
Similarly, girl students would be provided with sanitary pads for free and each school would have a provision of a health worker.
Three new universities would be established and up to Rs 500,000 concessional loan would be provided to the youths having minimum Bachelor’s level of education.
KATHMANDU, Nov 11: Six thousand laptops and other educational materials have been donated to approximately 140 community schools across the country. Provided by Sajha Education E-party Nepal, an NGO, the laptops which will be available in e-libraries of the schools, contain digital books, educational videos on health and agriculture, and more than 5,000 education-related audio materials.
