Tag: #schools
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Practicing mindfulness in schools
Introducing meditation in classrooms can help children's learning and overall well-being
Pandemic revives reading culture in Nepal
Photo: AMERICAN LANGUAGE CENTREContrary to industry projections, paper book sales during the pandemic in Nepal have seen healthy growth after an…
Lessons still not learnt
Photos: BIKRAM RAI/NEPALI TIMESEarthquakes are inevitable in Nepal. It is not a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’. And ‘when’ was 2:28PM on 15…
Covid-19 cancels region's gains in education
Photo: UNICEFSchool closures have led to an alarming loss of learning opportunities for children in South Asia despite efforts to promote remote…
UK aid for Nepali mothers and children
Photo: WWF NEPALAs the Covid crisis pushes millions of Nepalis back below the poverty line affecting their nutritional status, the UK government…
Nepal’s class divide widens
Photo: UMA THAPA MAGARThird grader Sona Lama lives in the uplands of Rasuwa and has not been to school for more than a year. But since Nepal…
Lessons not learned from the pandemic
Nepal has squandered another opportunity to fix a defective education system
Learning during the pandemic in Nepal
(This article is based on a research project by Boyd Hayes, Nabila Farid, Riya Sirkhell, who are graduate students at the University of British…
Pokhara, the education hub
Its scenic setting, a more relaxed urban life has made Pokhara not just a tourism destination but also an educational hub. Pokhara has a long…
Rowing to educate Nepal children
Four members of a boat that took part in the world’s most challenging competition to raise money for schools in Nepal have come third in a…
Lessons not learned from 2015
The clock is ticking on the next Big One, but most schools are not prepared for disasters
Be prepared
Earthquake Safety Day 2004 coverage. Photo: NEPALI TIMES #178 Nepal’s National Earthquake Safety Day commemorates 15 January 1934, the day when…
Back to school in Nepal
Basketball court inside the premises of Tripadma School in Pulchok is empty despite reopening of the school. Photos: SONIA AWALEOn Monday, it is…
Nepal’s class divide
Changing Stories Nepal Fellow Sangeeta Basnet teaching at Amar Secondary School in Urhari of Dang.When I taught in a Nepali government school,…
Pandemic of poverty
Photo: UNICEF NEPALResults from a recent nationwide survey show that more than half of Nepali households are at risk of falling back into…
Pandemic of poverty
Photo: UNICEF NEPALResults from a recent nationwide survey show that more than half of Nepali households are at risk of falling back into…
Too young to marry
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAMohan and Sarita (name changed) studied together in the same school from Grade 6 onwards. They were friends initially, but…
Nepal-Britain tree twinning
Students in Pokhreni Secondary School in Sundarijal prepare to plant a sapling in Kathmandu.A unique ‘tree twinning’ project between British and…
Some schools re-open in remote rural Nepal
Students at Ghami Solar School in Mustang district posing with teachers after classes resume. Upper Mustang has not had any cases of Covid-19.…
Pandemic deepens period poverty
Period stigma has long blighted the lives of young women and girls in Nepal, but the pandemic is making things worse. If action isn’t taken to…
Half of Nepal’s girls may drop out of school
Room to Read's local mentors supporting girls through remote mentoring session.With schools closed for the past five months, and families losing…
Epicentre of two disasters in West Nepal
Sodasha Higher Secondary School in western Nepal is undergoing retrofitting as an earthquake preparedness model for future quakes in the region.…
Read and let read
The erosion of a reading culture in Nepal does not bode well for democracy
How will Nepal develop in the next decade?
Photo : BIKRAM RAINepal is recognised as the only low-income country to have made rapid progress cutting poverty and boosting public health and…