Title: Reforming higher secondary education in South Asia : the case of Nepal
Abstract: After ten years of primary and secondary education, Nepali students spend four years at the university. Bachelors degrees are granted after 14 years of total study. To follow international trends and limit university enrollments, the Government plans to create grades 11 and 12 in secondary schools. Experience in other South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries indicate that development of higher secondary education cannot take place without considerable planning and close cooperation with university authorities. Nepal could profit from these experiences before and during implementation by: a) explaining to the public, including local governments and students, the reasons for changing the system; b) developing core curricula for grades 11 and 12 that will facilitate students' future professional choices; c) ascertaining that adequate physical facilities and numbers of trained teachers exist throughout the country to teach higher secondary school; d) providing dignified and sensitive options to university professors to facilitate redeployment; e) preparing administrators to manage larger schools with more complex problems and older students; and f) resolving early any financial or status-related problems of two-year university campuses.
Publication Year: 1993
Publication Date: 1993-05-31
Language: en
Type: article
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