5 simple steps to improve quality education system in Nepal

Needs for improvement never cease, looking at the current education system in our country there is much more room for improvements. Even though the steps that I am going to write at this column are just mere words but it would be helpful if one would implement it in near future. The five steps to improve education system in Nepal.

1. Provide monthly stipend to the entire student in the country.

All the humans who are registered either in public or private colleges should be given monthly stipend by the government or the university or any governing bodies. This might look a Hercules task at first but it surely is right way to improve the ongoing crisis in the education sector. There are very few students who are going to stay back and look for higher education in the country; everybody wants to visit foreign land for quality education, where the story for living and getting education in foreign country is not so easy. Therefore, when a student is provided a monthly stipend then he/she will get security for paying bills each month.

2. Health benefits from all the University to entire students

One of another vital factor in improving education could be health benefits for free. Being a student is one thing but being a healthy student is another. One has to go through different deadlines, schedules, projects and many such tasks. Therefore, the governing bodies should provide free health benefits to the entire student when they get enrolled by the colleges, university or schools for free.

3. Nepali ID System and 50% discounts for students on travelling by bus, flights, train or any such medium.

Nepalese ID system should be given by government to all those who are citizens of Nepal and also to the aliens studying in Nepal. The Nepalese ID system might contain DOB (Date of birth), Profession and Personal Information stored in central database of the state. This means, storage of information of entire population in Country in the Government Computer. One could develop Social Security System for everyone living and coming inside the country. It will help to track, validate and access information about the person at any given time. This could be huge project by the Government in Future. Currently the students get around 33% of the discounts from the travelling, it should be increased to 50%, this is to improve travelling budget by the student and it will ensure that student pays less expenses on travelling. At the same time, those who are not students they should be charged full amount of money.

4. Development of Government University (All private affiliated colleges should be half-owned by Government)

Most of the universities in Nepal are limited with resources and more students are found in private affiliated colleges to the university. These private affiliated colleges should be half-owned by the Government and less in number. It would be nice approach to reduce such affiliations and increase Universities. This might be very difficult task but it is certainly possible with mutual understanding from Private and Government top class officials. It would be good approach for the development if the country has 10 or 15 universities and no or very few affiliated colleges because it gives more learning ability, visibility, accountability and transparency among others.

5. Strict Use of Tax cuts to all the University, School and Colleges (Private or Public) and No tuition fee for the students.

It is nice approach to use the tax cuts for the schools, colleges and university either public or private. This is positive initiative taken by the Government. In addition, there should also be no tuition fee taken to domestic students inside the country. Those in Private Sector would look with eyes staring but they should reduce the amount of tuition fee from the family to give education. Although, these five steps sounds good these are not going to be implemented in practice. Simply because we do not want our children to give benefits and quality education, we just want to earn money from their family into ours. These statements might sound very strong but the fact is when would we listen to our heart and start thinking on how to improve education for our children’s? If we are waiting for right government and right model then we will wait and just wait. Nothing will change but if we are going to put the vision into reality by DOING SOMETHING NOW then we surely are going to make difference in our country’s education Systems.

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