Education News 14th issus(FILEminimizer)

&ducation news ;" r gf k| lj lwz'qmaf/ ebf} !%, @)^( Friday, 31 August 2012 &ducation news Ph's];g Go"h kflIfs d+unaf/ kmfu'g !%, @)^( Tuesday, 26 february 2013 e H ad the Literate Nepal Mission, an ambitious plan of the government to achieve total literacy by 2015, been launched as per the schedule its first phase would have half accomplished by now. However, due the deficit in the budget in the lack of full fledged but it has been postponed for two times clearly signaling that it will also have the same fate of governments failed ‘Literacy Campaign’ that was conducted for four consecutive year since 2009. The Baburam Bhattarai led government in October last year had decided to start the programme from January 14 but after the delay in allocating the budget it was rescheduled for February 12 which too was missed in lack of required budget. The Non-formal Education Centre (NFEC), which is tasked with executing the Mission, had demanded Rs 1.38 billion for the current fiscal year to meet the target that was revised down to Rs 633 million in the lack of a full fledged budget. Earlier the government had decided to provide Rs 3.95 billion in three years to attain the ambitious target to attain zero literacy in three years. According to Gopal Bhattarai deputy director at NFEC, the classes for under the new programme will kick off from the third week of February and have decreased the target for the year with the decrease in the needed amount. If everything goes as planned, the entire illiterate population above the age of 15 will be able to read and write within the next three years. A door-to-door survey conducted by the Non- Formal Education Centre (NFEC) showed that there are currently around four million illiterate adults in the country. As per the government estimation, around Rs 1000 per person will be spent from the state coffer to make the country free from illiteracy as per the global commitment of the country. After the Literacy Campaign could not meet the allocated target regularly for three years the government opted for the new programme Literate Nepal Mission to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) by 2015. The failure of the campaign to meet targeted figures for four consecutive years prompted the government to come up with a new programme, the new programme, to effectively implement the literacy programme to meet the target. “Though it has been delayed this, it will as per the schedule in next two years,” said Bhattarai adding, the lapses of this year will be compensated in 2014 and 2015. The make the Mission a successful venture the new initiative aims at mobilizing all government mechanisms and encourages educated people to be part of the programme. All civil servants, teachers, police and army personnel will be given a fixed target to make everyone literate within the next three-year period. The multi-billion-rupee project will set up around 36,000 centres that will conduct literacy classes and mobilise 207,000 volunteers and 20,700 monitors across the country. PM Bhattarai himself is scheduled to make an open request from all the people to help the in the mission to drive away illiteracy from the country. “The classes will be started from the third week of February once the District Education Offices designate the centres as per the need of the respective VDCs,” said Bhattarai. He also informed that the selection of needed teachers is almost completed and their orientation is being held at the various districts. Contrary to NFEC’s earlier plan the classes will be conducted from the different dates in different districts. The government has also formed a central level inter- ministerial coordination committee, comprising representatives from nine different ministries under National Planning Commission member Shiva Kumar Rai to run the campaign successfully. To make the mission effective, the government is making it mandatory for people to be literate if they are to avail of government facilities and be part of public agencies like school management committees and consumer organisations. Aiming to ease the process of making a person literate the government with its new venture has revised the standard for announcing a person literate. A person will now be deemed literate if s/he has the basic knowledge of operating a mobile phone and a calculator, can count up to 100, can express personal views in public and fill out bank vouchers and cheques. 150 hours classes have been designed for the mission. The Education Ministry has decided school students will be part of the campaign when they will be assigned tasks as their project work. A student will be given one illiterate person and s/he will have to make him/her literate, for which, the former will be given grace marks, a certificate and cash incentives. Though the government seems confident that the programme will be executed as per the plan, the education experts who have been putting their close eyes to the matter are fear the Mission will also have the same fate of the Literacy Campaign. Bidhya Nath Koirala an education expert says that such programme will not give the expected results unless they are linked with income generating programme. “People in the lower income group are the main target group for the literacy. Therefore, the drive will never bear the expected fruit unless it is connected to income generation activities.” The experts also say that the new literacy drive will only be successful if literacy programmes are adapted to the needs of communities, taking their realities into account. Similarly, the monitoring of qualifications, remuneration of facilitators and the quality of educational materials should be taken in consideration. Additionally, commitment from all political parties is a must for effective results, claimed Koirala. The government has already spent over Rs 3 billion in Literacy Campaign to make some four million people literate. The government claims puts the literacy rate of the country to 70 percent. Budget shortage hits Literate Nepal Mission arai led last t the y 14 but ing the ed oo lier ided to in three ious acy in o Gopal the lapses of this year will be compensated National Planning Commission Educatio school s the camp assigned work. A one illite will ha litera wil a i p e th ha clos fear t the sam Campaig an educa such pro expected linked w After the Literacy Campaign could not meet the allocated target regularly for three years the government opted for the new programme Literate Nepal Mission to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) by 2015. Education News EN W S d+unaf/, ;fpg !, @)&) Tuesday, 16 July, 2013 A base paper drafted by the National Planning Commission (NPC) to implement the three- year plan for improving the education sector has been found with numer- ous repetitions from earlier three-year plans which failed to get de- sired results in the past. A meeting of National Development Council has recently approved the concept paper of the upcoming 13th three-year plan prepared by NPC. The government has yet to endorse the plan. The commission had earlier included some points including effective implementation of free and compulsory basic education, clear higher education policy and umbrella act, increased SLC pass percentage in all 11th, 12th and 13th three-years planning. However, these plans did not succeed and the NPC was compelled to include the same provi- sions every time it in- troduced new three-year plan. This commission said that schools will have child friendly environ- ment, pass percent will be increased and dropout rate will be minimized during the new three year plan. Likewise, students will get loans to study medi- cines, engineering, agri- culture, science and tech- nology. Establishment of an Open University has also been included even in this year's plan. Ministry failed get the plans succeed due to scattering of budget and various obstacles faced during implementation of plan Mahashram Sharma, joint-secretary of the Education Ministry, said. Prof. Dr. Bhim Neu- pane, former member of NPC, said the prolonged transitional phases, state- lessness, and private sec- tor have become a silent spectators now leading to the failure of these plans. There is a need of a paradigm shift for the development of country, Neupane added. Tirtha Khaniya, educationist and for- mer member of the NPC, said the plans of the country were not implemented in lack of empowerment caused mainly by the insuf- ficiency of the budget allocation. There is a need of coherent policy in educa- tion for the successful implementation of all plans, Khaniya added. Various students will be given an opportunity to persue higher education by drafting National Vocational Qualification Framework. This plan has been included in this year as a new plan. Ncell donates Rs 1.3m to school Ncell , leading private telecommunication service provider, has donate d Rs. 1.3 million to a school in Myagdi district. The Ncell provided the financial support to Ghatan VDC-based Rastriya Secondary School for the construc- tion of school building, play ground and for the school management. The company provided the financial sup- port under the 'Adopt the School ', said Shankar Chokhala, a teacher at the school. A two-room building is being constructed with the financial support of the company, he added. NPC Proposes Three Years Plan N E W S

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