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Exam rigging exposes Nepal’s faulty education system

13.01.2020 Nepal

Press

Diwakar Pyakurel - Online Khabar

According to the National Examinations Board, there are many irregularities in the high school exam system in Kathmandu. While students, officials, and school administrators try to rig exams to suit their interests, guardians also use their influence to help their children cheat. The higher the pass percentage, the more the students are being enrolled the following year. Educationists and administrators alike say systemic failures have led to the perpetuation of exam rigging in Nepal, however, policy or procedural reforms might not work unless there is a change in the mindset of the people.
New interactive map on teacher codes of conduct

News

28.06.2019 Codes of conduct is the name given to documents that formulate rules for "good behaviour" that apply to the teaching profession.
Assessing the impact of seasonal factors on school attendance in the Karnali zone

For schools in Karnali region, approximately 83 school-days are lost each year through absences linked to seasonal events. This is nearly 38 per cent lower than the government standard of 220 school-days per year. The main problems highlighted by...

Teachers' Union of Nepal

Kathmandu, Teachers' Union of Nepal, 2010
The corruption of education

16.02.2009 Nepal

Press

Narayan Manandhar - Kantipur News

The problems of corruption are immediate; one cannot wait possibly ten to fifteen years before these students finally make their entry into job market. Moreover, what will you do when your very education system is corrupted? Cases of fake certificates are only the tip of the iceberg of corruption happening in the education sector. Nepal's largest budgetary outlay is now made in the education sector.
Ethics and corruption in education: an overview

Recent surveys suggest that leakage of funds from ministries of education to schools represent more than 80 per cent of the total sums allocated for non salary expenditures in some countries; bribes and payoffs in teacher recruitment and promotion...

Hallak, Jacques, Poisson, Muriel

2005
Stealing the future: corruption in the classroom: ten real world experiences

Corruption in education seriously undermines political, economic and social development and has a devastating effect on the lives of students and parents. This booklet documents studies carried out by Transparency International chapters in Argentina...

Transparency International

Berlin, TI, 2005
Accountability in primary education: CIET social audits: Costa Rica, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Uganda

Asked if they like primary school, the children who manage to get there usually say "yes". But their eyes darken as they start to talk about the "daily demand for money for invisible things" in exchange for an education.CIET social audits of Primary...

New York, CIET, 2001