The Congress, the ruling party and the largest party in the Parliament, has started the work of making education policy based on the suggestions of experts. According to the decision of the Central Committee, Nainsingh Mahar, the head of the Congress Education Department and a member of the Central Committee, informed that for the first time the education policy is going to be made.
He said that he will reach all 165 constituencies across the country to collect suggestions for policy making. Although the political parties have expressed their political commitment regarding education in the election manifesto, none of the parties have put forward a separate education policy.
Mahar said that education policy will be made to help the country. "Every time the Prime Minister and Minister of Education comes, a different education policy is adopted," he said. The department said that after the Congress releases the policy within the next 18 months, the department will provide support even during the administration of the government. Harisingh KC, a member of the department, said that the policy will be issued after it is submitted to the central committee and passed.
In the year 2076, the then Education Minister Girirajmani Pokharel issued the National Education Policy. According to the report of the high-level education commission formed in 2075, the political parties do not seem to be in agreement despite the release of the education policy. The report of the commission was not made public by then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and then Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. Although Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal released the report on the request of Education Minister Sumana Shrestha last Baisakh, it has not been implemented.
School Education Bill of the House of Representatives Education and Health Although it is under discussion in the committee, it has not been able to move forward due to a dispute between political parties and MPs on some basic issues. Disagreements are seen regarding the implementation of compulsory and free education, private management, community school teacher management, secondary education and local level jurisdiction. Although the Act on Higher and Technical Education will be issued from 2072, its bill has not even been registered in the Parliament.
When there is uncertainty in the education sector, the Congress has shown priority in making policy by taking suggestions from experts . The department has started discussions to collect suggestions on early childhood development, schools, technology, higher education and investment. In the discussion, educationists and other stakeholders pointed out that the state does not have a clear policy on education, the government is neglecting it, there is a lack of political commitment, there is a lack of investment due to the failure to allocate 20 percent of the budget as per the commitment, and there is a lack of education-related laws. Head of the
department Mahar said that in the first step to prepare the policy, they are going to discuss with the experts and prepare the blueprint. "After the draft is made, we will try to reach the ward level to collect the suggestions of the education policy. We will also reach the people's representatives at the state and local level," he said, "even if it is called the education policy of the Congress, we will make it comprehensive and contemporary." Ward, local level, constituency, After receiving suggestions from the district and state, the department said that it will be discussed with national level parties, former education ministers, Congress officials, educationists and policy makers to finalize it.
There seems to be a lack of all-party consensus on how long the early childhood development will be, under whose authority the federal, provincial and local governments will be kept, and how to manage teachers. In school education, the issue of how to operate a company, Guthi or cooperative in a private school, how to manage teachers working in public schools, has become complicated during the construction of the Education Act and has not been resolved. The right to secondary education, which is provided in the constitution, has not been implemented at the local level, compulsory up to class 8 and free up to 12.
There is a problem of uniformity in technical education . About a dozen ministries have been conducting programs related to technical education. Even though it was said to create an umbrella law for that, it has not been able to proceed .
According to the number of seats in technical education, the enrollment of students has started to decrease, while the attraction of students has been seen in foreign studies . Educationists say that it is challenging to prevent it. In higher education, university operation modality, its number, appointment of officers, restructuring of higher education, competitive quality education in the world market and other issues are yet to be determined.
