Call
for criteria to select new KU vice-chancellor : The
search committee will shortly start the process to
shortlist three candidates, one of whom will
succeed Ram Kantha Makaju, by Binod Ghimire (kp
03/01/2021) [Stop this
nonsense and appoint chancellors at all universities.
Neither a prime minister nor a king is competent for
such an office!], Experts
doubt KU vice-chancellor will be chosen based on merit
: Applications have been called for the post but the
criteria for selection have not been published and
this is a concern, educationists say, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 10/01/2021)
Colleges
announce application dates despite uncertainty over
grade 12 results : National Examination Board says
admissions can be provisional or colleges can
postpone entrance examinations and the deadline
for application submission, by Binod Ghimire (kp
30/12/2020)
TU
continues to ignore part-time teachers’ demands
(ht 24/12/2020)
How
should universities recruit professors? The very idea
of requiring a written qualifying exam for a PhD is by
definition absurd since nobody could qualify as the
examiner, by Jagadish Paudel (rep 15/12/2020)
Freeing
TU From Politics, by Mukti Rijal (rn 10/12/2020)
TU
part-timers threaten to boycott classes : They
have been demanding payment on par with assistant
professors besides other facilities (ht
09/12/2020)
Digital
Media In Social Science Curricula, by Harsha Man
Maharjan (rn 05/12/2020)
Dissecting
TU Service Examination Results, by Kushal Pokharel
(rn 21/11/2020)
Pick
new KU vice-chancellor fairly, academics say : A
number of prominent professors had parted ways with
the university expressing their displeasure with the
leadership of VC Ram Kantha Makaju, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 13/11/2020)
Tribhuvan
University publishes timetable for exams despite
coronavirus scare, by Binod Ghimire (kp
12/11/2020)
Agriculture
university not equipped to run vet classes, council
says : University officials say they are committed to
admitting new students this year, but authorities are
unimpressed, by Binod Ghimire (kp 03/11/2020)
Sexism
in academia : Comments related to physical appearance
unnecessarily dominate talks surrounding sexism,
by Roshee Lamichhane (kp 21/10/2020)
TU
Teachers Feel Insecure, by Kundan Aryal (rn
09/10/2020)
Varsities,
colleges allowed to conduct exams : The government’s
decision draws flak as it could increase the risk of
COVID transmission, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht
08/10/2020)
Tertiary
Education During Pandemic, by Kushal Pokharel (rn
04/10/2020)
Politics
Dictates Public Institutions, by Mukti Rijal (rn
02/10/2020)
Tribhuvan
University to hold exams after festivals : As
officials commit to virus safety measures, students
will have the option of sitting their exams at a
centre closest to their homes, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 25/09/2020)
Lumbini
Buddhist University Conducts ‘Door-To-Door’ Exams,
by Laxman Poudel (rn 17/09/2020)
The
future of the classroom is online : The government
must support universities as they move to
embrace virtual classrooms, by Achyut Wagle
(kp 15/09/2020)
Rules
to regulate medical colleges issued (ht
04/09/2020)
TU
Urges Its Students To Participate In Online Class
(rn 26/08/2020)
Kathmandu
University closes for 15 days (kh 11/08/2020)
Ayurveda
university infrastructure development board formation
order issued (ht 06/08/2020)
Break
The Culture Of Padlocking, by Kundan Aryal (rn
31/07/2020)
Congress-aligned
professors, students padlock Tribhuvan University
office: Ruling party appointing key officials without
consulting other parties, they allege, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 30/07/2020)
As
pandemic stops Nepali students from going abroad,
consultancies and other businesses take a hit: Plans
of thousands of students to study abroad have been
either postponed or shattered due to Covid-19 related
travel restrictions, and suspension of visa services,
by Aditi Aryal and Elisha Shrestha (kp 29/07/2020) [This would be the time and
opportunity for a complete overhaul of the Nepalese
education system. Unfortunately, however, the
responsible politicians are just as uninterested in
this as they are in controlling the pandemic,
providing emergency aid for the numerous natural
disasters and measures to prevent them in the future,
saving the economy in a forward-looking manner, full
equality for women and their protection against
criminal elements, exposing capital crimes or
immediately rescuing the desperate migrant workers who
are willing to return and creating jobs in the country
on a permanent basis. Instead, the small male group in
power, mainly Bahun, is engaged in senseless struggles
for power and personal privileges.]
Campuses
Affiliated To TU To Open From Today, Exams To Be Held
From July 23, by Seshkant Pandit (rn 22/07/2020)
Covid-19
lockdown affects Nepali students planning to go
abroad: While some students plan to wait things out,
others have given up on their plans due to the
epidemic, by Shuvam Dhungana (kp 25/06/2020)
Pokhara
University finds itself at a crossroads jeopardising
the academic future of students: Future of as many as
40,000 students is insecure as the varsity remains
without a vice-chancellor and registrar for over nine
months, by Deepak Pariyar (kp 21/06/2020)
Pitch
For E-Learning In Lockdown, by Mukti Rijal (kp
04/06/2020)
Students
Of Semester System Attend Online Classes, Others Are
Out Of Access (rn 09/05/2020)
Govt
okays construction of defence university (ht
16/04/2020) [???], Defence
university formation order stipulates 13-member
committee (ht 19/04/2020)
Linking
Academic Research With Development, by Ira Sharma
(rn 26/03/2020)
As
the world goes on lockdown, Nepali students find
themselves out of a job: With the Covid-19 outbreak
shuttering businesses, Nepali students in foreign
lands who work part-time to fund their studies are
worried about paying their bills, by Elisha
Shrestha (kp 23/03/2020)
HoR
panel passes bill on Madan Bhandari university
(ht 19/03/2020)
KMC
padlocked for a month (ht 11/03/2020)
Ayurveda
university bill to promote ancient medicine (ht
11/03/2020)
Will
the subject of history soon be history? A lack of job
prospects and Tribhuvan University’s failure to
attract a new generation to the subject have meant
that fewer students are pursuing history as a
discipline, by Shashwat Pant (kp 05/03/2020))
No-objection
letters for six countries put on hold amid global
virus outbreak: Education consultancies say,
unofficially, the government has stopped issuing
certificates for other places as well, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 04/03/2020)
Saving
the centre of academic excellence: The current
friction at Kathmandu University should not be used as
a tool to encourage unionisation, by Achyut Wagle
(03/03/2020)
Medical
Education Commission plans to roll out new regulation:
Colleges not up to the mark could lose their permits,
if they do not improve in two years, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 29/02/2020)
At
one of country’s oldest campuses, no running water, no
toilets and few classes: Faced with a resource crunch,
Birgunj’s Thakur Ram Multiple Campus, founded in 1952,
has been struggling to keep its legacy of academic
excellence alive, by Shankar Acharya (kp
26/02/2020)
Medical
colleges continue to overcharge students while
authorities remain passive: Students say the Medical
Education Commission has not taken any action despite
receiving complaints against some colleges, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 06/02/2020)
Former
vice-chancellors warn government to stop
politicisation in universities: Retired
vice-chancellors see the draft Higher Education Bill
as an attempt to centralise power, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 05/02/2020)
Battle
of the moustache: Universities should produce ideas
and expand the sphere in such a way that it becomes a
force to be reckoned with, by Abhi Subedi (kp
02/02/2020)
Government
plan to set up Ayurveda University concerns Nepal
Sanskrit University: After seeing a continuous decline
in Sanskirt students, Sanskrit university itself is
teaching Ayurveda studies, by Binod Ghimire (kp
28/01/2020)
How
politicisation is dragging Kathmandu University down:
Ever since the appointment of vice-chancellor Ram
Kantha Makaju, allegations of financial impropriety
and a monopoly over decision-making have continued to
haunt the university, by Binod Ghimire (kp
25/01/2020), Trouble
at Kathmandu University: Politicisation and strife can
ruin a revered institution (kp 28/01/2020), KU
lockout ends partially (ht 29/01/2020)
Lockout
at KU continues (ht 23/01/2020)
Tribhuvan
University introduces labour studies programme: The
four-semester course will cover topics like labour
economics, labour sociology, labour laws, labour
migration, labour diplomacy and labour rights, by
Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 19/01/2020)
Medical
commission ‘fails’ to enforce refund of excess fee to
students: Protesting students demand a probe against
commission’s Chair Dr Shree Krishna Giri over an
allegation that he demanded bribes, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 12/01/2020)
Purbanchal
University marks anniversary amid protests: Two of its
administrative offices—the rooms of vice-chancellor
and registrar—have been padlocked by various student
unions for seven months over disagreements about the
appointment of university officials, by Binod
Bhandari (kp 05/01/2020)
Irate
teachers, employees padlock KU departments, dean
offices (ht 03/01/2020)
Policy
Research Academy Bill registered in Upper House
(ht 03/01/2020)
Construction
of building for Madan Bhandari University starts
before Parliament endorses its bill: Project to be
funded by the Nepal government after the Chinese
government turns down proposal, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 15/12/2019) [Respect of
laws obviously does not play any role for the NCP-led
government!]
Universities
stripped of power to grant affiliation to medical
colleges, by Ruby Rauniyar (rep 15/12/2019)
KU
professors, employees warn of stringent protest
(ht 14/12/2019)
Shortlisted
nominees for six vice-chancellor posts are close to
the ruling party: If political association were to
have primacy over merit, what was the point of
announcing vacancies, experts ask, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 13/12/2019) [This
is a very special kind of political corroption as
practised by Nepal's top politicians!]
KAHS
senate meeting uncertain, by Dhan Bahadur Budha
(rep 09/12/2019)
Failing
Education System Of Nepal, by Somy Paudyal (rn
09/12/2019)
Construction
of Madan Bhandari university starts officially, by
Pratap Bista (kp 08/12/2019)
Students
of TU and its constituent colleges to get refund for
medical expenses (ht 08/12/2019)
Six
universities have been without vice-chancellors for
months, but government has done precious little to
appoint them: Committees formed to recommend names are
waiting for consensus among parties, officials and
experts say, by Bionod Ghimire (kp 07/12/2019) [They have their almighty and
energetic chancellor Oli. What else do they need
Vice-Chancellors?]
Semester
System In Crisis, by Kushal Pokharel (rn
07/12/2019)
Reform
Agenda Before New VC, by Mukti Rijal (rn
05/12/2019)
Home
Ministry instructs police to arrest medical college
owners if they fail to refund students: College
operators refuse to budge and insist the set fee
ceiling is not scientific, by Binod Ghimire (kp
26/11/2019), Medical
colleges to reimburse students, by Sabitri Dhakal
(ht 27/11/2019), Medical
students demand changes in agreement (ht
30/11/2019)
CMC
students demand refund of extra fee (ht
24/11/2019), Agitating
students manhandled, protest continues, by Ritesh
Tripathi (rep 24/11/2019)
Karnali
Campus closed for lack of students, by Yogesh
Rawal (rep 23/11/2019)
Medical
colleges overcharge students by the millions but face
no consequences: As most college operators have close
relations with political parties, they face no action
for charging exorbitant fees that are against
regulations, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
21/11/2019)
Medical
students’ writ petition in top court (ht
20/11/2019)
TU
officials monitoring medical colleges charge even taxi
fares from them, by Bhuwan Sharma (19/11/2019)
UMC
students start relay hunger strike (ht 16/11/2019)
Science
education: make it job-oriented, by Niranjan
Parajuli (ht 14/11/2019)
Return
the extra fees: The medical colleges would do well to
refrain from issuing threats of shutting them down to
pile pressure on the government (ht 13/11/2019)
Chitwan
Medical College padlocked by protestors again:
Agitating students say they are going to padlock the
Education Unit until the college administration
addresses their demand, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
12/11/2019), Students
padlock Bhairahawa-based Universal Medical College,
by Mohammad Habib (rep 12/11/2019)
Government
gives 15-day ultimatum to medical colleges (ht
12/11/2019)
Medical
colleges charged extra fees of nearly Rs3 billion in
three years, a new report says: As some colleges
received fees without providing bills, there has also
been tax evasion, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
11/11/2019)
Medical
students urge home minister to initiate action against
defiant private colleges that are not refunding
additional fees: Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa has asked
for 15 days to set things right, a student leader says,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 10/11/2019)
Ministry
seeks clarification from 15 academic institutions: It
may take action against the institutions after 15 days
if clarifications are unsatisfactory (rep
08/11/2019), 15
colleges likely to face action: Education ministry
planning to scrap foreign courses offered by them
(ht 09/11/2019)
2-yr
rural stint enough for scholarship docs: SC (ht
07/11/2019)
Medical
students seek refund of extra fee (ht 06/11/2019),
Government
issues one directive after another to medical colleges
to refund additional fees, but has taken no action as
yet: Students from different medical colleges in
Capital to pressurise the government and their
colleges for increased fee refunds, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 07/11/2019)
Different
criteria applied for selection of vice-chancellor at
TU and other universities: Education experts suggest
adopting a competitive selection process in
appointments across all varsities, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 06/11/2019)
Medical
Education Commission gets shape (ht 05/11/2019)
Dr
Dharma Kant Banskota set to be appointed Tribhuvan
University vice-chancellor: The education minister-led
search committee will choose top officials among the
applicants in the other seven universities, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 03/11/2019) [Never
ending political nominations and nepotism!], VC
Banskota assumes office (kp 05/11/2019)
Chitwan
Medical College to adjust fees for first year
students: Agitating MBBS students, however, have not
agreed with the announcement of the college
administration, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
02/11/2019), Extra
fees will be adjusted, says CMC (ht 02/11/2019)
Filling
in the education gap: Students who move to the Capital
for higher education often find themselves in a
challenging and different academic culture, by
Arjun Bhattarai (kp 01/11/2019)
Dhangadi
to run technical institution if all goes as planned
(ht 31/10/2019)
Scholarship
quota for medical students increased (ht
22/10/2019), NMC
allocates seats for medical colleges (ht
22/10/2019)
Undue
demands: As medical colleges are related to human
life, they must be service-oriented, and the service
they provide should be affordable (ht 22/10/2019)
No
new admissions, medical colleges warn (ht
21/10/2019)
A
commission formed to deal with controversies in
medical education is itself mired in controversy: The
Medical Education Commission is allowing affiliations
to nursing colleges, despite a law that disallows any
affiliations until existing medical institutions are
mapped, by Binod Ghimire (kp 19/10/2019)
Medical
education cost up by up to 4.7pc (ht 19/10/2019)
Why
has the medical education sector not been reformed?
The defiance of medical college operators and the
government’s failure to enforce the ceiling it has set
for MBBS and BDS courses lead students to be
overcharged, which is the cause of the prolonged
agitation, by Binod Ghimire (kp 17/10/2019)
Universities
are headless as government fails to agree on
vice-chancellors candidates: Nepali
Congress-affiliated professors’ union threatens
non-cooperation in universities if they are ignored in
the appointment process, by Binod Ghimire (kp
16/10/2019)
Pick
the right man: To regain its lost glory, TU needs
someone with a vision who can bring about the desired
changes (ht 15/10/2019)
Government
in bid to resolve extra fee issue (ht 14/10/2019)
VC
talent search: No more political puppets, by
Ambika Mohan Joshee (ht 03/10/2019) [Install
independent academic chancellors and finally abolish
the royal legacy that the usually non-academic head of
government is chancellor of all higher academic
institutions.], Ailing,
Politicised Universities, by Mukti Rijal (rn
03/10/2019)
Field
study conducted to establish Madan Bhandari University
of Science and Technology in Chitlang: After its
establishment, the university will be the first one to
cater purely to the field of science and technology,
by Pratap Bista (kp 02/10/2019)
Private
medical college operators threaten not to enrol
students in the present scenario: Dr Govinda KC warns
of another hunger strike if the malpractices in
medical education don’t stop, by Binod Ghimire (kp
26/09/2019)
Absence
of post-graduate college in Parbat a hurdle for
aspiring students: Most undergraduate students in the
district are left with two choices—go out of the
district to pursue higher education or discontinue
their studies, by Agandhar Tiwari (kp 26/09/2019)
National
Medical Commission revising fee structure for MBBS
course: Protesting students say setting new fees
structure is not enough without assurance of its
strict implementation, by Binod Ghimire (kp
24/09/2019)
Medical
education in peril, again: The protesting students’
demands to implement the new laws are legitimate and
valid (kp 18/09/2019)
Lawmakers’
impartiality questioned as they recommend increase in
MBBS quotas for medical colleges: Despite commitment,
the Speaker has failed to ensure lawmakers are not
assigned in the committees where they can have a
conflict of interest, by Binod Ghimire (kp
12/09/2019)
Will
Tribhuvan University be the first educational
institution to have a sexual harassment policy in
Nepal? Months after articles and news stories about
continued sexual harassment in the country’s oldest
and largest university, it finally has put a team to
work on addressing these issues through a grievance
mechanism, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 08/09/2019)
Supreme
Court stays IoM’s MBBS entrance test (ht
07/09/2019)
Ministry
directs TU to allocate 75 percent of seats in medical
colleges to scholarship students: We want to see the
commitments implemented, students say, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 06/09/2019)
KU
padlocked for one month (ht 06/09/2019)
Instead
of implementing law, government uses force to break
the padlock to hold entrance tests; Students filing
writ against the government demanding implementation
of National Medical Education Act, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 05/09/2019)
In
lack of textbooks, college students rely on online
resources, by Dinesh Subedi (kp 05/09/2019)
Karnali
Academy of Health Sciences getting popular among the
rural folks (rep 02/09/2019)
Students
should be open to learning, not parrot party beliefs
unquestioned: Politicians, in filling universities
with party adherents, have helped erode the strength
of free thought that would have come only with the
right education, by Abhi Subedi (kp 01/09/2019)
What
ails TU? Reform in TU is not possible without strong
government support. If any reform is initiated, there
is likely to be huge protest, even closure of the
university, by Ridish K. Pokharel (rep 29/08/2019)
MA
English open for all at Tribhuvan University (ht
25/08/2019)
Despite
concerns, top officials in universities are set to be
appointed on political sharing: The government is
ignoring the recommendations made by a panel it had
formed in May, by Binod Ghimire (kp 21/08/2019) [After the abolition of the
authoritarian monarchy, which in the recent history of
the country was mainly responsible for the exclusion
of the majority of the Nepalese population, the
non-inclusive political parties dominated by male
Bahun have infiltrated the entire state apparatus in a
very short time. This is undemocratic, completely
irresponsible and highly politically corrupt!],
No
regard for merit: It is unfortunate that political
sharing in universities persists (kp
22/08/2019) [The problem
already starts with the PM! He must not have any
position in universities!!]
Microbiology
graduates demand licence: Of 2,000 microbiology
graduates, many have been denied licence to practice
(ht 21/08/2019)
Where
Are Universities Heading?, by Pramod Dhakal (rn
19/08/2019)
TU
starts 4-year bachelor’s in humanities, by Sabitri
Dhakal (ht 12/08/2019)
Offices
of KU VC, registrar, deans padlocked (ht
12/08/2018)
While
existing universities flounder, provinces rush to
build new ones: Priority should be for improving the
existing universities, educationists say, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 09/08/2019)
House
committee asks education minister to revise the bill
to amend University Acts: Lawmakers object to
provisions that could give space for further
politicisation of varsities, by Binod Ghimire (kp
08/08/2019)
Making
of a good university: Keep politics at bay, by
Uttam Neupane (ht 05/08/2019), Integrity
in academic appointments: Keep politics out of the
selection process for university positions (kp
06/08/2019), Recruiting
VCs in varsities: Merit should be the criteria, by
Mukti Rijal (ht 06/08/2019)
Madan
Bhandari - A new university, just like the old ones:
The government has proposed establishing a new
technical university, but its offerings suggest it
will specialise in all fields, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 31/07/2019)
More
than 18 months after Karki report, government yet to
take action against the accused: While accused
officials have questioned the report’s legitimacy,
experts say the government needs to take a stand,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 21/07/2019)
TU,
Nepal Police sign MoU for partnership (ht
18/07/2019)
At
a half-century-old Sanskrit college, there is a will,
but there is no money: Without funds, the library at
Balmiki Campus lies neglected in ruins, by Alisha
Sijapati (kp 17/07/2019)
Govt
sub-panel for revising medical education fees (ht
16/07/2019)
Fee
structure for bachelor level medical courses likely to
increase: Medical colleges say the new rate should be
enough to run the institutions effectively, by
Nayak Paudel (kp 15/07/2019)
Reviving
humanities: Deeper understanding of problem within
humanities education in Nepal will help us identify
the reason behind its decline in Tribhuvan University,
by Biranchi Poudyal (rep 15/07/2019)
Vice-chancellors
of several varsities to retire next month: Experts
suggest selection on merit ending practice of picking
officials based on their political affiliation, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 14/07/2019) [It
would be best to nominate chancellors from the
academic circles! There is no justification to make
the PM the chancellor of any university!!]
Country’s
oldest university is becoming centre of anomalies as
fresh controversies surface: Cases of irregularities,
one after another, are tarnishing the image of
Tribhuvan University, by Binod Ghimire (kp
10/07/2019), Tribhuvan
University officials embroiled in yet another power
abuse scandal, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
10/07/2019), Erosion
of academic standards: A decline of ethics, by
Jiba Raj Pokharel (ht 10/07/2019), What
is a university? It is a place where creative
freedom is explored, but TU has almost
stopped doing so for long (kp 11/07/2019), TU
Under Public Scrutiny, by Mukti Rijal (rn
11/07/2019)
TU
files sexual harassment FIR against teache: rFirst
time the varsity has done so, by Sabitri Dhakal
(ht 09/07/2019)
Varsity
offices vandalised, locked (ht 08/06/2019)
Tribhuvan
University to form committee to control anomalies,
by Sabitri Dhakal (ht 07/07/2019)
Formation
of arts, culture academy delayed in Gandaki Province,
by Deepak Pariyar (kp 07/07/2019)
Writ
filed at Supreme Court demanding clarity in provision
on medical seats for foreign students: Petition comes
at a time when controversy is raging in Dharan
medical institute over the issue, by Nayak Paudel
(kp 04/07/2019)
10
Tribhuvan University officials face graft charge for
manipulating scores in job exams:The Commission for
Investigation of Abuse of Authority found 33 answer
sheets had been tampered with, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 04/07/2019)
TU
confirms its official took bribes to manipulate scores
of a student University official: Ram Bahadur
Karmacharya and Patan Multiple Campus student Surendra
Koirala are in the CIAA custody, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 03/07/2019)
BPKIHS
defends its quota policy for foreign students: The
institute maintains it is managing foreign student
quotas as per the Medical Education Act, by
Pradeep Menyangbo (kp 26/06/2019), Resident
doctors at BPKIHS in protest over foreign student
quota policy row: Doctors demand one-third quota
should apply in each department, by Pradeep
Menyangbo (kp 28/06/2019)
Bar
on going abroad for studies before Plus Two stayed
(ht 22/06/2019)
Study
under way to conduct common entrance test and to
revise fees of medical colleges: Activists and experts
seek recommendations that benefit students, rather
than medical colleges, by Nayak Paudel (kp
17/06/2019)
Ministry
to draft new bill to run five state medical colleges
under one body: Experts suggest proper study and
research before forming the bill, by Nayak Paudel
(kp 15/06/2019)
Sija
Multiple Campus: Students come for admission but not
for studies, by DB Budha (rep 09/06/2019)
Tribhuvan
University should change the way it handles thesis
writing: After years of sitting in exams to protract
the bevies of bullet points, students are faced to
deal with an unfamiliar object, by Nirmal Acharya
(kp 09/06/2019)
Private
medical colleges admit to charging extra fees to their
studentsCollege operators tell House sub-committee
that government-set fee structure is unfeasible,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 06/06/2019)
Administratively
dead: Just as TU is devoid of its intellectual life,
it is destitute of its administrative life too. I,
therefore, declare administrative death of TU, by
Ajit Rai (rep 28/05/2019)
PU
‘paralysed’ due to government interference, by
Binod Bhandari (kp 27/05/2019)
Maintaining
the sanctity of Nepali universities: Instead of
focusing on nurturing academic practices, including
research and innovation, the government seems to be
interested merely in centralising power and curbing
academic freedom, by Kushal Pokharel (kp
26/05/2019)
Teachers
affiliated to Far-western University not paid since 11
months, by Yogesh Rawal (22/05/2019)
Mishra’s
departure throws the future of government think tank
into disarray: Insiders believe Chaitanya Mishra’s
discomfort with bureaucracy was the primary
reason for his resignation as the head of Policy
Research Academy, by Anil Giri (kp 21/05/2019), Think
tank woes: The government’s promise of
cooperation has fallen short (kp 22/05/2019)
GMC
yet to return extra fees charged from students
(ht 21/05/2019)
Dadeldhura
Multiple Campus beset by cronyism and political
interference, by Pant (kp 20/05/2019)
Making
the system work: Tribhuvan University has not been
able to create basic infrastructure, student-centric
teaching model and other facilities to properly run
semester system, by Biranchi Poudyal and Sangam
Babu Malla (rep 19/05/2019)
SC
orders TU to allow foreign students to sit
for MBBS exam (ht 18/05/2019)
Choose
the best: Let’s have no more political
appointments at universities (kp 17/05/2019) [And please remove the Prime
Minister's function as head of all universities and
academies that was taken over from the erstwhile
monarchy! A person with not more than SLC education is
in no way qualified to head universities!], Prime
minister must not have power to sack university
officials, say former vice-chancellorsAround a dozen
retired university officials have demanded that the
prime minister respect the autonomy of universities
and not pass an amendment bill, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 18/05/2019), Ex-VCs
urge govt to depoliticize universities (rep
18/05/2019)
Politics-academics
Mess, by Mukti Rijal (rn 16/05/2019)
Task
force recommends university officials be picked on
merit basis: The government-instituted panel suggests
those accused of plagiarism should be disqualified,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 16/05/2019)
Tainted
TU registrar Upreti promoted to professor; TU Service
Commission Chairman Chaitanya Sharma promoting
nepotism: TU officials , by Bishnu Prasad Aryal
(rep 13/05/2019), Saving
TU from infamy (rep 14/05/2019)
Frequent
strikes hit Agriculture and Forestry University hard
(ht 08/05/2019)
Govt
grills TU officials over unreturned MBBS fees (rep
04/05/2019)
Anti-ragging
drive launched in colleges (kp 27/04/2019)
Colleges
admit students, PU refuses to register (ht
22/04/2019), Follow
the
criteria: A university has the right to set its
standard, and affiliated colleges must abide by the
rules to ensure quality of education (ht
23/04/2019)
Student
organisations padlocked central office of Pokhara
University, by Deepak Pariyar (kp 19/04/2019)
TU
yet to clear over Rs 21 billion of arrears (kp
18/04/2019)
How
Tribhuvan
University let students down after a sexual harassment
case: Students at the university filed a sexual
harassment complaint but instead of taking action,
university officials facilitated a compromise between
the five women and the teachers accused of harassing
them, by Bhrikuti Rai (kp 09/04/2019)
Army’s
plan
for defence university stokes debate over who should
pay for it: Nepal Army has said the institution will
be a homegrown project even as multiple countries
offer support to set it up, by Anil Giri (kp
08/04/2019)
Pokhara
Academy
of Health Sciences still unable to run classes:
We won’t be able to conduct classes without the final
approval of Nepal Medical Council, says
Vice-chancellor Buddhi Bahadur Thapa, by Lal
Prasad Sharma (kp 06/04/2019)
New
University In The Offing, by Prem Khatry (rn
02/04/2019)
Medical
colleges
told to return extra fees charged to students within a
month: Colleges stand to face stern action, including
termination of affiliation with TU, if they fail to
follow the directive (kp 22/03/2019)
Bill
proposes sack of university chiefs through senate
majority, draws flak, by Ashok Dahal (rep
21/03/2019)
Tribhuvan
University,
Institute of Medicine offices padlocked: Ruling party
student unions demand problems at medical colleges be
addressed, by Arjun Poudel (kp 20/03/2019)
UGC
doles out Rs 25 million to campuses not meeting
criteria, by Ruby Rauniyar (rep 18/03/2019)
Resignation
of
top officials continues in KU: Bipin Adhikari quits as
dean of School of Law, expresses demur over
vice-chancellor’s working style (kp 17/03/2019)
BPKIHS
without Vice-Chancellor, by Rohit Rai (rep
16/03/2019)
Council
instructs
varsities to stop medical colleges from ‘fleecing’
students: Scores of students had filed complaints
against colleges saying they were being charged more
than the fee set by the government, by Arjun
Poudel (kp 15/03/2019)
Gandaki
Medical
College students warn of moving court against steep
fees: Students say authorities did not pay heed to
their concerns, by Nayak Paudel (kp 01/03/2019), NMA
finds Gandaki medical college charging MBBS students
extra fees, by Anita Shrestha (ht 02/03/2019)
Woman
chief sought for Padma Kanya campus (ht
28/02/2019)
Changunarayan
Municipality to manage engineering college (kp
18/02/2019)
Government
nod for tech university, by Binod Ghimire (kp
13/02/2019)
Devise
criteria
for students pursuing medical degrees abroad: Council:
The suggestion came after hundreds of MBBS graduates
from Bangladesh and China failed licence tests, by
Nayak Paudel (kp 08/02/2019)
Shah
appointed new vice-chancellor of health academy,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 07/02/2019)
Biotechnology:
Great opportunity in bio-economy, by Ajnish
Ghimire (ht 05/02/2019)
TU,
KU not to issue new affiliation to pvt medical
colleges (rep 04/02/2019)
Ministeries
at odds over panel’s advice: Bringing academies under
Education Ministry is a sore issue (kp 01/02/2019)
A
dream deferred: Why aren’t Nepal’s universities
attracting young Nepali scholars from abroad?, by
Dinesh Kafle (kp 01/02/2019)
When
teachers
fail: There are many university teachers who can’t
understand and speak English well but are ‘teaching’
in English medium, by Rishi Ram Paudyal (rep
27/01/2018)
Panel
calls
for halting college affiliation until new laws are in
place: Acts in need to define jurisdiction of
provincial and federal governments, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 13/01/2019)
Govt
proposes to set up two medical colleges: The medical
education bill also envisages a medical education
university (ht 13/01/2019), Opposition
calls for consensus on Medical Education Bill, by
Tika R Pradhan (kp 14/01/2019)
Affiliation
at Agriculture University postponed: Admission process
is halted at eight private colleges (kp
12/01/2019)
Not
to let: The government must form a strong body to
probe into TU land acquisition (kp
11/01/2019)
Dr
KC to launch 16th hunger strike today: Demands end to
‘mafia reign’ in medical sector, by Biplaw
Bhattarai (kp 09/01/2019), NCP
lawmakers
bulldoze Medical Education Bill through House panel:
KC starts 16th hunger strike objecting to change in
provisions, by Nayak Paudel (kp 10/01/2019), Respect
Public Interests, by Kushal Pokharel (rn
12/01/2019)
Cultivating
intellectual curiosity: Learning and knowledge
acquisition is a dynamic, long-term and a complex
process, by Mahendra P. Lama (kp 09/01/2019)
TU
trying to attract students to History: In the last
academic year, number of students opting for History
as a major was nil (ht 04/01/2019)
TU
vice-chancellor
‘unaware’ of sexual harassment charges against
professor: Retired Tribhuvan University professor
teaches at private colleges and is invited to speak at
prestigious forums, by Tsering D Gurung (kp
26/12/2018)
Students
vandalise far western campus (kp 20/12/2018)
‘Set
up new colleges based on Nepal’s human resource need’,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 20/12/2018)
Malaises
Plague University, by Mukti Rijal (rn 20/12/2018)
34
Indian students of Janaki Medical College denied MBBS
exam, by Santosh Singh (kp 19/12/2018)
Nepal
Academy gets full shape (kp 18/12/2018)
Science
Academy suffers shortage of staff (kp 17/12/2018)
Feasibility
study of medical course begins in Jumla (kp
17/12/2018), Dr.
KC’s deadline on demands expires today: Govt team at
Karnali Academy of Health Sciences (rep
17/12/2018), Assured
by House panel, KC puts off protest plan, by Nayak
Paudel (kp 18/12/2018)
Agri
Varsity to run two affiliate colleges (kp
16/12/2018)
VC
Koirala keeps courting controversy at Mid-western
University, by Narendra Upadhyaya (rep 10/12/2018)
Student
intake rises 2pc in 3 years at Tribhuvan University
(kp 05/12/2018)
Protest
hinders classes of Agriculture and Forestry University,
by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp 03/12/2018), Obstruction
in forestry university set to end, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 13/12/2018)
Delay
in key appointments hits regular work at NAMS (ht
29/11/2018)
National
Academy of Medical Sciences: Doctors’ dubious
admission process courts controversy, by Nayak
Pudel (kp 23/11/2018)
Agriculture
and Forestry University vandalised (kp
15/11/2018), Agriculture
and Forestry University in Chitwan vandalised, set
ablaze (ht 15/11/2018)
Rice
University to offer leadership programme (kp
03/11/2018)
Go-ahead
for
Madan Bhandari university: Cabinet permits the
Education Ministry to draft law for the university
with exclusive focus on Science and Technology, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 26/10/2018)
Ministry
in 10pc medical fee hike talks (kp 11/10/2018)
'Barrier'
policy for MBBS/BDS students questioned: Makes govt
scholarships a waste of state funds, by Bishnu
Prasad Aryal (rep 11/10/2018)
Scholars
call for action to develop Buddhist varsity (kp
01/10/2018)
‘Locating’
the
Missing History Students: At face value, the number of
history students at Tribhuvan University is declining
sharply. But do the numbers put the issue in proper
perspective?, by Pratyoush Onta (kp 29/09/2018)
IOM
medical
and dental entrance exams begin today: Overall, 17,660
students have submitted their forms to take various
medical entrance exams conducted by the Institute of
Medicine (kp 22/09/2018)
Proposal
on University for Peace approved (ht 21/09/2018)
TU
passes Rs 21.1 billion budget for current fiscal year
(rep 19/09/2018)
Foreign
degrees,
domestic colleges: While international universities
partnering with domestic colleges are a good thing,
care must be taken to ensure that these foreign
varsities are reputable, by Binod Ghimire (kp
16/09/2018), Reversing
the brain drain: Unlikely as it may seem, Nepal has
the potential to become an education hub for foreign
students, say experts and practitioners, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 16/09/2018), As
country continues to face a qualified human resource
crunch, graduates from foreign-affiliated colleges are
starting enterprises and working in leading
professional positions (kp 16/09/2018)
No
more
crawling: The academic peers at TU seem to be adopting
‘crawling’ approach when it comes to TU’s
institutional development, by Pranab Kharel and
Gaurab KC (rep 16/09/2018)
TU
criticized for multiple mistakes in question paper
(rep 12/09/2018)
TU
VC office vandalized over question paper leakage
(rep 07/09/2018)
Anarchy
In University Affiliation, by Mukti Rijal (rn
06/09/2018)
Lockout
affects work at Forestry and Agriculture University in
Chitwan (ht 06/09/2018)
BPKIHS
academic block handed over despite 28 major faults,
show records (rep 27/08/2018)
‘Tribhuvan
University should strive for quality education’
(kp 21/08/2018)
Students
bearing the brunt of varsity’s negligence (ht
21/08/2018)
House
panel to consult KC on Medical Edu Bill (kp
20/08/2018), There’s
nothing more to discuss: KC (kp 30/08/2018)
Medical
commission will not hold common entrance test (kp
19/08/2018) [Lacking political
will!]
Going
private: Enrolment in public colleges have fallen by
half in the last decade; private schools are reaping
the benefits, by Binod Ghimire (kp 16/08/2018), The
streams not taken: While technical public
institutions of higher education are among the best in
the country, non-technical schools suffer from
politicization and a lack of leadership and oversight,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 16/08/2018), Fallow
grounds: pursuing a future in forestry and agriculture,
by Alisha Sijapati (kp 16/08/2018)
Founding
failures: Although the country requires new
universities, they must be able to cater to the needs
of students, by Binod Ghimire (kp 16/08/2018)
By
the law, by Sanjeev Giri (kp 16/08/2018)
Need
for more regulations, but also innovation,
interview with Dev Raj Adhikari (kp 16/08/2018)
KC
slams ‘dubious’ appointment process’ (kp
16/08/2018)
Over
71 per cent medical students fail licensing
examination (ht 13/08/2018)
TU
fails to provide transcripts within a day, by
Bikan K Dawadi (rep 07/08/2018)
Edu
Ministry halts NOC for Mauritius (kp 06/08/2018)
Purbanchal
Univ defies Centre, plans to affiliate private
colleges, by Binod Bhandari (kp 03/08/2018)
Tri-Chandra,
Nepal's first college in dire straits, by Diya
Dhakal (rep 03/08/2018)
Reforms
In Medical Education, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
02/08/2018)
TU
associate professor plagiarizes to get promotion
(rep 02/08/2018), We
are taking plagiarism seriously: TU Service Commission
(rep 03/08/2018)
Affiliation
to private colleges stopped (ht 02/08/2018)
Zero
student in masters' programs after semester system
introduced, by Bhim Chapagain (rep 31/07/2018)
TU
officials accused over NMC affiliation dismiss panel
report: The government has assured that action will be
initiated against the 43 accused within two months,
by Nayak Paudel (kp 30/07/2018), TU
dismisses MEPC report, rejects action: Stance goes
against govt-Dr KC agreement, by Bishnu Prasad
Aryal (rep 30/07/2018), Punish
tainted TU officials (rep 31/07/2018)
Govt
criticized
for permitting pvt agricultural, forestry colleges:
After medical sector education, mafias have now eyed
the agriculture and other sectors (rep 30/07/2018)
Reforming
Medical Education, by Mukti Rijal (rn 26/07/2018),
Controversy
Over Medical Bill, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
26/07/2018), Politics
of Medical Education, by Narad Bharadwaj (rn
27/07/2018)
Greater
Reforms Needed, by Narayan Upadhyay (rn
25/07/2018)
CNAS:
Overcoming Hurdles, by Prem Khatry (rn 24/07/2018)
Nepal
Needs More Doctors, by Pradipna Raj Panta (rn
23/07/2018)
PM
Oli pushes TU to prepare HR plan (kp 22/07/2018) [A PM should not be chancellor of a
university! He lacks independence and competence! This
is one of the remnants of royal absolutism! Someone
with not more education than SLC cannot be the
chancellor of a university!!]
The
reign of error: The govt should use its majority to do
good, not undermine academic autonomy, by Pramod
Mishra (kp 19/07/2018)
Teachers
join student protests against Agri Univ’s tie-up
(kp 17/07/2018)
Tikapur
Campus
fighting to get back its 300 bigha land: The Kamaiyas
started encroaching on the land of the campus from
July 8, 2006, by Yogesh Rawal (rep 12/07/2018)
Evidence
should guide policy: Dr KC’s demand to open medical
colleges in rural regions is impractical to fulfil,
by Sujan B Marahatta and Santa M Tamang (kp 11/07/2018)
TU,
Bharatpur metropolis to open engineering college
(ht 10/07/2018)
Prof
Koirala didn’t have permission to fly: Home minister:
Oppn party terms it ‘fascist terror’ by govt (rep
09/07/2018), University
of British Colombia dismayed and shamed (rep
09/07/2018)
Health
Profession Education: Policy sets a precedent for
future public policies, interview with Kedar
Bhakta Mathema (kp 09/07/2018)
Rampur
Agriculture Campus re-opens, by Sabita Shrestha
(rep 08/07/2018)
Govt
registers
National: Medical Education Bill: Legislation does not
address concerns raised by Dr Govinda KC; Congress
leader Thapa says party will block the bill’s passage
(kp 07/07/2018), All
three levels of leftist government ignore RAHS, by
Devendra Basnet (rep 07/07/2018),
PM
sticks
to his guns: Prime Minister Oli says Maitighar Mandala
will remain no-protest zone; Kathmandu will have more
medical colleges to stem student outflow, by Tika
R Pradhan (kp 08/07/2018) [,,,and,
especially, to fill the pockets of leading NCP
politicians and their clientele!], Dr
KC’s health ‘worsens’, by LP Devkota (kp
08/07/2018), A
mare’s nest: The ongoing predicament in humanities and
medical education calls for everyone to fight their
corner more effectively, by Abhi Subedi (kp
08/07/2018), Govt
puts
national medical bill on hold: Officials say the govt
decided not to table the bill after learning that the
NC would obstruct the House if it did so (kp
13/08/2018), Govt
drops plan to table Medical Education Bill (rep
13/07/2018)
Legal
void likely in medical education after Wednesday
(rep 03/07/2018)
Common
medical entrance exams unlikely this session, by
Nayan Paudel (kp 02/07/2018)
Bill
for Med Edu Ordinance tabled: Altering of major
provisions will allow more medical colleges in
Kathmandu Valley, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
30/06/2018), Dr
KC starts hunger strike in Jumla (kp 01/07/2018) [Brutal police force against
against peaceful civil society action!], Dr
KC starts 15th hunger strike, is briefly arrested,
by DB Budha (rep 01/07/2018), Replacement
medical education bill draws flak (rep
01/01/2018), Congress
blocks
replacement bill: Raising questions over process and
contents, opposition wants major provisions of the
ordinance retained, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
02/07/2018), Medical
education bill withdrawn: Old law to come into
force from Wednesday amid protests, by
Rewati Sapkota (ht 02/07/2018), Regressive
bill:
The replacement bill the govt is planning to introduce
will deal a blow to efforts at improving medical
education (ht 03/07/2018)
Thapa
presses govt over medical education ordinance
replacement bill (rep 28/06/2018)
Reforming
higher
education: It is necessary to reform existing teacher
hiring system which focuses much on testing content
knowledge rather than candidates’ research and
professional skills, by Prem Phyak (rep
21/06/2018)
Confucius
Institute to be set up at TU (kp 18/06/2018)
MoEST
to monitor colleges affiliated to foreign varsities
(ht 14/06/2018)
Ministry
takes five decisions to 'improve medical education'
(rep 13/06/2018)
Med
panel mulls holding common entrance test, by Nayak
Paudel (kp 10/06/2018)
Rajbiraj
campus remains padlocked for three months over
affiliation (ht 09/06/2018)
Dr
KC threatens to launch fresh protest (kp
08/06/2018), Endorse
Medical Education Act immediately: Dr KC (rep
08/06/2018)
Medical
Education Commission to allocate scholarships (ht
05/06/2018)
Reviving
TU:
The only force that can transform TU in the immediate
future is university students who are bearing the
brunt of its intellectual demise, by Ajit Rai (rep
05/06/2018)
700
permanent TU teachers in Valley are under-worked,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 04/06/2018)
Court
upholds
decision to cut medical fees: Private medical colleges
had moved the court demanding scrapping of Rs2.2m fee
ceiling (kp 29/05/2018)
TU
to provide transcript in a single day (kp
28/05/2018)
Lack
of fund hits rebuilding of university properties
(kp 27/05/2018)
Eleven
university contact offices in Kathmandu valley to be
closed (ht 26/05/2018)
Medical
students protest against exorbitant fees (kp
15/05/2018), ‘Scrap
medical colleges that break fee ceiling’ (kp
16/05/2018), Pvt
medical colleges under TU charging extra fees for PG
students (rep 16/05/2018), Medical
students stage sit-in outside VC Khaniya’s office
(kp 17/05/2018)
TU
deprives teachers of Chinese scholarships, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 15/05/2018)
KUSoEd
grads to form alumni (kp 14/05/2018)
Transitioning
to
research in a subaltern university: A subaltern
history of research (in) universities like TU would
allow us to rescue the unknown MA thesis writer from
the ‘enormous condescension’ of the academic
historians who have documented the history of higher
education/research in elite universities world over,
by Pratyoush Onta (kp 12/05/2018)
Academic
blues: Public universities should serve the larger
public and not those at the helm of affairs (kp
09/05/2018)
TU
senate meeting put off (kp 07/05/2018)
FCGO
provides research grant to university students (ht
05/05/2018)
20
per cent attendance must in NOU (ht 29/04/2018)
Failed
student-led
rebuilding of TU: A proposed initiative to re-build
TU’s quake-damaged buildings by raising money from the
alumni could have potentially changed the
university’s future in a dramatic way; but it was not
to be, by Pratyoush Onta (kp 28/04/2018)
Academy
opens to teach Newari architecture (kp 27/04/2018)
Redesigning
our
universities: Teachers and students and the public
alike will be thirstier for new knowledge if
university education is defined as and designed for
putting research first, by Shyam Sharma (rep
26/04/2018)
Central
Department of Psychology padlocked (ht 24/04/2018)
TU
to shut unpopular departments, by Binod Ghimire
(kp 21/04/2018)
What
private
colleges can do: Without greater advancement and
integration of research, academic and professional
development support, and innovation in teaching,
private colleges can no longer justify their cost or
define their social contribution, by Shyam Sharma
(rep 10/04/2018)
NEB
begins discussion on admission criteria (ht
08/04/2018)
TU
campuses to be made tobacco-free zone (ht
07/04/2018)
First
year law admissions halt as union locks office (kp
05/04/2018)
House
endorses HPE Ordinance: Law bars establishment
of new medical schools in Kathmandu Valley for a
decade, by Manish Gautam (kp 04/04/2018), Drawing
the line: Law prohibiting establishment of new medical
colleges in Kathmandu for 10 years is positive (kp
05/04/2018), ‘Govt
should bring replacement bill soon’ (ht
05/04/2018)
IoM
awaits TU approval for medical seats, fees, by
Manish Gautam (kp 03/04/2018)
NSU,
Oxford University sign agreement: To conduct joint
researches, exchange programmes (ht 25/03/2018)
Now
Dr KC takes aim at TU VC Khaniya (rep 17/03/2018)
TU
is
dead: TU has degenerated into an intellectually dead
institution. If it had been kept away from baneful
political meddling, it would be alive, by Ajit Rai
(rep 01/03/2018), Why
I said TU is dead: Serious intellectual effort made by
few ideal professors is not enough to produce the
force strong enough to propel intellectual engine of a
university, by Ajit Rai (rep 14/03/2018)
Commission
seizes papers from forest university: A team from
Hetauda raided Agriculture University (ht
25/02/2018)
Implement
the report: The probe panel has made a fine set of
proposals to ensure quality medical education, by
Kahar Singh Khadka (kp 23/02/2018)
All
eyes on Oli-led government over its possible move on
HPE Act, by Manish Gautam (kp 20/02/2018)
Semester
system leads to decline of student politics at
colleges (ht 20/02/2018)
LAN-AITM,
Rice University to launch training initiative (ht
17/02/2018)
Dozen
plus outfits run non-TU activities on its premises,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 14/02/2018)
TU
blames SC, MEPC for its own weaknesses (rep
12/02/2018)
NOU
set to launch master’s degree programme (ht
11/02/2018)
Enabling
semester system, by Jiva Nath Lamsal (rep
11/02/2018)
Quake-damaged
technical academy to be rebuilt (ht 11/02/2018)
Probe
committee suggests reforms in medical education
(ht 06/02/2018), Student
unions demand immediate resignation of top TU
officials (rep 06/02/2018)
Pvt
med colleges demand extra Rs1 million from MBBS
students, by Manish Gautam (kp 31/01/2018), TU
unable to take action against medical colleges
(rep 31/01/2018)
TU
to implement semester system across country (ht
31/01/2018)
CTEVT
to open technical colleges in all provinces (ht
28/01/2018)
Protest
on at Agriculture and Forestry University (ht
26/01/2018)
No
medical college for MBBS degree in two provinces,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 23/01/2018)
TU
to introduce credit transfer system (ht
20/01/2018)
Unleashing
opportunity: Reforms in higher education must, by
Bishwo Bandhu Pokharel (ht 17/01/2018)
Time
for overhaul: When I did not allow the student to
cheat, he formed a ‘gang’ and was waiting to punish me
outside, by Jiva Nath Lamsal (rep 16/01/2018)
Being
a ‘smart’ student: If the formal courses in Nepali
universities come with their contextual limitations,
being smart means being alert to contemporaneous
opportunities elsewhere, by Pratyoush Onta (kp
13/01/2018)
Supreme
Court reinstates Dr Sharma as IoM dean (ht
08/01/2018), SC
ruling on IoM dean splits legal experts (kp
08/01/2018), Fresh
dispute looms over IoM (kp 11/01/2018), Govt
inks five-point agreement with Dr KC (ht
13/01/2018), TU,
IoM not on the same page over dean (kp 16/01/2018)
UGC
spending on research negligible (ht 08/01/2018)
TU’s
‘lingering’
in seat endorsement jeopardised medicine programme:
IoM; TU council has to endorse the total number of
seats before IoM can begin counseling of the students
(kp 07/01/2018), Bowing
to pressure, TU endorses seat allocation (kp
08/01/2018)
The
other way around: With the right policies, Nepal can
be turned into a destination for foreign students,
by Rajesh Chapagain (kp 07/01/2018)
Staff
protest at kist medical college: Students urge IoM,
NMC to resolve college dispute (kp 05/01/2018)
Medicine
studies: Test compulsory before pursuing postgrad
abroad (kp 01/01/2018)
Reforming
TU from below: Those who work in TU and are brave
enough to not bow down to party-based apparatchiks
have to step up, by Pratyoush Onta (kp 28/12/2017)
Reversing
the
brain drain: Exposure to international curricula makes
students more competent and qualifies them for job
options globally (kp 28/12/2017)
Aboard
the MBA train (kp 28/12/2017), Ready
for the market (kp 28/12/2017)
NAMS
to run bachelor’s levelprogramme on optometry (ht
26/12/2017)
High
Court upholds earlier stay on IoM (kp 22/12/2017)
MBBS
fees at med schools: IoM takes steps to curb
overcharging (kp 17/12/2017)
Educationists
demand ranking of colleges (ht 17/12/2017)
Student
unions, TU trade blame at delay in Master’s degree
exams in Valley, by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (kp
13/12/2017)
Less
number of students going abroad to study medicine
(ht 12/12/2017)
MBBS
entrance test: Fresh exam on Dec 2 under tight
security, by Manish Gautam (kp 02/12/2017), IoM
conducts MBBS entrance test amid tight security
(kp 03/12/2017), IoM
publishes MBBS entrance re-examination results: The
pass percentage this year is comparatively lower than
that of last year (ht 05/12/2017)
KU
to start master’s level study in technical and
vocational education (kp 30/11/2017)
Medical
college under PU runs into controversy: MoE, NMC in
dark about decision to let Koshi Zonal Hospital run
MBBS course (kp 28/11/2017)
IoM
to seek police help to conduct MBBS test: Entrance
examination to be held on December 2 amid tight
security (kp 26/11/2017), Entrance
a must for overseas PG courses (ht 26/11/2017)
NMC
turns
down KU’s request to add up quotas: 3 months after the
NMC fixed quotas, KU on November 16 requested
for added MBBs seats (kp 25/11/2017)
TU
leaves it for the IoM to decide on test legitimacy,
by Anuj Kumar Adhikari (kp 17/11/2017), IoM
voids MBBS entrance exam, to fix new date soon (kp
20/11/2017)
Ministry
presses NMC to allocate seats to National (kp
07/11/2017)
Same
old syllabus: College students are going abroad since
they can’t get modern research-based education here,
by Pragyan Bhattarai (kp 29/10/2017)
Entrance
exam
cheating case: Prolonged probe to affect TU’s MBBS
calendar; An investigation is under way after some
students were caught using wireless devices to cheat
in the IoM entrance test, by Manish Gautam
(kp 28/10/2017), Papers
might have been leaked, police tell IoM: No
involvement of IoM officials: Crime division, by
Manish Gautam (kp 06/11/2017)
Sanskrit
getting popular among foreign students, by Ujjwal
Satyal (ht 26/10/2017)
Focusing
on
innovation: Today’s medical school curricula need to
incorporate core aspects of innovation to ensure
quality health care, by Manoj Bhattarai (kp
20/10/2017)
11
held from MBBS entrance test (kp 15/10/2017)
House
passes bill to set up varsity in Province 2 (kp
13/10/2017)
Few
students opting for language major at TU (ht
10/10/2017)
Prof
Gajurel’s strike enters 12th day (ht 09/10/2017)
Bill
tabled to set up medical academy in in Dang’s Ghorahi
(kp 07/10/2017), Bill
endorsed
to set up new health academy in Dang: Health Minister
Pokharel says setting up Rapti Academy of Health
Sciences will expand medical access to public in
the region (kp 11/10/2017)
Colleges
told
to follow govt-set fee structure: The IoM has
instructed the private medical colleges
not to charge fees in arbitrary basis (kp
17/09/2017)
House
to
pass Acts on two varsities before dissolution: Bills
to set up Nepalgunj University in Banke and Rajarshi
Janak in Dhanusha are under consideration in the
Committee on Women, Children and Elderly Citizens
(kp 16/09/2017)
TU
body without member-secretary for 3 months, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 15/09/2017)
Communication
academy soon, says minister (kp 10/09/2017)
Teachers,
professors warn of stern agitation (kp 06/09/2017)
TU
panel ‘falsified’ National College inspection report,
by Manish Gautam (kp 22/08/2017), National’s
Ghattekulo hospital run illegally, by Manish
Gautam (kp 23/08/2017), Cronyism
to the maximum: Investigate the falsified report that
granted KNMC affiliation and punish the guilty (kp
23/08/2017), Dr
KC demands annulment of Kathmandu National affiliation,
by Manish Gautam (kp 24/08/2017), TU
remains defiant despite broadcriticism over national
med college (kp 26/08/2017), Kathmandu
National Hospital will be shut: Health Ministry
(kp 29/08/2017), TU
suspends Kathmandu National Medical College
affiliation (rep 03/09/2017), NMA
urges Deuba to scrap KNMC affiliation (kp
04/09/2017), TU
scraps
National Medical College affiliation: Fresh inspection
by a varsity-formed team finds facility without
doctors, patients and staff (kp 07/09/2017), The
next step forward: TU’s decision to rescind its
misinformed decision on KNMC was much needed (kp
08/09/2017)
National
denies merit students admission, again, by Manish
Gautam (kp 06/08/2017)
Academic
Accommodations For Disabled, by Dev Datta Joshi
(rn 05/08/2017)
MPs’
reservations block endorsement of Health Profession
Education Bill, by Binod Ghimire (kp 30/07/2017)
IoM
asst deans refuse to assume office: Say they have been
given ‘ambiguous office term’ (kp 27/07/2017)
Lumbini
Buddhist University senate endorses master-plan, new
degrees (rep 26/07/2017)
SC’s
interim
order denial paves way for merit grads’ admission:
Apex court rejects enrolled students’ plea for halt in
new admissions (kp 21/07/2017)
TU
to
resume BSc agriculture classes (ht 19/07/2017)
Not
a
single college, univ property rebuilt in 2 yrs: The
main administrative building of the TU having offices
of vice-chancellor, rector and the registrar, was
totally destroyed (kp 18/07/2017)
State
of
confusion: There was a suggestion from a former vice
chancellor of a university to do away with publication
of journal articles and books, by Pranab Kharel
(rep 16/07/2017)
Docs’
associations
press Universal to admit listed grads (kp
15/07/2017)
MD/MS
adminission:
Two medical colleges seek hefty extra sums, by
Manish Gautam (kp 14/07/2017)
Reversing
brain
drainLosing thousands of youths to other countries
every year is bad; we must create incentives for them
to return home, by Byanjana Sharma (kp 13/07/2017)
PMO
tells
colleges to admit merit grads (kp 08/07/2017)
Petition
against
med college admission denial: Apex court postpones
hearing by five days (kp 05/07/2017)
Agriculture
and
Forestry University padlocked: Affiliation to private
colleges caused stir (ht 05/07/2017)
Questions
raised
over TU examinations office (ht 04/07/2017)
Universal
and
National deny enrolment again, by Manish Gautam
(kp 01/07/2017), NMA
tells
med colleges to honour merit list (kp 02/07/2017),
Postgraduate
admission
rules flouted: Medical colleges in bid to seek
political refuge (kp 03/07/2017)
Disregard
of
the merit list is but an example of malpractices in
medical education sector (kp 30/06/2017)
Enrol
students
on merit basis: SC (kp 29/06/2017)
Emerging
Young Generation, by Prem Khatry (rn 27/06/2017)
Students
on
merit list denied seats: National, Universal colleges
say their quotas are full, by Manish Gautam (kp
25/06/2017), Students
warn
of stern protest (kp 26/06/2017)
Burning
Issues In University Curriculum, by Kushal
Pokharel (rn 24/06/2017)
Helpless
giant:
Nepal’s oldest and largest university has been
stumbling from one problem to another, by Dharani
Kumar Sharma (kp 23/06/2017)
Medical
colleges told to cancel illegal postgraduate
admissions (rep 23/06/2017)
Dr
Thapa
continues as KU registrar (kp 20/06/2017)
Experts
raise concern over fees charged by medical colleges
(rep 18/06/2017), Experts
raise
concerns over exorbitant fees (kp 20/06/2017), Rs
3.1m
fee set for MD/MS courses (kp 22/06/2017)
TU
plans to buy plagiarism checking tools at exorbitant
price (rep 14/06/2017)
Adapt
and
learn: Even when we know how we are supposed to behave
in a new system, we don’t realize we are resisting or
not making the shift, by Shyam Sharma (rep
14/06/2017)
Industry-Academy
Interface:
Together they bloom; The recruiters, to their dismay,
are rarely able to find right hires from among new
graduates, by Roshee Lamichhane Bhushal (rep
14/06/2017)
Edu
Ministry
instructs TU to set MD/MS fees (kp 08/06/2017), Delay
in
fixing PG fees to hit IoM table: oM has yet to counsel
students who are set to be assigned to different
medical colleges affiliated to TU (kp 08/06/2017)
Irregularities
in
admission process: NMC, Universal told to follow merit
system; The institute of Medicine writes to the
National Medical College and the Universal Medical
College to enrol students based on merit after it was
reported that they had been admitting students
charging exorbitant fees, by Manish Gautam (kp
02/06/2017)
State-owned
campuses fail to deliver quality education: 300 to 600
students are enrolled in a single class at Tri-Chandra
Campus, by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 25/05/2017)
Agriculture
and Forestry University finally gets administrative
building, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (rep 20/05/2017)
TU
teachers to stage protest from Thursday (rep
17/05/2017)
Health
Ministry
suspends Manipal licence (kp 01/05/2017)
Affiliation
to
colleges: Lumbini Buddhist University flouting rules:
Report, by Binod Ghimire (kp 28/04/2017)
Restructuring
Universities, by Mukti Rijal (rn 30/03/2017)
Controversial
Appointments, by Govinda Bahadur Tumbahang (rn
18/03/2017)
Semester
system for master's level in all TU Valley campuses
(rep 15/03/2017)
Committee
tells govt to transform NAMS into an umbrella
university (rep 15/03/2017)
Rs9m
Japanese
grant for KU (kp 14/03/2017)
Govt
appoints
VCs at four health institutes (kp 03/03/2017), Govt
breaches poll code, appoints 4 VCs (rep
03/03/2017)
TU,
KU
part of Unesco Chair programme (kp 27/02/2017)
Unpaid
staffers
padlock Janaki Medical College (ht 24/02/2017)
‘Uni
education
should produce capable people’: Prez says
well-educated and skilled youths could propel country
towards the path of development (kp 21/02/2017)
Studying
abroad:
It can be a boon if we find out why students leave
Nepal and come up with ways to attract them back,
by Rajesh Chapagain and Ratna Bhattarai (kp 17/02/2017)
Scholarship
students say medical colleges cheating them, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 16/02/2017)
Protest
against
KU shutdown (kp 04/02/2017)
Health
Ministry
set to run PG programmes in big govt hospitals: Each
student who wishes to be enrolled in the course will
have to sign a bond first, says Minister Thapa, by
Manish Gautam (kp 03/02/2017)
KU
padlocked
for past 11 days; classes hit (kp 02/02/2017)
Seed
processing
centre at agriculture university (ht 24/01/2017)
TU
reluctant to issue appointment letters to assistant
lecturers (rep 23/01/2017)
VC
posts
in 3 med academies: Panel starts review of application
(kp 22/01/2017)
Dr
Makaju
reappointed as VC of KU, by Manish Gautam (kp
21/01/2017)
PM
to
seek work plan from VC nominees before appointment,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 08/01/2017), PM
Dahal
yet to appoint VC at KU (kp 10/01/2017), Sr
KU
officials demand Senate meeting pronto (kp
12/01/2017)
10
doctors’
associations against TU Senate decision (kp
07/01/2017)
Valley’s
public
colleges losing their sheen? Number of students in
public campuses in Kathmandu and Lalitpur has been on
the decline, thanks to their failure to offer new
academic courses, by Samipa Khanal (kp 06/01/2017)
Rediscovering
Tribhuvan University, by Narad Bharadwaj (rn
06/01/2017)
PM
Dahal
stresses need of reforming TU (kp 05/01/2017)
ANNISU-R
padlocks medical colleges, VC offices (rep
16/12/2016)
KU
VC
appointment: Minister-led search panel yet to
recommend Makaju’s successor, by Manish Gautam and
Binod Ghimire (kp 12/12/2016), Three-member
panel
fails to reach unanimity (kp 13/12/2016), KU
faces
leadership void first time in 25 years: Search
committee yet to reach consensus on VC appointment,
by Manish Gautam and Binod Ghimire (kp 14/12/2016), KU
urges
MoE to pick acting VC for smooth operations (kp
15/12/2016), KU
registrar
to be acting VC (kp 18/12/2016), VC
appointment
at KU marred by politics (kp 21/12/2016), Search
panel
recommends five names for KU VC (kp 26/12/2016), No
to
politicisation: KU’s reputation as an independent and
credible educational institution is at stake (kp
27/12/2016), Politics
Usurps Academic Space, by Mukti Rijal (29/12/2016)
Cheerleaders
for
education: The TU leadership must quickly implement
training programs for faculties, create academic
support beyond class for students and take up advocacy,
by Shyam Sharma (rep 12/12/2016)
PAHS
examination:
Govt launches probe into MBBS entrance results (kp
05/12/2016)
PM
Dahal
pledges additional budget to NAST (ht 03/12/2016)
Sanskrit
University moving to lease 200 bigha land to Patanjali,
by Devendra Basnet (rep 29/11/2016), Locals
regret
donating land to Nepal Sanskrit University, by
Devendra Basnet (rep 30/11/2016), ‘PM
ready
to lease university land to Ramdev’, by Durga Lal
KC (kp 02/12/2016)
Whither
research? Unlike in India and China the universities in
Nepal don’t publish any quality journals, by Angel
Sharma (rep 29/11/2016)
TU
forms
panel to look into IoM dean appointment row (kp
24/11/2016), IoM
to
students: Abide by campus rules: Warns of stern action
if ‘they support Dr KC’ (kp 24/112016)
UGC
vice
chairman calls for ending arbitrary affiliations: The
regulatory body’s responsibility is merely
limited to providing grants to universities and
community college (kp 23/11/2016), Minister
Paudel
seeks greater role for UGC (ht 23/11/2016)
Manipal
Medical
College to resume classes from today: The strike
staged by the teachers demanding salary hike and
permanent positions for tenure teachers, has affected
around 300 students studying in the college (kp
17/11/2016)
KU
VC’s
office vandalised (kp 15/11/2016), Ruling
Maoist party's students vandalise KU VC's office,
by Madhusudhan Guragai (rep 15/11/2016), ANNISU-R
leader
held for vandalising KU VC office (kp 17/11/2016),
‘PM
attends
KU convocation after his party cadre was freed’
(kp 23/11/2016) [???]
TU
appoints Dr. KP Singh IoM dean amid controversy: Dr KC
begins hunger strike demanding sack for TU VC Khaniya,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 14/11/2016), Dr
KC
on fast against new IoM dean (kp 14/11/2016), What
does
the IoM dean issue mean? Orthopedic surgeon Govinda
KC’s protracted fight against ‘political hand-picking’
continues (kp 16/11/2016)
Govt
set
to establish NIET (ht 11/11/2016)
Problems
of
education: We should improve the existing universities
instead of issuing permits to new ones left and right,
by Umesh Raj Regmi (kp 09/11/2016)
Govt
yet
to appoint Open University officials (ht 09/11/2016)
House
panel:
Halt affiliations from foreign varsities: It also
decides to form a sub-panel to determine possible
measures for reforms of higher education system (kp
21/10/2016)
TU
property
handover: Edu Minister Poudel promises to resolve
long-running dispute (kp 18/10/2016)
Gentle,
semester-ward: Changing from the annual to the semester
system will improve education to the extent that we
improve practice and culture of teaching and learning,
by Shyam Sharma (rep 18/10/2016)
Govt
tables
bill at House to set up varsity in Province 2 (kp
05/10/2016)
TU gave
affiliation to campuses without own premises, by
Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 01/10/2016)
Mismanagement,
lack
of resources ail TU Central Library, by Gyanu
Sapkota (rep 23/09/2016)
Classes
halted
at Agriculture and Forestry University (ht
18/09/2016)
PU
plans
to run medical college in Morang: PU Vice-chancellor
says the varsity has initiated works to develop Koshi
Zonal Hospital as a medical college (kp 16/09/2016)
Dabur
Nepal,
TU sign agreement (kp 02/09/2016)
PM
urged
not to interfere in TU activities (ht 29/08/2016)
Classless
society:
Open universities allow students to receive education at
home through distance learning, by Umesh Raj Regmi
(kp 05/08/2016)
Mockery
of
education: Knowledge and ethics have been overshadowed
by the need to get a degree for financial gain, by
Sujeev Shakya (kp 02/08/2016)
Free
Wi-Fi
service on TU premises (kp 16/07/2016)
Mathema
resigns
as KU senate member, by Manish Gautam (kp
06/07/2016)
Govt
initiates
process to set up infra academy (kp 03/07/2016)
Tenth
university
in the offing: Open University Bill to be passed by
‘next’ meeting of Parliament; New varsity to ease
admission pressure, by Binod Ghimire (kp
26/06/2016), House
endorses
Open University Bill (ht 01/07/2016), Way
paved for establishing open university in Nepal, by
Ashok Dahal (rep 02/07/2016)
University
Education
In Crisis, by Kushal Pokharel (rn 04/06/2016)
TU
signs
MoU with Tibet University (ht 03/06/2016)
House
panel
endorses open university bill (ht 02/06/2016), Open
university (ht 03/06/2016)
AFU-TU
dispute
recurs in Rampur (ht 31/05/2016)
Over
1,000
colleges only temporarily affiliated to Tribhuvan
University (ht 09/04/2016)
Politics
In Higher Education: Threat To Safe Academic Space,
by Mukti Rijal (rn 07/04/2016)
Govt
committee
advises against MMIHS takeover, by Manish Gautam (kp
25/03/2016)
TU
to
set up Himalayan research centre (ht 23/03/2016)
Birth
pangs:
There is a challenge to establish academia as a serious
profession and not just stepping stone into the
consultancy world, by Pranab Kharel and Gaurab KC
(09/03/2016)
Teachers
protest
against TUSC vacancy announcement: Tribhuvan University
should induct skilled and qualified manpower through
open competition (ht 28/02/2016), Lecturers
continue
protest against university officials: Tribhuvan
university aims to hire 1,200 lecturers through internal
competi-tion, while lecturers demand scrapping the call
(kp 01/03/2016)
Engineering
college
found operating without affiliation to university,
by Shreeram Sigdel (ht 27/02/2016)
Nepal,
Germany
sign mutual scientific cooperation deal (ht
25/02/2016), NAST,
IASS
sign MoU for scientific cooperation (rep 25/02/2016)
TU
to
hire teachers only through open competition (kp
25/02/2016)
TU
central
campus to become WiFi enabled (ht 19/02/2016)
Reconstruction,
quality
enhancement: TU seeks donor support (kp
15/02/2016)
TU
starts
consultation regarding FSU polls (ht 13/02/2016),
TU
to
take decision on FSU polls by next week (ht
27/02/2016)
One
day
in Kirtipur: If we turn universities into power camps,
we will destroy Nepal’s tertiary educational system,
by Abhi Subedi (kp 07/02/2016)
TU
set
to propose date for FSU polls (ht 07/02/2016)
TU
lecturers
staging relay hunger strike (ht 06/02/2016)
Futures
on
hold: Political and natural disasters are taking their
toll on academic life, by Binod Ghimire (kp
23/01/2016)
Post
of
registrar in three universities still vacant (ht
18/01/2016)
Rescuing
TU:
Tu should be able to take disciplinary action against
teachers, whether they teach at private campuses or
not, if they do not do their duty at Tu properly
(ht 15/01/2016)
SC
convicts
mid-western university staff for corruption (ht
12/01/2016)
Row
between
varsities leaves students in lurch (ht 02/01/2016)
Saubhagya
Shah
award for TU peace studies: The award will be given to
the student securing highest marks in Conflict, Peace
and Development Study from next year (kp
18/12/2015)
Master’s
students
could miss exams, by Shankar Acharya (kp
01/12/2015)
TU
central
college halts regular classes, by Anup Ojha (kp
27/11/2015)
IoM
extends
admission deadline of MBBS, BDS (ht 17/11/2015)
TU
reschedules
exams in Tarai districts (ht 10/11/2015)
Follow
set
fee structure, MoE tells med colleges (ht
02/11/2015)
Few
students
enrol in tea technology course: The campus started
offering a tea technology course four years ago to
produce human resources in the sector, by Parbat
Portel (kp 28/10/2015)
MU
Service
Commission gets first woman chairperson (ht
16/10/2015)
TU
Central
Library in shambles post quake, by Anup Ojha (kp
25/09/2015)
Universities
unlocked
after deal on apptts: NPPA has been offered posts of
two ViceChancellors and member-secretary at UGC
(kp 23/09/2015), Two
more
VCs appointed (kp 24/09/2015)
PU
profs
bar new VC from joining office, by Binod Bhandari
(kp 12/09/2015)
Rebuilding
Nepal:
The Open University Initiative (OUI) aims to take
education opportunities to the grassroots communities,
by Raju Adhikari, Pramod Dhakal, Drona Rasali and Ambika
Adhikari (rep 09/09/2015)
Professors
urge
TU to split Sociology, Anthropology dept (kp
02/09/2015)
Mathema
report
implementation in progress: MoE (ht 01/09/2015)
Incoming
TU Leadership Challenges And Opportunities, by
Jeevan K. Prasain (rn 23/08/2015), Candidates
recommended
for VCs in four universities amid controversy (ht
24/08/2015), Khaniya
picked
as TU VC charged with plagiarism, by Nirjana
Sharma (rep 24/08/2015), VCs
appointed
in four universities: Nepal gets first female Vice
Chancellor in Prof Shrestha, by Kokila KC (ht
25/08/2015), PM
Koirala
appoints VCs in five universities (kp 25/08/2015),
Three
VCs
join office amid protest (ht 25/08/2015), Dhakal
new
VC at Agriculture Forest University (ht
226/08/2015), UML-affiliated
NPPA
padlocks univ buildings (kp 26/08/2015), Copy
and
paste: Khaniya as TU-VC highlights how lightly
academic credentials are taken in Nepal (kp
27/08/2015), New
TU Vice Chancellor: The Tasks And Challenges Ahead,
by Mukti Rijal (rn 28/08/2015), UML
accuses
NC of making political appointments unilaterally
(ht 28/08/2015), VC
appointments
condemned (kp 28/08/2015), VC
offices
at 5 universities padlocked for 6 days (rep
29/08/2015), Protests
keep
VCs off offices (kp 01/09/2015)
Himalaya
College
shut as students, police clash (kp 21/08/2015)
Power-sharing
tussle
delays VC appointments (kp 20/08/2015), ‘Appoint
VCs
from among academics, experts’ (ht 20/08/2015) [Leave political persons completely
out and appoint academic chancellors!!]
TU
to
review permission to pvt colleges to run BBM course
(ht 14/08/2015)
Ex-acting
PU
VC accused of financial irregularities, by Binod
Bhandari (kp 13/08/2015)
TU,
Aus
varsity collaborate (kp 13/08/2015)
Minister-led
committees
to recommend names for 7 VCs (kp 09/08/2015)
Open
University
hopes high amid new bill (kp 07/08/2015), CA
members
pledge to table Open University Bill 2015 (ht
07/08/2015)
Creative
destruction:
Purbanchal University is a lesson on how not to start
a new university in Nepal. But is anyone listening?,
by Pratyoush Onta, Devendra Uprety and Lokranjan
Parajuli (07/08/2015), Shrestha
retires
as
PU vice chancellor: Leaves behind tenure of
corruption, scandal, dispute, by Binod Bhandari
(08/08/2015)
Shun
political
appointment of VCs, NUTA tells PM (ht 06/08/2015)
Govt
unveils
health edu policy report, by Manish Gautam (kp
05/08/2015),
Policy
report
made public (ht 05/08/2015), Health
profession
education policy (kp 09/07/2015)
Watch
and
wait: There is no need for the govt to be in a hurry
to establish new universities (kp 05/08/2015)
Call
to
end all political appointments in universities (ht
04/08/2015)
Another
bill
to open new university: Bills registered for Nepalgunj
and Rajarshi Janak Universities even as TU hesitates to
share property (kp 01/08/2015)
NUTA
gives
ultimatum to Kathmandu University (ht 01/08/2015)
Making
managers:
Nepal needs high-class management education to benefit
from its valuable resources, by Suresh Raj Sharma
(kp 31/07/2015)
Health
profession
edu policy: KC warns to begin fast-unto-death (kp
31/07/2015)
Unions
lobby
for univ VCs (kp 30/07/2015)
KU
buildings
built without design approval, by Nagendra Adhikari
(kp 29/07/2015)
New
programmes
at varsity (ht 28/07/2015)
TU
to
shift two campuses to Kirtipur (ht 18/07/2015)
Management
malfeasance:
Janaki Medical College’s woes should serve as a warning
to the many private colleges in the country that are
cutting corners and delivering less than a quality
education, by Manish Gautam (kp 20/06/2015)
International
NEWS
conference kicks off (ht 19/06/2015)
JMC
students
face uncertain future, by Manish Gautam (kp
18/06/2015)
Lumbini
University
passes academic masterplan (ht 12/06/2015)
Quake
Damage And TU: Institutional Reengineering Needed,
by Mukti Rijal (rn 11/06/2015)
Valley
colleges
face shortage of classrooms: Campus chiefs struggle to
adjust students as classes resume today, by Kokila
KC (ht 05/06/2015), Colleges
fail
to resume classes for lack of classrooms; Academic
activities to start tomorrow: Campus chiefs (ht
06/06/2015)
UGC
plans
to visit varsities, campuses damaged by quak: Loss
caused to TU to the tune of Rs 2 billion (ht
02/06/2015)
TU
students
return to capital to resume studies: Say they might have
lost homes and property in districts but have not lost
hope, fighting spirit, by Som Nath Ghimire (ht
28/05/2015)
TU
loss
estimated to be over Rs 2 billion: Several structures in
Kirtipur, constituent campuses damaged (ht
23/05/2015), TU
relies
on its own resources, well-wishers to rebuild from
rubble, by Binod Ghimire (kp 24/05/2015)
PhD
and
promotion at TU: Meritocracy should prevail, by
Balakeshwar Thakur (ht 07/05/2015)
TU
to
remain closed for a month, exam on time (ht
05/05/2015)
Dispute
between
Lab School, TU deepens: Institution refuses to oblige
to varsity’s demand to relocate, by Som Nath
Ghimire (ht 12/04/2015)
PM’s
Office
blocks CTEVT affiliation to nursing colleges, by
Manish Gautam (kp 10/04/2015)
Reinstate
Shrestha,
Pathak: Supreme Court (ht 06/04/2015)
Medical
colleges
needing affiliation push for turning BPKHIS into
varsity, by Rohit Rai (rep 02/04/2015)
Problems
remain
in govt, doc talks: Dr KC refuses to back down until
TU office bearers sacked; Thousands affected by
medicos’ protest, by Manish Gautam (kp
02/04/2015), Sins
of
omission: NC-UML still seems unconcerned about the
health of Dr Govinda KC (kp 02/04/2015), Dr
KC
adamant Yadav must resign, by Kritagya Regmi (ht
02/04/2015), Too
big
to dismantle, by Mahabir Paudyal (rep 02/04/2015),
Dr
KC
ends fast after 11-pt deal with govt (kp
03/04/2015), Dr
KC
breaks fast-unto-death, by Kritagya Regmi (ht
03/04/2015), Power
of
satyagraha: Dr Govinda KC’s hunger strike and the
widespread support it gathered shows that all is not
lost, by Abhi Subedi (kp 05/04/2015), Without
political
will, Dr KC’s demands cannot be fulfilled,
interview with Sharad Onta (kp 06/04/2015)
NMA
to
shut OPDs across country, by Manish Gautam (kp
01/04/2015), Nationwide
strike
in health services begins today, by Kritagya Regmi
(ht 01/04/2015),
CIAA
prescribes
reforms in med education sector (kp 01/04/2015), UML
denies
role in med education row (kp 01/04/2015)
Curers
of
maladies: Campaigners behind KC should remember that
it's politicians who make or brake history rather than
interpreters in law, medicine or journalism, by
C.K. Lal (rep 30/03/2015)
Fee
row
deprives engineers of licence, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
09/03/2015)
TU
tells
IoM to grant affiliations, by Binod Ghimire and
Manish Gautam (kp 04/03/2015), IoM
may
call urgent meet to decide affiliation issue, by
Manish Gautam and Binod Ghimire (kp 05/03/2015), IoM
undecided
on affiliation issue (kp 08/03/2015), Dr
KC
warns of another strike (kp 13/03/2015), Decide
affiliations
in a week, TU tells IoM, by Binod Ghimire and
Manish Gautam (kp 14/03/2015), IoM
undecided
over calling board meeting (ht 16/03/2015), IoM
bows
to TU pressure, meet to discuss affiliation (kp
17/03/2015), IoM
denies
affiliations despite heat, by Manish Gautam (kp
20/03/2015), IoM
affiliation
halted until further notice: Move comes amid intense
pressure from govt,parties (ht 20/03/2015), IoM
draws
criticism for halting affiliation process: Senior
doctors, medical college proprietors take exception to
faculty board decision (ht 21/03/2015), 223
students
expelled, invigilator suspended (ht 21/03/2015), Dr
KC
says he will stage hunger strike from today (ht
22/03/2015), Dr
KC
on hunger strike for fifth time (kp 23/03/2015), Dr
KC
goes on hunger strike for fifth time (ht
23/03/2015), IoM
dean
directs Dr KC not to stage protest at TUTH (kp
24/03/2015), Dr
KC
turns down IoM request not to stage fast-unto-death
(ht 24/03/2015), Fifth
time
farce: IoM must continue to refuse medical
affiliations until a policy is drafted (kp
24/03/2015), IoM
students
to boycott classes, by Kritagya Regmi, IoM
students
urge PM to respond to Dr KC’s concerns (ht
26/03/2015), Dr
KC’s
health worsens (kp 27/03/2015), Dr
KC’s
health deteriorating, say docs attending to him,
by Kritagya Regmi (ht 27/03/2015), The
accountability
of Sushil Koirala: Dr Govinda KC (alive) and Nanda
Prasad Adhikari (dead) speak for the weak and desolate,
by Kanak Mani Dixit (kp 27/03/2015), To
the
good doctor: I do not support Dr KC’s cause if the
final aim is to halt affiliations for new medical
colleges at any cost, by Subhash Lakhe (kp
27/03/2015), Can’t
halt
affiliation just because someone is protesting: TU
(ht 27/03/2015), Affiliation
row (ht 27/03/2015), Govt
forms
committee to talk to fasting doc, by Anup Ojha (kp
28/03/2015), Cabinet
assigns
two ministers for talks with Dr KC, by Kritagya
Regmi (ht 28/03/2015), Address
Dr
KC’s
demands in 24 hrs: NMA to govt, by Manish Gautam
(kp 29/03/2015), NMA
serves
24-hour ultimatum (ht 29/03/2015), Medical
bodies
throw weight behind Dr KC: Docs warn of consequences
if demands not met, by Manish Gautam (kp
30/03/2015), Show
some
spine Strong stand must be taken against political
corruption in med education (kp 30/03/2015), Dr
Govinda
KC’s health worsens: Refuses to be shifted to ICU,says
he’d rather die, by Kritagya Regmi (ht
30/03/2015), PM
steps
in to address demands: Chief secy, NPC vice-chair
assigned to work out a deal n Docs assured low fees,
med colleges in rural areas (kp 31/03/2015), Dr
Govinda
KC’s health ‘critical’ (kp 31/03/2015), Dr.
KC: At The Height Of Talks And Popularity, by Prem
Khatry (rn 31/03/2015), TUTH
resident
docs to boycott all except emergency services (ht
31/03/2015), Dr. KC
And Ailing Medical Sector, by Narayan Upadhyay (rn
01/04/2015), Govt
to
meet Dr KC’s lawful demands: Some concerns
‘impractical’ (ht 01/04/2015), Dr
KC
sticks to his demands, talks fail: Says he will not
call off his fast-unto-death unless govt addresses his
concerns (ht 01/04/2015), CIAA
Chief
Karki refutes charges (ht 01/04/2015)
UC
Merced,
KU sign MoU (ht 28/02/2015)
TU
exam
postponed owing to ‘negligence’ (kp 21/02/2015)
Not
about
numbers: Govt must endorse Higher Education bill
before establishing new universities (kp
13/02/2015)
Mind
the
gap: The course and curriculum of IT colleges are old
and not up to the market needs, by Sudan Jha (rep
10/02/2015)
There’re
few
takers for master’s course at TU central campus
(ht 07/02/2015)
Students
hit
hard by TU’s sluggish work, by Gaurav Thapa (kp
06/02/2015)
IoM
instructs
Janaki Medical Colleges to resume classes (kp
05/02/2015), IoM
threatens
to cancel JMC affiliation Begin classes pronto,
college told, by Kritagya Regmi (ht 05/02/2015)
TU
to
shift MBBS programme regardless of IoM disapproval
(kp 30/01/2015)
Distance
learning
a far cry until Bill on Open University passed pronto
(ht 29/01/2015)
TU
colleges
call admission under annual system (kp
26/01/2015), TU
reverts
to old annual system: Opens master's admission (ht
27/01/2015)
Limited
semester
plan upsets private colleges (kp 25/01/2015)
TU
to
open admission forms on January 26 (ht 23/01/2015)
TU
treads
middle path: Set to endorse semester in only 3
faculties, by Binod Ghimire (kp 20/01/2015), It’s
back
to square one, no semester system now Buckling under
students’ protest, TU to open admission forms under
annual format from Jan 23 (ht 20/01/2015)
Tough
task
for TU to extend semester plan (kp 07/01/2015), TU
gives
in to unions’ protest: To open admission forms under
annual format from Sunday, by Kokila KC (ht
09/01/2015), Student
unionson
war path: Warn TU against imposing semester system in
campuses (ht 12/01/2015)
Unions’
stir
puts TU in fix, students on horns of dilemma, by
Kokila KC (ht 07/01/2015)
Experts
for
separate body to oversee university activities, by
Nirjana Sharma (rep 03/01/2015)
Students
oppose
semester system in colleges: Say the move will deprive
many of education; Press TU to withdraw the decision
pronto (ht 02/01/2015)
Protest
for
improved semester system (kp 29/12/2014), Student
unions
warn of protest against Tribhuvan University: Say
semester system in Valley colleges not feasible
(ht 31/12/2014)
Property
dispute:
TU leaves new univs in the lurch (kp 28/12/2014)
Students
‘fare
better’ in semester system, by Binod Ghimire (kp
23/12/2014)
Fifteen
TU
student unions demand trained teachers (kp
20/12/2014), Student
unions
submit memo to TU officials (ht 20/12/2014)
TU
plans
convocation at Dasharath stadium (kp 14/12/2014)
MBBS
entrance
questions leaked: Goldengate College director, teacher
caught red-handed, by Manish Gautam and Binod
Ghimire (kp 07/12/2014)
PU
appoints
new office bearears (kp 03/12/2014)
Academicians
question
plan to add two more universities, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 28/11/2014)
‘Ban
politics
in universities’ (ht 24/11/2014)
Institutional
failure:
Except for rare exceptions, universities in Nepal have
largely failed to become vibrant institutions of
higher education, by Pratyoush Onta and Devendra
Uprety (kp 21/11/2014)
Experts
lay
emphasis on starting Open University (ht
19/11/2014), ‘House
will
endorse Billon Open University soon’ (ht
20/11/2014), ‘Distance
learning
not so far from Nepal now’, interview with Anna
Peachey (ht 23/11/2014)
A
case of bad apples: Continuing high-level corruption
at universities threatens to deprive Nepali students
of a decent education, by Bhadra Sharma (kp
18/11/2014)
New
PU
vice-chancellor accused of making unilateral
appointments, by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp
09/11/2014), Appointment
triggers
disturbance at PU (ht 09/11/2014), Pokhara
University
VC joins office (ht 10/11/2014), PU
appointments
kick up dispute (ht 14/11/2014), Teachers
protest
appointments by PU VC, by Keshav Sharan Lamichhane
(rep 14/11/2014), PU
teacher
on fast-unto-death (kp 18/11/2014), PU
officials
resign, prof calls off strike (ht 22/11/2014)
Govt
appoints
VC in two universities (kp 08/11/2014)
Labs
for
change: Investing more in universities and ensuring
academic autonomy are crucial for Nepal’s future,
by Jeevan K. Prasain (kp 06/11/2014)
Admission
delay
irks MBBS scholarship awardees: Students warn of
launching stern protest if process not started at the
earliest (ht 06/11/2014)
TU
to
introduce semester system for master’s level (kp
06/11/2014), TU
colleges
in Valley brace for semester system (rep
06/11/2014)
Govt
mulling
to dissolve NMC, by Manish Gautam (kp
05/11/2014)
Pokhara
University
hit by corruption scandal (kp 02/11/2014), PU
in
shambles after CIAA booked its top officials (ht
02/11/2014), Shameful,
says
ex-FNCCI chair (ht 03/10/2014), Work
at
Pokhara University hit after officials’ arrest (ht
04/11/2014), With
graft
exposed, students quit Purbanchal, Mid-Western
varsities, by Nirjana Sharma (rep 04/11/2014), New
VC
for Pokhara University soon (ht 06/11/2014), PM
to
talk to CIAA today regarding irregularities in PU
(ht 06/11/2014), Pokhara
varsity
officials freed on general date (ht 12/11/2014), CIAA
to
challenge Special Court's order to release 24 PU
officials, by Santosh Ghimire (rep 17/11/2014)
TU
plans
more medical facilities for students, staff (ht
01/11/2014)
PU
appointment
draws criticism, by Binod Bhandari (kp 31/10/2014)
CIAA
detains
23 PU officials including VC Bhattarai (ht
27/10/2014),
CIAA
arrests
PU VC, 22 others, by Bharat Koirala (ht
28/10/2014), CIAA
detains
VC of PU, ex-VC, 21 others: PU said to be into
corruption since very beginning, by Keshav Sharan
Lamichhane (rep 28/10/2014)
TU
asks
IoM to shift its undergrad programme (kp
12/10/2014)
Call
for
separate public varsity (ht 12/10/2014)
TU
professors,
staff found playing truant (ht 10/10/2014)
TU
constituent
colleges: Student enrolment lowest in eight years,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 30/09/2014)
Varsities
12
but TU still holds 90 pc students (kp 28/09/2014)
PU
officials
get jobs back, stir called off (ht 26/09/2014)
Contract
lecturers,
Employees padlock PU (kp 22/09/2014)
Admissions
in
medical schools in state of limbo (ht 21/09/2014)
PM
inaugurates
science musuem (kp 18/09/2014)
SC
clears
affiliation hurdle for NMC (kp 18/09/2014)
TU
has
water storage for emergency use (kp 11/09/2014)
Janaki
Medical
College loses MBBS seats, by Manish Gautam (kp
10/09/2014), IoM
fixes
760 MBBS seats for TU colleges (ht 10/09/2014)
TU
loses
200,000 students in a year (kp 10/09/2014)
IoM
asked
to furnish detail ‘autonomy plan’, by Manish
Gautam (kp 08/09/2014)
Entrance
tests
will be mandatory: TU (kp 08/09/2014)
Newly-appointed
chancellors
administered oath of office (ht 08/09/2014)
Affiliate
medical
colleges charging higher fees than KU itself, by
Madhusudan Guragain (rep 07/09/2014)
VCs
express
dissatisfaction over CIAA raids (kp 04/09/2014), Koirala
warns
ofthrowing the book at corrupt academicians (ht
04/09/2014)
TU
directs
IoE to suspend admission process (kp 04/09/2014)
TU
told
to let MMIHS run MBBS courses, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 29/08/2014)
IoE
courts
controversy for reviewing entrance exam results,
by Nirjana Sharma (rep 27/08/2014)
CIAA
raids
13 TU departments: HSEB and CTEVT also under
investigation for corruption; Two truckloads of
documents confiscated, by Bhadra Sharma and Binod
Ghimire (kp 25/08/2014)
Mid-western
varsity
VC, registrar arrested (ht 25/08/2014), Corruption
case
filed against MWU officials (ht 26/08/2014)
SC
order
to ban FSU activities in TU colleges (kp
25/08/2014), SC
bars
FSU activities in previous capacity (ht
25/08/2014), SC
orders
TU FSUs to stop functioning (rep 25/08/2014)
KU
professors
withdraw protest (kp 24/08/2014), KUPA
warns
of stir if varsity deceives (ht 25/08/2014)
KU,
NMC
deny Nobel admission call, by Manish Gautam and
Binod Ghimire (kp 17/08/2014)
KU
teachers
to halt classes from Monday (rep 17/08/2014)
TU
to
hold Convocation Day in December (ht 16/08/2014), 53,000
graduates
to attend TU convocation in January (rep 18/08/2014)
Highlights
of
KUSL’s Launching Ceremony, by Bidushi Adhikari (sp
15/08/2014)
Universities
And
CIAA: Developing An Unholy Alliance, by Prem Khatry
(rn 12/08/2014), Varsities
engage
in corruption in absence of strong oversight: Experts,
by Nirjana Sharma (rep 14/08/2014)
KUPA
warns
it will seek KU officials’ resignation (ht
11/08/2014)
Former
PU
officials face graft charge (kp 08/08/2014)
CIAA
wants
MWU VC, three officials suspended, by Bhadra
Sharma (kp 07/08/2014), Pandey
appointed
acting VC of MWU (kp 09/08/2014), At
the
crossroads: Crisis ate the Mid Western University does
not augur well for other regional varsities, by
Nirjana Sharma (rep 16/08/2014)
Pokhara
University
under CIAA scanner (ht 07/08/2014)
Agitating
professsors
warn of stern protests (kp 31/07/2014)
Two
varsities
operating from same institute (ht 30/07/2014)
Panel
okays
separate medical varsity plan (kp 23/07/2014)
SAsian
varsity
receives 4,600 apps for 250 seats (kp 17/07/2014),
Hint
of
hope: The South Asian University is a noble step
towards regional consciousness (kp 18/07/2014)
Umbrella
Act
forall universities being worked out (ht
07/07/2014)
PU’s
ANNISU-R
members resort to vandalism (ht 06/07/2014)
Building
A
Better TU For Quality Education, by Jeevan K.
Prasain (rn 01/07/2014)
Is
History
in decline in academia?, by Weena Pun (kp
17/06/2014)
Panel
recommends
ways to regulate medical education, by Rajan Pokhrel
(ht 15/06/2014)
NRNA,
MoE
sign MoU for open university (ht 12/06/2014)
Nat’l
accreditation
body proposed for MBBS, BDS tests (kp 10/06/2014)
Scores
injured
asstudents clashwith police (ht 10/06/2014)
Student
unions’
ultimatum to Institute of Medicine: They have demanded
inclusive and proportionate principle in admission
(ht 09/06/2014)
Panel
likely
to recommend against med university, by Manish
Gautam (kp 05/06/2014)
Purbanchal
VC,
honchos in CIAA charge sheet (kp 02/06/2014)
Death
of
a teacher: The semester system at Tribhuvan University
helps students claim agency over their writing and
knowledge, by Shuv Raj Rana Bhat (kp 01/06/2014)
Student
protests
halt TU’s hiring process (ht 31/05/2014)
Politics
ruins
TU campuses, by Mukti Rijal (rn 22/05/2014)
Students
stare
at bleak future due to govt apathy, by Weena Pun
(kp 15/05/2014)
University
Village
opened (ht 04/05/2014)
Thesis
Writing,
An Institutionalised Business, by Dikendra Kunwar
(rn 01/05/2014)
An
Australian
education, by Grace Dobell (kp 21/04/2014)
Mired
in
corruption, PU left without top officials, by
Bhadra Sharma (kp 10/04/2014), Fall
from
grace: Corruption at PU should prompt a reassessment
of higher education (kp 11/04/2014), Political
meddling
mars dream for better higher education, by Nirjana
Sharma (rep 13/04/2014), Golden
opportunity:
Cleaning up our universities (rep 13/04/2014), PU
comes
to complete halt, by Bhim Ghimire (kp 14/04/2014)
TU
books
104 for moonlighting (kp 30/03/2014)
TU
teachers
to continue strike till April 4 (ht 30/03/2014), TU
professors
warn of tougher protests (rep 31/03/2014), TU
teachers
call off relay hunger strike (ht 17/04/2014)
TU
relents,
teachers to end hunger strike (ht 24/03/2014)
On
The
Semester System, by Gyan Basnet and Shailendra K.
Shrestha (rn 21/03/2014)
TU
colleges
remain shut, scores affected (kp 13/03/2014), TUTA
warns
of non-cooperation protest (kp 14/03/2014)
TU
professors
threaten to launch relay hunger strike (ht
09/03/2014)
NSU
submits
memo to education minister seeking student polls
(ht 07/03/2014)
Semester
system
in Tribhuvan University: Entrance tests go despite
protests (kp 03/03/2014), Student
unions
to allow TU operate semester system (kp
06/03/2014), TU
authority
presses ahead with semester system despite protests,
by Nirjana Sharma (rep 08/03/2014), A
decent education: The semester system, though not a
cure for the ills of higher education, can help
(kp 12/03/2014)
TU
professors
announce fresh protests (ht 03/03/2014)
Student
body
warns PU of stern protest (ht 25/02/2014)
SC
upholds
Dr Srivastav’s appointment as IoM dean (kp
24/02/2014), SC
refuses
to stay IoM dean's appointment (ht 24/02/2014)
12
student
unions to act against TU semester plan: Unions close
to CPN-M and Madhesi parties agitating at TU colleges
set to start the semester system (kp 24/02/2014),
Student
unions
vandalise TU departments (kp 25/02/2014)
Make
it
easy: The lack of private universities is robbing
millions of adolescents of a bright future, by
Anand Jha (rep 23/02/2014)
Riders
for
launch of semester system in TU (ht 17/02/2014)
MWU
starts
engineering classes (kp 17/02/2014)
FWU
officials
resign en masse, by Chitrang Thapa (kp
13/02/2014), Far-west
varsity
VC quits (ht 13/02/2014), Far
Western
University officials resign en-masse (rep
13/02/2014)
Dr
Govinda
KC resumes hunger strike (nn 08/02/2014), Dr
KC
resumes hunger strike, by Binod Ghimire (kp
09/02/2014),
Dr
KC
on hunger strike, says patience has limit: Committee
fails to recommend new dean at Institute of Medicine;
Panel member resigns after dispute over criteria for
appointment (ht 09/02/2014), Dr
KC
back on strike, by Arjun Poudel (rep 09/02/2014),
Dr
Koirala
quits as TUTH director (kp 09/02/2014), TUTH
director
Koirala’s resignation accepted (ht 09/02/2014), Install
dean
by today or face action, Regmi tells TU brass, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 10/02/2014), The
long
haul: Total overhaul of the health sector is at the
heart of Dr KC’s protest (kp 10/02/2014), Acting
TUTH
director barred from office (ht 10/02/2014), Docs
quit
en masse, halt OPD services (kp 11/02/2014), IoM
faculty
docs to quit today: TUTH residents stop providing all
but emergency services (ht 11/02/2014), Doctors
to
tender mass resignation to Koirala today, by Arjun
Poudel (rep 11/02/2014), Install
IoM
dean in 24 hours: PM, by Binod Ghimire (kp
12/02/2014), Dr
Srivastav
new dean: Dr Srivastav new dea Outpatient services at
TU Teaching Hospital likely to resume today, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 13/02/2014), TU
exec
council appoints IoM dean: Revokes acting director
Shrestha’s appointment (ht 13/02/2014), RP
Srivastav
new dean at IoM: Dr KC not to end hunger strike until
the government sacks TU office bearers (rep
13/02/2014), TU
officials
refuse to budge despite ongoing protests (kp
14/02/2014), Explore
possibility
of autonomous IoM: PM (ht 14/02/2014), TU
VC
Maharjan says action could be taken against Dr KC
(nn 14/02/2014) [???],
Carrying
the
country’s conscience: Dr Govinda KC has taken the
first step, now we need to get behind him, by
Chaitanya Mishra (nt 14/02/2014),
Govt
agrees
to address fasting doc’s demands: Dr KC likely to end
strike todays, by Binod Ghimire (kp 15/02/2014), Dr
KC
likely to end fast today: Govt pledges to address his
demand to sack TU officials (ht 15/02/2014), Dr
KC
breaks fast after govt commits to meet demands (kp
16/02/2014), Dr
KC
ends fast-unto-death (ht 16/02/2014)
Internship
row:
Foreign-school MBBS graduates besiege NMC, by
Manish Gautam (kp 05/02/2014), China-educated
MBBS
grads stage demo for internship (ht 05/02/2014)
Strong
medicine:
TU authorities must immediately appoint a new dean to
the IoM (kp 04/02/2014), TU
giving
silent treatment to Dr KC: Appointment of new dean at
IoM unlikely even today (ht 04/02/2014), Delay
in
dean appointment concerns NMA (kp 05/02/2014), Dubious
delay:
IOM dean appointment (rep 05/02/2014), TUTH
docs
warn over dean apptt: Dr KC threatens to resume
fast if no dean by Friday evening (kp 07/02/2014),
DR
KC
to resume hunger strike: To wait if university
appoints a new dean at IoM before noon on Saturday
(kp 08/02/2014), Dr
KC
to resume hunger strike (rep 08/02/2014)
Why
the
haste? Reverting to a failed system without proper
analysis of past failure is likely to backfire, by
Vikash Raj Satyal (kp 03/02/2014), TU
panel
to resolve semester system row (ht 06/02/2014), Conditional
support
to TU master semesters (kp 07/02/2014), Semester
system
gets nod (rep 11/02/2014)
Dr
KC
warns of a return to strike (kp 03/02/2014), Dr
KC
warns of fresh hunger strike (ht 05/02/2014)
Medical
internship
in Nepal: Students in limbo, by Rabindra Dahal (ht
03/02/2014)
Govt
fiat
to address Dr KC’s demands (ht 30/01/2014)
University
of
Medical Sciences: Urgent need, by Mana Prasad
Wagley (ht 28/01/2014)
A
dark chapter: Dr Govinda KC has prevailed for now but
make no mistake: the ‘medical mafia’ will mount a
strong pushback, by Akhilesh Upadhyay (kp
27/01/2014), Medical
education
needs to be accountable to society, interview with
Sharad Onta (kp 27/01/2014)
Semester
system
in TU: Promise or peril?, by Tirth Raj Khaniya (ht
27/01/2014)
TU
teachers
give fresh three-day ultimatum (ht 25/01/2014)
A
decade after its formation, Rolpa college still lacks
building, by Hira Bahadur Gharti Magar (rep
25/01/2014)
ANNFSU-R
padlocks
campus chiefs’ offices (ht 24/01/2014)
PU
staffers
reject communication and fuel allowances (rep
23/01/2014)
Nepal
Sanskrit
University: Taking Big Leaps Forward, by Prem
Khatry (rn 21/01/2014)
Continuing
progress:
While the semester system is a good idea, TU must also
adopt continuous assessment instead of exams every six
months, by Amrit B. Thapa (kp 19/01/2014)
Ex-Dean
Dr
Sayami tells all the tale, by Manish Gautam (kp
17/01/2014)
Semester
system
premature for now, say experts, by Nirjana Sharma
(rep 15/01/2014)
Same
old
story: The tradition of political appointments to TUTH
and IoM must stop (kp 14/01/2014), Root
of
the problem (ht 17/01/2014), Undue
intrusion:
The IoM crisis is a result of unnecessary political
interference in the medical field (kp 20/01/2014),
Doctors’
orders:
There is a long and sordid story of corruption and
greed in the health sector that is behind Govinda KC’s
hunger strike, by Santa Gaha Magar (nt
24/01/2014), Act
on
it now: Govt-Govinda KC deal (rep 25/01/2014)
Janaki
Medical
College barred from admitting students for new
session: NMC decision puts future of 500 MBBS students
studying there at stake; 26 freshers already enrolled
to be refunded, by Rajan Pokhrel (ht 11/01/2014)
Dr
Sashi
Sharma is the new IoM dean: Dr Govinda KC threatens
hunger strike ‘to save IoM’, by Manish Gautam (kp
10/01/2014), Dr
KC
to start hunger strike against IOM appointment (ht
11/01/2014), Not
again!
Political meddling in IOM (rep 11/01/2014), TUTH
doctor’s
fast-unto-death against IoM dean appointment, by
Manish Gautam (kp 12/01/2014), Dr
KC
on fast-unto-death against dean appointment (rep
12/01/2014), Fast
for
a cause: Dr KC’s health worsens, put on drip, by
Manish Gautam (kp 14/01/2014), Doctors
to
halt services at TUTH’s OPD, by Kritagya Regmi (ht
14/01/2014), Medics
say
ailing Dr KC needs intensive care, by Manish
Gautam (kp 15/01/2014), Appeal
to
address Dr Govinda KC’s demands (ht 15/01/2014), IoM
not
to grant new affiliations this year: Dr KC's condition
worsens, by Arjun Poudel (rep 15/01/2014), IoM
medics
threaten to stop work, by Manish Gautam (kp
16/01/2014), Doctors
ask
IOM dean to quit (ht 16/01/2014), Govt
mulls
task force to address Dr KC's demands (rep
16/01/2014), Six-member
task
force to address Dr KC’s demands (kp 17/01/2014),
NHRC
urges
govt to save Dr KC’s life (ht 17/01/2014), Docs
halt
services at TUTH, patients suffer: Continue to pile
pressure on govt to address the demands of Dr KC who
is on fast-unto-death, by Kritagya Regmi (ht
17/01/2014), Making
a
complete mess, by Trishna Rana (nt 17/01/2014), NMA
threatens
hospital shutdown from Sunday, by Manish Gautam
(kp 18/01/2014), Doctors
threaten
nationwide strike (ht 18/01/2014), SC
stay
sought against shutdown of health services (ht
18/01/2014), NMA
threatens
to shut hospitals across country: Calls all doctors to
capital, by Arjun Poudel (rep 18/01/2014), Govt
fails
to stop hospital closure, by Manish Gautam (kp
19/01/2014), Hospital
closure
hits thousands: 400 hospitals shut across country; IoM
Dean Dr Sharma refuses to quit; NMA moots scaling up
stir, by Manish Gautam (kp 20/01/2014), Review
IoM
dean’s appointment, TU told: Our duty to save Dr
KC,education minister tells Tribhuvan University VC,
by Kritagya Regmi (ht 20/01/2014), Talks
on
dean appointment row inconclusive, by Arjun Poudel
(rep 20/01/2014), Police
break
up medical doctors' rally in support of Dr KC (nn
20/01/2014), Dr
KC's
health situation heading towards critical stage:
Doctors (nn 20/01/2014), ‘Regmi
can
amend law to sack dean’ (kp 21/01/2014), Frail
Dr
KC stands firm on his demands: Turns down TU VC’s
request to end his fast-unto-death, by Kritagya
Regmi (ht 21/01/2014), Teaching
Hospital
doctors resign en-masse (nn 21/01/2014), Regmi
fails
to end Dr KC’s fast, by Manish Gautam (kp
22/01/2014), Make
dean
appointment ‘ineffective’ (kp 22/01/2014), Better
late
than never: Regmi's directive revoking Sharma's
appointment as IoM dean is welcome (kp
22/01/2014), Chitwan
doc
on silent fast in support of Dr KC, by Bimal
Khatiwada (kp 22/01/2014), Dr
KC
vows to continue hunger strike: Refuses govt request
to end fast, says demands not met yet, by Kritagya
Regmi (ht 22/01/2013), TU
sacks
Dean Sharma: Decision just a ploy to calm down
protesters, say university officials, by Manish
Gautam and Binod Ghimire (kp 23/01/2014), TU
executive
council gives Dr Sharma the boot: Everyone left
waiting for the other shoe to drop, by Kritagya
Regmi (ht 23/01/2014), TU
executive
council expels Dean Sharma: Dr KC to end fast only
after all demands are met, by Arjun Poudel (rep
23/01/2014), Govt
agrees
to meet doc’s major demands: Dr KC likely to end his
fast today, by Manish Gautam (kp 24/01/2014), Dr
Govinda
KC finally breaks 14-day long hunger strike; hospitals
across country resume service (nn 24/01/2014), Dr
Govinda
KC ends his death fast: Expresses hope the hard-won
victory will not go waste; Nepal Medical Association
calls off its strike, by Manish Gautam (kp
25/01/2014), Dr
KC
ends fast, govt gives in to demands: Reforms pledged
in health sector; Doctors call off nationwide strike,
by Kritagya Regmi (ht 25/01/2014), Dr
KC
ends 14-day fast, says sorry to patients, by Arjun
Poudel (rep 25/01/2014), Patients'
suffering
compelled me to cut short hunger strike, by
Govinda KC (rep 27/01/2014)
Forestry
campus
closure continues (ht 07/01/2014), Stir
at
Forestry Campus intensifies (ht 08/01/2014)
Disputes
settled,
say PU officials (kp 05/01/2014)
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