PYUTHAN: Giriraj Mani Pokharel, Minister for Education, Science and Technology, has claimed that the election of the Free Students Union (FSU) will be by April 13.
Speaking at a program in Pyuthan today, he stressed that the government has taken serious steps to improve the academic schedule for the new education year.
Minister Pokharel also informed that some acts have already been formulated and some acts are in this process. He said it was the common responsibility of the federal, provincial and local governments for the development of the education sector.
The Education Minister said the ministry has been engaged in formulating socialism-oriented education policy to link education with labor, labor with skill, skill with production and production with prosperity.
RAMPUR: Several community schools in the district have been imparting quality education in compared to private schools.
The community schools, besides focusing on quality education, are well equipped all infrastructure such as adequate space and classrooms, hygienic canteen within the school premises, clean toilets with continuous water supply, playground, and disciplined school atmosphere. These schools have also focused on extra curricular activities, which have attracted the parents. One of these schools is the Ram Tulasi Secondary School at Bejhad, Rampur, which have been able to attract a significant number of students.
Nishan Sigdel, a student of the Ram Tulasi Secondary School, feels blessed to have teachers who share their knowledge with students in a familiar way. It should be noted that Ganga Secondary School and Ram Tulasi Secondary School were selected as model schools in the district in last year.
The number of students, library and laboratory facilities for science practical classes, physical infrastructure, ample space, regular auditing, classes up to 12 classes, teaching style and educational progress of students are taken as indicators to select any school as a model institution.
Ram Tulasi, which has currently around 200 students, has been a community school with the second highest number of students in the district. Students from outside the districts, including Gulmi, Parbat, Arghakhanchi, Syangja, Tanahu and Nawalpur come to study here.
The school offers classes from Nursery to grade five in English medium. School assistant Kul Bahadur Darai said regular classes have also helped them to maintain quality education. According to Principal, Balkrishna Lamsal, the school has introduced computer technology in its daily activities.
The district, which falls in Province-5, has 437 community schools and 60 institutional schools .
KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is set to intensify the enforcement of local curriculum from the upcoming academic session.
All public community and institutional schools are required to follow the directives in this regard enforced by the KMC. The local curriculum introduced to keep up with the newly introduced federal system includes various five subjects, including Nepal Bhasa, sustainable development, environment education, traffic management, culture of Kathmandu, and ancient language.
The KMC’s move follows the handover of the authority of overall school management to the concerned local levels under the federal setup. The new curriculum is needed as earlier set of center-based courses could not accommodate concerns of various aspects of local level, said Sitaram Koirala, chief of education department at the KMC.
KATHMANDU: Minister for Education, Science and Technology Giriraj Mani Pokharel has said that the education should not be profit oriented. Speaking in a programme at Chandragiri based Pranidhi Secondary School in the district on Sunday; Minister Pokharel argued that the education sector should be oriented to produce human resources required for nation building and development. He also stressed on promoting quality education for the holistic development of the nation. The school building was constructed in the financial assistance of Japan.
KATHMANDU: The Tribhuvan University (TU) is working to announce the date of the free students’ union (FSU) soon. TU registrar Dilli Prasad Upreti said discussions were underway to fix the election date. TU Executive Council is expected to announce the poll schedule soon, he informed
The biennial election could not be regular in all campuses in recent years due to disputes over the electoral system and age-limit among students unions. Provisions regarding the age limit of 28 years and the proportional electoral system have been adopted in the FSU election.
TU student welfare and sports directorate’s executive director Ganga Bahadur Thapa said probably the election would be held by mid March. Chiefs of all TU-affiliated campuses have been already instructed to make preparations for the election.
The last election was held on March 1, 2017 but it could not be held in all campuses. Only 26 TU constituent campuses, out of 60, and 80 community campuses witnessed the FSU election. The number of TU-affiliated campus is 1083 including 60 campuses. All Nepal National Free Students Union General Secretary Ain Mahar said discussions were underway to reach an agreement to fix the date.
KATHMANDU: Nepal Students Union (NSU) has protested what it called the police suppression on peaceful protests that it organised on Sunday. The student organization close to the main opposition Nepali Congress party had held protests against the lower house of parliament pushing through and passing the National Medical Education Bill.
The NSU organised protests in front of various colleges in the capital this morning to denounce what it called ‘police suppression’ of its Sunday protests.
NSU president Nain Singh Mahar said the student union has organised the protests as the government passed the Bill on the back of two-thirds majority without addressing the demands of Dr Govinda KC, who is on a hunger strike, calling for making amendment to the Bill.
“The government has hit the students on a peaceful protest with truncheons and detained them, while turning a blind eye to spate of murder, violence, rape and corruption,” Mahar said.
KATHMANDU: The government has prepared a bill in regard with the establishment of the Madan Bhandari Institute of Science and Technology.
The government in the budget speech for the current fiscal announced to establish the Institute in commemoration of the late Bhandari known as people’s leader as an initiation to build modern Nepal with the help of scientific research and developments of technologies.
“Madan Bhandari Institute of Science and Technology will be established with the objective of making it an international educational center for excellence in Science and Technology,” the budget states. The institute will have the status of a university.
According to Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Khagaraj Adhikari, the draft bill will be presented to the Council of Ministers after consultations with the Ministry of Law and the Ministry of Finance.
Presently, there are 14 universities and institutes of central and regional level in the country. The Ministry has already formulated a draft of law to establish the Bidushi Yogamaya Ayurvedic University. The then CPN (UML) general secretary and organisation department chief Jeev Raj Ashrit were killed in a car accident on May 16,1993 at Dasdhunga of Chitwan.
If we portray bad images for our religious and civilized sense, don’t others think we lack civil sense?
Civic sense has been an issue that has been widely discussed in South Asian countries, including Nepal. In fact, this is one of the topics that most Nepalis do not care much for it.
There is no denying the fact that Nepalis lack a sense of responsibility or civic sense.
This sort of attitude is widespread across all ranks and sections because this is an issue that does not come from just strict enforcement of the law. It needs a sense of responsibility or a sense of belonging and accountability.
Nepalis are accustomed to blaming the government for all mess. People are so more driven toward a personal goal that even educated or well-to-do folks forget their ethics.
Yes, people pay taxes but this does not mean that they can spit, litter, urinate or throw garbage everywhere. You don’t have to go too far.
Just stroll inside the premises of Singha Durbar, the government’s secretariat to witness and experience spit marks, the stink of urine, graffiti, garbage, etc. Kathmandu, the country’s capital, has been one of the victims of this menace.
Question is: who is responsible? Pinning everything on the government is easy. But have we ever asked ourselves and our civic sense? Perhaps not!
Let me cite some examples. Roads are dirty because people dirtied it since we don’t throw garbage in dustbins.
Streets are jammed because we don’t follow lanes and traffic rules because everyone, including drivers and pedestrians, assumes that the street belongs to them.
There is sound pollution because we honk horns gratuitously. There is environmental pollution because we smoke in public places because the government has not designated smoking zones.
The list can go on from peeing near the roadside, not waiting in the queue, spitting or littering everywhere, not using zebra-crossing or over-head bridges, not helping physically-unable people, not respecting others’ rights, not being polite to elders, etc.
In fact, this hideous attitude is not just limited to so-called lower class people but even so-called members of the higher class or well-off society tend to forget their moral responsibility.
Whether it is on the streets, banks, cinema halls, bus stops, parks, public places, (the list goes on) the majority of the Kathmanduites have absolutely no respect for public property. This is one of the reasons why our streets get clogged up during monsoon.
When civic sense is absent in citizens, it leads to problems. In Nepal, the primary cause is that people disregard law because there are no instances of people being punished for committing civic offenses.
Local administration cannot tackle these issues since it is overshadowed by “who cares” attitude! Problems begin when we think: “When our homes and courtyards are clean, why bother about throwing garbage on the streets?” People are so driven towards personal goals to care about civic sense.
Therefore, it is high time that students are well-informed about civic sense both in schools and homes. Good parenting can be the other major factor to help a child develop a sense of responsibility and societal norms.
Civic sense does not just come from through enforcement of the law. It is all about a sense of being responsible and a sense of ownership. It is all about social ethics, love and respect, politeness, responsibility, showing good etiquette – not just keeping our roads or public property clean.
William Shakespeare’s father has been credited with saving priceless paintings that were hidden in an historic chapel in Stratford-upon-Avon. John Shakespeare was Bailiff of the town during the Reformation under King Henry VIII, and was ordered to remove them from the Guild Chapel. Rather than destroying them as often happened, he painted over them with whitewash. The Heritage Lottery Fund has given a £100,000 grant so the images can be restored and put back on public display, according to BBC.
Some Facts about Shakespeare
Few people realize that apart from writing his numerous plays and sonnets, Shakespeare was also an actor who performed many of his own plays as well as those of other playwrights.
There is evidence that he played the ghost in Hamlet and Adam in As You Like It. During his life, Shakespeare wrote at least 37 plays, 154 sonnets and a number of poems that we know of. In addition there are a number of “lost plays” and plays that Shakespeare collaborated on. This means Shakespeare wrote an average 1.5 plays a year since he first started writing in 1589.
Shakespeare has been credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with introducing almost 3,000 words to the English language.
Estimations of his vocabulary range from 17,000 to a dizzying 29,000 words — at least double the number of words used by the average conversationalist.
William Shakespeare is believed to have influenced the English language more than any other writer in history, coining—or, at the very least, popularizing—terms and phrases that still regularly crop up in everyday conversation.
Examples include the words “fashionable” (“Troilus and Cressida”), “sanctimonious” (“Measure for Measure”), “eyeball” (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”) and “lackluster” (“As You Like It”); and the expressions “foregone conclusion” (“Othello”), “in a pickle” (“The Tempest”), “wild goose chase” (“Romeo and Juliet”) and “one fell swoop” (“Macbeth”).
He is also credited with inventing the given names Olivia, Miranda, Jessica and Cordelia, which have become common over the years (as well as others, such as Nerissa and Titania, which have not). Shakespeare has inspired lots of films in Hollywood, Bollywood, and beyond
Western films:
West Side Story (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins) – Romeo and Juliet
Kiss Me, Kate (George Sidney) – The Taming of the Shrew
Forbidden Planet (Nicholas Nayfack) – The Tempest
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant) – Henry IV parts 1 and 2
Gnomeo and Juliet (Kelly Asbury) – Romeo and Juliet
Looking for Richard (Al Pacino) – Richard III
Bollywood:
Omkara, Maqbool, Haider (all by Bhardwaj) – Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet
Goliyon Ki Rasleela: Ram-Leela (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) – Romeo and Juliet
Japan:
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa) – Macbeth
Ran (Akira Kurosawa) – King Lear
Shakespeare invented lots of expressions that we still use today
(Agencies)
LONDON : The number of children taught in academy or free schools in England has for the first time exceeded the numbers in schools run by town and city councils, figures released Wednesday have revealed.
The Department for Education (DfT) said standards are rising faster in many academies than in similar council-run schools.
Education Secretary Damian Hinds hailed the milestone as a decisive moment and urged more schools to consider the freedom and opportunities offered by becoming an academy.
Until schools were given power to determine their own destinies virtually all schools were controlled and governed by local education authorities.
A spokesperson for the DfT said: “Today’s figures reflect school leaders’ recognition of the autonomy and freedom to innovate offered by the academies program, alongside the increased ability to make decisions in the interests of staff and pupils.
“This has included measures such as altering the length of the school day or adapting the curriculum to help every child access a school that meets their needs, interests and abilities.
“More than 8,300 schools in the country have become an academy or opened as a free school, with hundreds of schools making the positive choice to convert to become an academy in the last 12 months alone.”
The academies program was introduced to improve pupil performance and break the cycle of low expectation.
The 2010 Academies Act gave all schools in England the freedom to choose to become an academy and now over 50 percent of pupils in the state funded education system are taught in an academy or free school.
Alongside schools that have chosen to become an academy, some have been taken out of local authority control through government intervention because of educational underperformance.
Also published on Wednesday is an analysis shows in many cases standards have risen more quickly in under-performing schools that have become academies than in similar council-run schools.
Hinds said: “In the past, schools that failed were allowed to stay under local authority control for far too long. Academies have changed all that. Failing schools can now be taken away from local bureaucracies who have not been able to improve them and given to school leaders who can.”
Leora Cruddas, CEO of the Confederation of School Trusts, said: “This is an important moment. School trusts are no longer a small project in a much larger education system.” (Xinhua)