Neoliberalism, Privatizaton and Education in the Republic of Nepal

Poudyal, Chandra Sharma

doi:10.1007/978-94-6209-458-1_12

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“…In summary, the year 2015 induced aspirations of change in the lives of the Nepali people. Every political regime imposed its visions and policies on the socio-economic lives of people, including in education (Sharma Poudyal, 2013). The political stability in the country, of course, was the reason behind the interventions in the development of the education sector.…”

Section: Decentralising School Governance In Nepal: 1990 To 2019mentioning

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COVID-Pandemic in Nepal: An Opportunity to Institutionalise Local Governance in School Education

Adhikari

Poudyal

Pasa

2023

Research in Education

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The 2015 constitution of Nepal declared Nepal to be a Federal, Democratic, and Republic nation. The constitution has provided local governments the right to manage school education, and the 2017 Local Government Operation Act of Nepal has outlined the roles and responsibilities of local governments in taking guardianship of school education. Since 2017, Nepal has been in the process of institutionalising decentralised governance practices, but this is proceeding at a slow pace. Unprecedently, from early 2020, the COVID-pandemic hit hard the lives of Nepali people, and Nepali education suffered greatly. The pandemic has brought several opportunities for the government to devolve the management system of school education to local levels. This article is based upon the analysis of the six newly introduced plans, regulations, and guidelines in Nepali education, that aim to continue school education amid the COVID-pandemic. These newly introduced polices have significantly acknowledged and mobilised the local strengths in educational management. This research supports a new academic discussion on governance ideas of the Nepalese education system, induced by the COVID- 19 pandemic.

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Section: Decentralising School Governance In Nepal: 1990 To 2019mentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-Pandemic in Nepal: An Opportunity to Institutionalise Local Governance in School Education

Adhikari

Poudyal

Pasa

2023

Research in Education

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“…After 1971 A.D., education was nationalised and the schools came under the responsibility of the government (Ministry of Education, 1971;Poudyal, 2013). This created a distance in the relationship between the schools and communities.…”

Section: School Governance In Nepalmentioning

confidence: 99%

School governance in Nepal: A perspective of new public management theory

Adhikari¹

2022

J. Mgt Devt. Stud.

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School Management Committees have the tasks to maintain good governance of public schools in Nepal. The School Management Committees are driven by the New Public Management theory. The theory advocates for the transformation of public administration into public management which began in Nepal in 1990 A.D. and has continued thereafter. The purpose of this article is to identify the changes in the application of New Public Management theory in school governance through the perspective of power-sharing between communities and local governments. In this study, I have applied the narrative policy review method to gather evidences and enrich the discussion. I have presented some discussion notes to show that the School Management Committee model was practiced with the engagements of parents and communities from 2003 to 2016 A.D. After 2015, the active role of the parents and communities in school governance was shifted to the jurisdiction of local governments, which I have concluded as an alteration in the New Public Management model. I recommend that the core and leading engagement of parents and communities in school governance should be ensured for the good governance of schools in Nepal, in which local governments can act as a watchdog. The study, carried out based on New Public Management theoretical referent, is helpful to scholars to understand the change in the application of New Public Management theory through the perspective of school governance in Nepal.

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‘My life is gone with this job’: effects of precarious working conditions on helmet teachers’ personal and professional lives in neoliberal Nepal

Rana

2022

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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Neoliberalism, Privatizaton and Education in the Republic of Nepal

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

COVID-Pandemic in Nepal: An Opportunity to Institutionalise Local Governance in School Education

COVID-Pandemic in Nepal: An Opportunity to Institutionalise Local Governance in School Education

School governance in Nepal: A perspective of new public management theory

‘My life is gone with this job’: effects of precarious working conditions on helmet teachers’ personal and professional lives in neoliberal Nepal

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