Hitesh Karki

According to UNESCO, around 1.5 billion students are out of school in over 165 countries affected by the pandemic. In China, the government is working at an unprecedented scale and speed with private platform providers to continue classes. At least 260 million students from elementary to high school...

No matter how much we glorify role of ICT in improving education, it cannot happen without larger participation of teachers

In 1986, Alfred Spector, president of Transarc Corporation, co-authored a paper comparing bridge building to software development. One of the key takeaways from his paper is while bridges fail, it catches the national headlines. We saw that happening with our own ‘Pappu Construction.’  In the paper,...

Out of more than 4, 00,000 students appearing for SEE examinations this year, there will be thousands who will be appearing their Computer Science paper. Out of these thousands, there will be a significant sizeable population who will be appearing the subject without having used or even seen compute...

The biggest push to integrate ICT in education in Nepal came in the form of ICT in Education Master Plan 2013-2017.

Pratikhsya is interesting in many ways. She’s a ninth grader and below average student in her class. Class toppers are boring—that’s what she feels. Her below-average performance in the class interestingly is outshined by one stand out subject. Computer Studies. Incidentally, she did not choose the...

Many teachers who are currently teaching computer in public schools grew up in an era when computers were virtually non-existent

Few machines were not taking passwords and teachers seemed to have no clue as what were the actual passwords

Access to internet is getting easier. It seems pretty long now when internet was first made available by Mercantile Office Systems in mid-July of 1995 when it had Nepal connected via NTC to Singapore Telecom.

The reasons for unsuccessful yield of IT in country like ours need to be understood in depth and detail.