SYANGJA: In a bid to relieve woes being faced by female students, Fedikhola Rural Municipality has launched a mensuration sanitary management campaign at a school by installing a automatic machine to distribute sanitary pads.
A menstruating student can get a sanitary pad by inserting a ATM card into the machine. As many as 20 pads can be withdrawn at a time which is monitored by a class teacher and the respective monitor.
“A menstruating student can obtain sanitary pads once she switches on the bottom after inserting an ATM card into the machine,” said Ghanashyam Subedi, chief of Fedikhola Rural Municipality.
This is facility is available to the female students from class six to 10. School bears the expenses for the cost of the pads, not the students, said Subedi.
KATHMANDU: Police were found to have been involved in the leakage of questions of Science and Social Studies of Secondary Education Examination held on March 28 and 29 in Province 2.
An investigation carried out by Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police fond involvement of two police officials Bramhadev Sunrait and Dipendra Kumar Mandal of Area Police Office, Kalyanpur.
The National Examination Board and Province 2 government had carried out investigation separately on the issue. The arrest of the two police personnel came at a time while the investigation was still underway.
Police said they are investing the case after taking Sunrait and Mandal under control.
BIRGUNJ: Ghantaghar area in Birgunj remained tense with students chanting slogans in protest of the earlier disclosure of social studies question paper of SEE examination beginning today.
The Examination Control Office of the State-2 held an emergency meeting after the question paper went viral through social media. The Board took the decision to cancel the examination of the social studies scheduled for Friday after it was confirmed that question paper was ‘out’ prior to the examination.
However, students have staged demonstration against the Board’s decision to cancel today’s examination. Agitating students are still chanting slogans against the decision before the District Administration Office, Parsa.
Students have vandalized the sign board reading ‘Educate daughters; protect daughters’ installed by the State-2 government at Ghantaghar in Birgunj. Irate crowd also pulled down a traffic beat equipped with solar lamp and traffic signs at Ghantaghar. In addition, the mob has enforced arbitrary shutdown in Birgunj Bazaar.
Chetnath Sharma, deputy examination controller of the office, informed that SEE’s Friday examination was cancelled in the State-2 following the conformation of question out. —
BEIJING: A significant number of Chines people are studying abroad. According to the Ministry of Education, the number of Chinese people studying overseas reached 662,100 last year, 53,700 more than that of 2017.
Among those, 65,800 were sponsored by public funding while 596,300 were self-funded.
Nearly 5.86 million Chinese studied overseas from 1978 to the end of 2018, it said. Among them, over 1.53 million are still in the process of studying and conducting research overseas, over 4.32 million have already completed their studies, and more than 3.65 million chose to pursue a job in China after completing their studies overseas.
(Agencies)
KATHMANDU: With the new session about to begin, the private schools have fixed the fee structure unilaterally.
Over 6,000 private schools are across the country where over 1.8 million students study. These private schools are charging fee to the parents exorbitantly due to the lack of proper monitoring by the government, a report in Rajdhani daily said.
The local government is mum on this issue. They have been charging fee on various topics such as exam fee, monthly fee, computer lab, hostel, diary, belt, tie, shoes, shocks among others.
On top of that they have been fleecing parents by imposing syndicate on notebooks and textbooks.
KATHMANDU: Higher number of girl students appearing the Secondary Education Examination (SEE) does not signify an end to gender bias among parents. A closer look reveals that discrimination between a son and daughter is stubbornly persistent.
Of the total 475,003 SEE students, number of boys is 2, 36,445 whereas the number of girl students is slightly higher standing at 2, 38,558.
However, the fact is that most of the girl students are from community schools. Quality of education in community schools is often inferior compared to that of private schools where students are taught in English medium.
A total of 118,807 girls attending the SEE examination are from community schools. Only 56,751 girls are from private schools, according to the Office of the Controller of Examinations.
Chairperson of the Private and Boarding Schools Association of Nepal (PABSON) Rituraj Sapkota said PABSON’s role in increasing the number of girl students at private schools is ineffective. Unless parents start treating their children as equal PABSON alone cannot reduce the gender gap at private schools, said Sapkota.
Educationist, Dr. Mana Prasad Wagley views that the private schools need to be gradually closed in order to end social discrimination in education. It may be noted that the high-level national education commission had in its report recommended making private schools service-oriented.
In the meanwhile, renowned actress Karishma Manandhar and law maker Shanta Chaudhari are also attending the SEE exam this year.
BHAKTAPUR: The Office of Controller of Examinations, Sanothimi, said it has completed all necessary preparations for the Secondary Education Examinations (SEE) beginning Sunday.
A total of 475,003 students from across the country are appearing in the exam this year that is being conducted under the federal set-up for the first time this year. The exam will run until April 4.
Of the students qualified to appear the SEE, 2,38,558 are girls and 2,36,445 are boys. The highest number of students (10,602) are from State 3 while the least number (35,624) are from the Karnali State.
Similarly, 83,818 are from the State 1; 70,518 are from the State 2; 4,863 represent the Gandaki Province; 76,983 are from the State 5 and 5, 3972 represent the Far-West State.
A total of 1,969 centers are set-up for the exams while 1,969 superintendents; 3,167 deputy superintendents and 29,535 security forces will be mobilized to conduct the exams scheduled from 8:00 am to 11:00 am.
KATHMANDU: A deep-rooted gender discrimination is still underway in the Nepali society. Parents favor sons over daughter which is reflected in the educational system, too. A government statistics has shown that number of female students appearing in the SEE exam from government schools is greater. The SEE exam is beginning from March 23.
According to the record at the National Examination Board, a total of 475,003 examinees are taking part in the SEE exam, of which 340,196 are from government schools. Of the of total students representing the government schools, 53.4 percent are girls while 46.6 percent are boys.
Similarly, of those representing private schools, 42 percent girls while 57.9 percent are boys.
KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) said it will ask all schools in Kathmandu to install the national flag. The KMC will also ask the schools to have their name plates written in the Devanagari script.
The KMC said it is making this provision since several schools have been found using English names.
According to KMC spokesperson Ishwar Man Dangol, all schools, both private and community, have to fly the national flag at the school courtyard. This has been aimed at promoting patriotic sentiments, he said.
A total of 91 public schools and around 643 private schools are in KMC.