Nepal's higher education at challenging point: PM Prachanda

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Nov.24: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has said that the higher education of the country has stood at a challenging point.

Addressing the Vice-Chancellor programme on Unification and internalisation in Higher Education Standards, the PM said that the education system of the country should be further improved, textbooks should be contemporized and there should be an upgrade in education.  

According to the PM, the education system has stood at a challenging point. On one side, there is a need for a humungous investment for channeling the physical and digital infrastructure, skilled manpower and employment after education, which is needed to impart quality, technical and entrepreneurial higher education. The investment that the government is making is insufficient to provide that.  

While, on the other hand, the brain drain has become another biggest hurdle in the education system. 

There is a horde of people investing in the education sector by opening universities, but, the problem on a large scale is the lack of sufficient students for the existing infrastructure.