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BOOK REVIEW |
On Education Khati describes what has
gone wrong in Nepalese education By A CORRESSPONDENT Education can play very important role in ushering changes in society and it is an effective and powerful instrument in the process of economic and social transformation. With the political change in 1950, the country embraced the policy of providing education to all the countrymen. Following the political change, the country also introduced many programs encouraging the people to join the educational institutions. In the last five decades, the country has made many achievements in the areas of expansion and up-gradation of education institutions. When Nepal entered into the process of modernization in 1950, there were only few dozens of educational institutions. The situation has changed now as there are many institutions providing education of every level. Unfortunately, the expansion of development of educational process, too, has certain weaknesses. Like all south Asian countries, Nepal’s education institutions are the base of political activists. At a time when the country needs to produce the quality students, the education institutions have turned into a place to teach political vandalism. From liberal democratic political parties to revolutionary, all of the political players are in a race to capture the educational institution to recruit the political workers. The government schools and colleges have already been thoroughly politicized. From teachers to students, their only concern seems to be to influence politics rather than to achieve the excellence in the education. “Education policy, process of decision making, influence of politics on decision making in an educational institution and the students-politics nexus, which are some of the most pressing issues in education, today, are tried to be addressed in this work. Actually, some kind of politics is almost always there as an important factor to rule university and other educational organizations. Although, no politician wants to disagree that politics should not interfere the affairs of an educational institution, but when it comes to ground, nobody wishes to openly detach himself in order to meaningfully discourage the thing,” writes Khati. In his book, Khati has made efforts to explain different phases of education system in Nepal discussing advantageous and disadvantageous parts of the educational system in Nepal. From the development of higher education to management and expansion, Khati also deals with the education for social reform and quality matters. At a time when there is a debate on various issues of education, Khati, an education expert, discusses on the planning and decision making in higher education, political influence, influence of students and vulnerability of educational institutions. “The non-existence of a suitable environment for higher educational facilities was a great misfortune for the country, whereas it was not so much a bad luck for a few elite, for they could afford to obtain these facilities even from the universities of the neighboring countries or of abroad. Largely due to the demand of time and partly having a desire to give higher education to the Nepalese students within the country, the former prime minister Chandra Sumsher established the first college in 1918, known as Trichandra College,” writes Khati. One of the major highlights of the book is that it tries to deal various aspects in the areas of education sector. From present approach to the past, Khati discusses all different aspects of the educational process. Education In Dilemma |
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