Education Minister Pun has formed a task force under the leadership of University Grants Commission Chairman Devraj Adhikari to prepare the bill.
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The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has initiated the work of drafting a bill to amend the law related to higher education.
Education Minister Mahabir Pun has formed a task force under the leadership of University Grants Commission Chairman Devraj Adhikari to prepare the bill. The task force includes former Vice Chancellor Kedar Bhakta Mathema and other vice chancellors of various universities.
The government had moved forward the integrated bill of the Higher Education Bill in 2080 Poush. The bill has been stopped after the Law Ministry suggested that it be moved forward only after sufficient discussions with stakeholders. The interim government formed after the Gen-G movement is going to move forward the bill again.
Chairman Adhikari said that the bill prepared in 2080 will be revised and refined. He said that the draft of the bill will be prepared after taking suggestions from experts.
Currently, separate universities are run by their own acts. The government, however, has moved forward with the concept of running the universities through the integrated act and they will move forward the rules/regulations on their own. Currently, most universities have a system in which the Prime Minister is the Chancellor and the Education Minister is the Vice Chancellor. The Higher Education Commission 2075 had suggested that the university should be run by a board of trustees, i.e. a group of academics, instead of the Prime Minister being the Chancellor.
The government, on the other hand, had moved a bill in 2080 to make the Prime Minister the Chancellor of Tribhuvan University and the Minister of Education the Chancellor of other central universities. It was proposed that the Chief Minister would be the Chancellor of provincial universities. The bill proposes that recognized universities can be established at the central, provincial and private levels.
The then draft mentions that central universities can also be classified and taken to provinces, and provincial universities can operate campuses only within the province. Similarly, the vice-chancellor will be appointed through open competition, and foreign-affiliated colleges will also be operated by the University Grants Commission under the same act.
The Secretariat of the Minister of Education Pun stated that discussions are ongoing on registering a bill in the National Assembly after receiving the draft of the bill or changing the law related to higher education through an ordinance.
