Number wise, there are around 3500 higher secondary schools in Nepal out of which less than 3 percent schools are stand-alone or running only grades 11-12. According to the new rule these schools should either extend two grades downwards or close their schools.

“The United Kingdom and Australia has changed its policies for students currently studying in the countries and for students who are applying or planning to apply for further education,” informed Bishnu Hari Pandey, Vice President of ECAN (Educational Consultancy Association of Nepal).

No university from Nepal was even included in a 2011 study to determine the best 200 universities in Asia. And a forthcoming study by the Asian Development Bank reveals Nepal’s higher education performance is among the lowest even in South Asia.

“I too have copied answers of my friends at times. But that is because we don’t have the confidence of getting good marks by expressing ourselves in the answer sheets. There’s always the fear of not getting good marks if we don’t have answers as close to the textbook.”

We are able to trace the entire night sky from the comforts of our sofas, we can explore the basic alphabets on rich tablet screens with an imaginary dog named Rocket; we can paint digitally on tablet screens with magnetic pens or fingers as brushes. 

Be hard working and have a goal to fulfil your dream. Be helpful to others. Have passion to learn without any hesitation to ask questions to the teachers and believe in yourself.

Around 22 colleges affiliated to TU offer Bachelor of Computer Science and Information Technology (BSc CSIT) course, while the Central Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, TU is the only one that offers Master of Computer Science and Information Technology (MSc CSIT).

Nepal’s aviation industry is a male-dominated sector, as fewer than 30 women hold pilot’s licenses. But despite high training costs and rising unemployment among pilots, women here are slowly making their ways into the skies
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Over the last decade, nearly one million Indian students were granted visas to study in the United States. Every one of them appeared before an American visa officer for an interview. If you have applied for a U.S. visa, you too have come face-to-face with one of us. Have you ever wondered who the visa officers are that will approve or deny your visa? 

 Dr Basu Dev Pandey is a specialist for viral infectious diseases at Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Kathmandu. An additional Associate Professor at National Academy of Medical Sciences, Dr Pandey is also a Visiting Professor at Nagasaki University, Japan