Posted by: dumdum September 21, 2004
foreign degree........
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Mahakaal ji, there are multitudes of reasons people go abroad, particularly west, for studies. I am a student at a government college in Nepal and I think I'll be speaking for the majority of my class if I say; Given the chance, nobody wants to study here. Everyone is looking for the remotest of oppertunities to get out of the country and if possible, never return. Why, I ask, should anybody decide to study here? There is either a bandha ( or chakkajam or sabotage ) at least once a week; the other two days the teachers fail to turn up due to their personel assignments; the labs don't have half the equipment we need; and when the teachers finally show up, they make us scribble the age-old notes they carry about, and we are not supposed to ask too many questions-- all first hand experience, mate.Such is the state of the educational system in Nepal. Yes, though the theories of relativity and Maslow's laws are universal, like you point out, it is nigh impossible to understand those intricate concepts when your class is burstling with a 150 students, with the teacher's voice failing to reach our ears very often. And the knowledge and qualifications of 'my' teachers, I regrettably admit, is below par -- to say the least. Our educational system needs a sea-change. I don't know where we are going with the current set-up. Something needs to be done urgently, but again, aren't similar hue and crie raised about virtually every social institution in Nepal, these days?
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