Education System of Nepal

Education in Nepal from the elementary school to the university level has been demonstrated from the very initiation on the Indian framework, which is thus the legacy of the old British Rule. Nepal has been following three tier seventeen year education system, allocating ten years to school education, two years to intermediate, 3 years to bachelors and remaining 2 years to masters.

The current education system of Nepal, which is as listed below:

1. Pre-School Education
2. School Education
3. Higher Education

1. Pre-School Education;

Pre –School education is being undertaken in different names like Montessori, kindergarten etc. Whatever the name be, these pre-school familiarize the students with alphabets and prepare them for school education. Pre-school education is broadly divided as Nursery, lower kindergarten (LKG), and upper kindergarten (UKG). This pre-school education is not a formal and compulsory education in Nepalese education system.

2. School Education:

Formal education starts from the school education which officially spans a period of 12 years. The classes starts from class one to class twelve. But there is misconception in Nepalese society that school education ends at grade ten after SLC exam, which is not true. Only students passing class 12 exam are awarded with formal certificate of completion of school education. The core subjects taught in school education are Nepali, English, Math’s, Social Studies, Science and few extra subject that makes students informed about various aspects of life.

3. Higher education:

In Nepalese education system, higher education constitute of Bachelor’s degree or undergraduate, Masters or graduate degree, M. Phil or postgraduate degree and Ph.D. or doctoral degree. A student can choose among different field of study like social sciences, management, education, health and medicine, agriculture, law, science and technology, engineering etc.  As per their interest.

Nepali students have been facing comparative disadvantage in their academic and professional career advancement not to mention in the regional or international fields even in their home country. In this manner, with a specific end goal to make the Nepali education framework more competitive and compatible, approach and structural changes were made and step by step actualized.   Hope soon we can see the concert changes in education system of Nepal

New Grading System in SLC Exam

Beginning from the academic session of 2072 BS, Government of Nepal is all set to introduce new grading system in the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination. This new, extensive, scientific and international standard grading system will replace old grading system based on the “PASS” or “FAIL” category of SLC examinees.

After long discussion with the stakeholders, Government of Nepal decided that no students should be categorized as failed in SLC examination. According to the new grading system, all the SLC examinees from academic session 2072 BS will be graded according to their performance in exam under six categories as mentioned below:

A+:

 This “A+” grade will be awarded to that outstanding student who achieves more than 90 % of marks in the SLC exam. Their result will be rated as “DISTINCTION”.

A: 

This “A” grade will be awarded to those students who are able to get the marks between 80 % to 89 % in the SLC examination. This “A” grade result will be rated as “EXCELLENT”.

B: 

This “B” grade will be given to those students achieving marks between 60 % to 79% in the SLC examination. This grade is equal to First Division as per old grading system. This “B” grade result will be rated as “VERY GOOD”.

C: 

This “C” grade will be awarded to those students securing marks between 40% to 59% in SLC examination. This “C” grade result will be rated as “GOOD”.

D: 

This “D” grade result will be awarded to those students whose marks range between 25% to 39 % in SLC examination. This “D” grade result will be rated as “WEAK”.

E: 

This “E” grade result will be awarded to the students whose marks range below 25% in the SLC examination. This “E” grade result will be rated as “VERY WEAK”.

This new SLC examination grading system is being implemented hoping to achieve some positive improvement in the pass percentage. This new grading system is also expected to motivate poor performing students through ending their fear of becoming fail in the SLC examination.

Nepal can become education hub

Nepal is a beautiful country sandwiched between two world growing economy India and China in south Asian region. Nepal is naturally very beautiful. Nepal has been attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists every year.

Besides tourism, education sector can also attract many students from around the world especially from the south Asian region.  Nepal has the great potential to become an education hub for south Asia. But unfortunately, Instead of attracting students here, many Nepali students are travelling abroad to get the quality education to prepare themselves to compete in this tough competitive world of 21^st century.

All the stakeholders of education sector are aware about the immense potential of Nepal to develop itself as one of the popular “education hub” in south Asia. Many stakeholders are blaming on the education policies adopted by the government on developing Nepal as the education hub of entire south Asian region.

Now the time has come to think seriously by all stakeholders’ students, government, and parents, national and international organization working on education sector and to draft a concert plans and solid implementation of those plans to develop our country Nepal as the popular education hub of entire south Asian region.