Raising Education Quality
PRIME Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand very appropriately underlined the need for providing
access to education to everyone in order to achieve sustainable social and economic
development of the country. Addressing the seventh national convention of the Private and
Boarding School Organisations of Nepal (PABSON), in Kathmandu the other day, Prime
Minister Chand said that the dream of nation building cannot be realized without
appropriate and adequate development of practical and quality education in the country. It
is beyond any shade of doubt that education is the foundation of development of the
society and the country. Education creates informed and skilled human resource, which is
the very basis of development as well as mobilises the society towards progress. As said
by Prime Minister Chand, development of education is a must to achieve all-round and
sustainable development. Realising this fact, the government has taken a number of
measures in terms of policy and programmes to improve the quality of education and provide
access to education to all in the country. It has accorded high priority to the
development of education and set aside a substantial part of the national budget for the
same in order to ensure education for all within a period of a few years and raise the
quality of education. Different donor countries and agencies have also been cooperating
and collaborating in Nepal's efforts for educational development. Similarly, the private
sector's participation in the country's education is very encouraging and commendable. The
Tenth Plan has also adopted the policy of launching literacy and income generating schemes
as well as non-formal education, which can be of practical use in life. As a result, there
have been positive and significant developments in the education sector. Because of these
initiatives, the literacy rate of the country is now over 50 per cent. The number of
schools, students and educated population has also significantly increased over the last
few years. However, the development is more focused on quantity rather than quality. At
the same time, academicians and experts have complained about the quality of education in
Nepal. It is true that quality of Nepal's educational sector is yet to be developed at par
with the international standard. Efforts, thus, need to be made to raise the quality of
education. Similarly, the need of the hour is also to impart technical and practical
education so that students may immediately apply the knowledge learnt in the classrooms to
improve their life.
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