Archive university 2000-2003

Archive

2000-2003

current events

TU passing through worst times: Rector (kp 13/12/2003), TU Rector hints at new strategies (rn 13/12/2003), Students, teachers give TU classrooms the miss, by Nitya Nanda Timsina (kp 15/12/2003), Better investment (kp 15/12/2003), Experts suggest measures to revive TU (kp 16/12/2003), Educationists stress empowering TU monitoring committee (ht 17/12/2003), Intellectual bankruptcy of TU, by Vidhu Prakash Kayastha (kp 18/12/2003), TU to revise fees to improve financial status (rn 18/12/2003), TU seeks financial support for quality education, by Sachin Silwal (pr 18/12/2003), TU needs part-timers, by Shiva Rijal (kp 19/12/2003), Fresh Ideas Essential To Stem Rot (rn 25/12/2003)

TU part-time teachers boycott classes (kp 11/12/2003)

TU and the teacher question, by Prem Sharma (ht 05/12/2003)

Asked for papers, 1,000 TU staffers quit (ht 30/11/2003)

TU awards certificates to 3,673 (ht 24/11/2003)

TU settles twenty-one demands of students (Kathmandu Post, 08/11/2003)

Agitators demand removal of VC: Sanskrit University row unresolved (Kathmandu Post, 07/11/2003)

Social Science library inaugurated (Kathmandu Post, 01/11/2003), First library of social sciences opened (Himalayan Times, 01/11/2003)

SAARC decides on three-year bachelor’s degree (Kathmandu Post, 14/10/2003)

Time to evolve (Himalayan Times, 13/10/2003)

Humanities attracting more students, by Rachana Bhattarai (Himalayan Times, 26/09/2003)

Over 2000 part-time TU teachers face axe (Kathmandu Post, 25/09/2003)

TU and deteriorating quality, by Mana Prasad Wagley (Himalayan Times, 16/09/2003)

Appeal for Buddhist university (Kathmandu Post, 02/09/2003)

PU mulls curtailment of affiliations to campuses (Kathmandu Post, 27/08/2003)

Talks on curriculum development held (Kathmandu Post, 14/08/2003)

Top MSU officials quit (Himalayan Times, 05/08/2003)

Sad story (Kathmandu Post, 31/07/2003)

Bias in selecting professors, by Mana Prasad Wagley (Himalayan Times, 28/07/2003)

PERI in Nepal, by Krishna Mani Bhandary (Spotlight, 25/07/2003)

Scholarship scheme for Dalits, women, janjatis announced (Kathmandu Post, 24/07/2003)

Demand for varsity gains momentum (Himalayan Times, 18/07/2003)

Fire and failure, by Shiva Rijal (Kathmandu Post, 16/07/2003)

Govt softens stance; students released: Campus, university strikes called off (Kathmandu Post, 07/06/2003)

Indian, Nepali university to work together (Himalayan Times, 27/05/2003)

Pokhara University in dire financial crisis, by Kulchandra Neupane (Kathmandu Post, 23/05/2003)

Applications for new universities registered (Kathmandu Post, 08/05/2003)

TU’s degrading competence, by Krishna Chandra Bhattarai (Kathmandu Post, 18/03/2003)

Senior TU teachers on strike (Himalayan Times, 04/03/2003)

Say no to politics in academic institutions (Kathmandu Post, 26/02/2003)

Need to establish Buddhist university stressed (Space Time Today, 25/02/2003)

Academic anarchy, by Puran P. Bista (Kathmandu Post, 25/02/23003)

IOE students slam full fee paying programme, by Renu Kshetry (Himalayan Times, 23/02/2003)

TU to set up School of Economics, by Bishnu Budhathoki (Rising Nepal, 17/02/2003)

Pokhara University to research on Himali herbs (Kathmandu Post, 14/02/2003)

TU goes commercial (Himalayan Times, 12/02/2003)

Four year graduate curriculum in the offing (Space Time Today, 10/02/2003)

Nepal’s progress significant in science-related studies (Rising Nepal, 02/02/2003)

TU must reform (Himalayan Times, 29/02/2003)

Sanskrit students seek options, by Tika R Pradhan (Himalayan Times, 31/12/2002)

Our Society Does Not Have A Tradition Of Respecting Knowledge, interview with Krishna Mani Bhandary, chief librarian of Tribhuvan University (Spotlight, 20/12/2002)

Purbanchal University construction starts (Kathmandu Post, 20/10/2002)

India to support university (Kathmandu Post, 18/10/2002)

Physical infrastructure development of PU in limbo, by Harsha Subba (Kathmandu Post, 13/10/2002)

PU construction speeded up (Kathmandu Post, 04/10/2002)

'Rare publications to be microfilmed soon', by Bhuwaneshor Sharma (Rising Nepal, 01/10/2002)

The trouble with TU, by Hemlata Rai (Nepali Times, 27/09/2002)

Decreasing Demand Of T.U. Product, by Devi Panthi (Rising Nepal, 24/09/2002)

Resource crunch hits TU library expansion, by Bhuwaneshor Sharma (Rising Nepal, 19/09/2002)

Government plans to break down varsities’ region-wise (Kathmandu Post, 30/08/2002)

Works on Int’l Buddhist University in the offing (Kathmandu Post, 25/08/2002)

Lalit Kala Campus facing hard times, by Perina Pathak (Kathmandu Post, 03/08/2002)

Ombudsman and university police, by Padma Devkota (Kathmandu Post, 01/08/2002)

Varsity-affiliated campuses’ categorisation proposed (Kathmandu Post, 12/07/2002)

Should TU look inwards ? by Jaidev Bhusal (Kathmandu Post, 11/07/2002)

TU not in mood to review intermediate courses (Kathmandu Post, 04/07/2002)
Interview with, Naveen Prakash Jung Shah, vice chancellor of Tribhuvan University

Irate students go on rampage: Accuse TU teachers of wrongdoing, by Yuvraj Acharya (Kathmandu Post, 04/07/2002)

Teachers outnumber students in TU departments (Rising Nepal, 27/06/2002)

Science in Nepal, by Suvecha Pant (Kathmandu Post, 23/06/2002)

Problems Of Different Kinds, by Jawahar Manandhar (Rising Nepal, 05/04/2002)

JNU to open centers in Nepal and Bangladesh (Kathmandu Post, 19/03/2002)

Degree boom and fake certificates, by Shikhar Shrestha (Kathmandu Post, 13/03/2002)

Bill on Rajashri Janak University demanded (Rising Nepal, 07/03/2002)

Bill to set up agriculture university (Rising Nepal, 16/02/2002)

Experts mull over TU fee hike (Kathmandu Post, 07/02/2002)

Tribhuvan University and Noam Chomsky, by Shreedhar Gautam (Kathmandu Post, 05/02/2002)

CERID marks 25th anniversary (Kathmandu Post, 15/01/2002)

RONAST gears up contacts with international institutes (Kathmandu Post, 06/01/2002)

USTC scholarships to diligent, needy students (Kathmandu Post, 27/12/2001)

Teaching and research must go hand in hand (Kathmandu Post, 25/12/2001)

Planning for higher education, by Soorya Lal Amatya (Kathmandu Post, 24/12/2001)

Review of affiliation of private campuses, by Soorya Lal Amatya (Kathmandu Post, 14/12/2001)

RR Campus to start MA in mass communications (Kathmandu Post, 07/12/2001)

Funds please, Royal Nepal Academy is sinking, by Kiran Chapagain (Kathmandu Post, 06/12/2001)

2,618 Nepali students get admission in US this year (Rising Nepal, 20/11/2001)

Mediocrity in regional area studies (Kathmandu Post, 05/10/2001)

Number politics at TU, by Ashmina Bhattarai (Kathmandu Post, 29/09/2001)

Nominations for Purvanchal University (Rising Nepal, 25/08/2001)

Unscrupulous ex-students cause big losses to Central Library, by Kiran Chapagain (Kathmandu Post, 13/08/2001)

IOE to deposit students’ degrees (Kathmandu Post, 08/08/2001)

CNAS under Panchayat, by Pratyoush Onta (Kathmandu Post, 27/07/2001)
See also Challenges facing CNAS, by Pratyoush Onta (Kathmandu Post, 10/08/2001)

Tribhuvan Universtiy urged not to charge fees in dollars (Kathmandu Post, 23/07/2001)
See also Equal fees for Nepali origin students urged (Kathmandu Post, 26/07/2001)

KU meet nominates members of university council (Rising Nepal, 14/07/2001)

Interaction on university policies (Kathmandu Post, 11/07/2001)

TU to introduce Buddhist studies (Kathmandu Post, 26/05/2001)

Prime Minister Koirala launches NAES (Kathmandu Post, 07/05/2001)

Of Our MBA Graduates (Rising Nepal, 07/04/2001)

TU, RONAST agree to work together (Rising Nepal, 04/04/2001)
See also Agreement signed (Kathmandu Post, 12/04/2001)

Students of western Nepal eye Nainital, by Chitranga Thapa (Kathmandu Post, 04/04/2001)

IOE rated 3rd best in Asia, by B.M. Dahal (Rising Nepal, 06/01/2001)

Nepalese and Bangladesh universities sign MoU (People's Review, 05/01/2001)

Entrance exams, mere formality in TU, by Archana Parajuli (Kathmandu Post, 14/12/2000)

T.U. students felicitated (Rising Nepal, 23/11/2000)

Will TU ever be generous to its students?, by Satish Jung Shahi (Kathmandu Post, 23/11/2000)

Part-time TU teachers protest ‘exploitation’ (Kathmandu Post, 21/11/2000)

TU exam system in limbo (Rising Nepal, 18/11/2000)

First GIS Day 2000 observed in Nepal (Kathmandu Post, 16/11/2000)

Pokhara University and Rudki University sign MoU (People's Review, 02/11/2000)

TU to begin new course in Engineering (Rising Nepal, 26/10/2000)

Cultural understanding in university decision-making, by Dr Radhaber D Khati (Kathmandu Post, 14/10/2000)

Too busy to study? Open University is on the way..., by Pramod Poudel (Kathmandu Post, 02/10/2000)

Pahalman Singh Swar academy established (Rising Nepal, 30/09/2000)

Will you return from the land of opportunities? by Sameer Khatiwada (Kathmandu Post, 29/09/2000)
see also answering letter by Pranav Budhathoki: Why I won't come back (Kathmandu Post, 05/10/2000)

Manipal College: Medical Education’s Jewel, by Madan Sharma (Rising Nepal, 18/09/2000)

MCOMS first among pvt colleges to turn out docs (Rising Nepal, 16/09/2000)

Judicial academy vital for legal education (Kathmandu Post, 02/09/2000)

Nation's largest library lacks services at dot.com age, by Pramod Poudel (Kathmandu Post, 28/08/2000)

TU exam office sets up branches outside valley (Kathmandu Post, 10/08/2000)

Indiscipline of students affects TU (People's Review, 03/08/2000)
Interview with Rajendra Sharma

Govt intends to introduce University Act (Kathmandu Post, 02/08/2000)

Tribhuwan University (TU): At The Cross Road (Spotlight, 14/07/2000)

Privatisation is a must (People's Review, 13/07/2000)
Interview with Suresh Raj Sharma, vice-chancellor, Kathmandu University

Open University by next year (Kathmandu Post, 01/07/2000)

Education must be able to cope with changes (Independent, 17/05/2000)
Interview with Shimeji Furutani, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Osaka Sangyo University, Japan

Quest For Education, by Michael E.Gill (Spotlight, 28/04/2000)

Webster University keen to invest in Nepal (Kathmandu Post, 18/04/2000)

Development studies programme in Nepal, by Bharat Shrestha (Kathmandu Post, 04/04/2000)

Education: language no bar (Spotlight, 17/03/2000)

Locked campus building opened (Kathmandu Post, 22/02/2000)

Row in Morang campus unresolved (Kathmandu Post, 11/02/2000)

We are frustrated, by Santosh Babu Aryal (Sunday Post, 30 January 2000)

NUPTA flays campus closure (The Kathmandu Post, 20 January 2000)

Mahendra Morang Campus shut down indefinitely by TU (The Kathmandu Post, 17 January 2000)

ASCOL hostel: Efforts for improving hostel facilities (The People's Review, 13 January 2000)

RONAST: service for seventeen years, by Bhaskar Raj Amatya (Spotlight, 7 January 2000)

Leap before you look, by Ritesh Shrestha (The Kathmandu Post, 22 December 1999)

Remove quotas and adopt merit pay system, by Alok K. Bohara (The Kathmandu Post, 22 December 1999)

Break up TU system for reform (The Kathmandu Post, 14 December 1999)