News & Views From Nepal
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 …
Global Curriculum Project,Nepal Read...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 …
Teaching for Nepal: Transforming the country one classroom at a time Read...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 …
Xpress Money brings H.O.P.E to school children in Nepal Read...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 …
Going to school, instead of work Read...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...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 …
Comedy of errors -SLC’s worth and standard Read...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 …
Ten signs you need a different kind of education for your child Read...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 …
When boredom strikes the classroom-Things students do when bored Read...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 …
Multi-grade Teaching in Nepal 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...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, …
List of schools 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...