Tag: #school
Articles tagged with #school
The Thappad
How a 9-year-old was discouraged from learning English because of a slap
Bigotry of low expectations
Negatively stereotyping Dalit and disadvantaged students perpetuates caste discrimination in Nepal
Letter to my kindergarten daughter
Photo: T P MishraDear छोरी, Congratulations on starting a long and exciting journey by beginning kindergarten today. It was lovely to see you so…
COVID-19 impact on food and school in Nepali children
A survey of Nepal’s children during the lockdown has confirmed what experts had feared – that there has been an adverse impact on education and…
Digital divide exposes class divide in Nepal schools
Nepal’s education system was in crisis long before the pandemic hit. But with schools closed now for four straight months, remote learning has…
Back-to-School season goes remote
It is that time of the year when many children would be gearing up to join a new pre-school, and their parents, shopping for new school bags and…
Mixed picture for Nepal’s children
Nepal has made progress in most areas related to children, like health, education, street children welfare, but challenges remain in nutrition,…
The last and least in Rautahat
TOO POOR TO MATTER: The bamboo shed that serves half the 124 students enrolled at Uma Primary School in Rautahat district. PHOTOS: Gargee…
Starting Nepal’s green school movement
Surkhet has a new, community focused eco-friendly school that could be a model for others
Nepali Muslims on the margins
Madrasa education needs to be improved to uplift Nepal’s Muslim community
Hop over the gender gap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj109RD1eFo&feature=youtu.beThere is a debate in behavioural science about which plays a more significant part…
Tall Order
Pic: BIKRAM RAISuresh Shakya (pictured above) was sitting down for lunch with his family in his house in Itum Bahal four years ago when there…
Shaking up the health sector
Nepal’s hospitals have not even recovered from the 2015 earthquake, and now need to be ready for the Next Big One
Lessons Unlearnt
Photo: BIKRAM RAIFour years later, Central Nepal is still being rocked by aftershocks of 2015. That peculiar earthquake shook everything to the…
LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR
Bhanu BhattaraiIf you still need proof about the poor quality of government schools in Nepal, just visit one of them. Not at a remote village in…
Stuck in Grade 5
Stuck: Children are eager to learn as they begin schooling, but soon feel stuck because the nearest school with grade 6 is 4 hours away. Binita…