The event, organized by Institute of Policy Research & Development-Nepal (IPRD), focused on the prospects and challenges of higher education policy in Nepal and worked with past experiences of Poland and India on the same perspectives.[break]
International speakers from Poland and India had attended the event and gave their insight into the field of educational policy making with regard to their own countries.
Distinguished speakers, such as Prof. Dr Ganesh Man Gurung, Chairman of the University Grant Commission, Nepal; Prof. Khagendra Bhattarai, Vice Chancellor of Pokhara University; Prof. Wlodzimierz Lengauer, Vice Chancellor of University of Warsaw; Prof. Boguslaw Zaleski, Ex. Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland; Prof. Rajendra Kumar Jain, Jean Monnet Chair at School on International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU); and Prof. Alok Saklani, Director of Apeejay School of Management spoke at the event.
After many discussions and commentaries, the event moved to a floor discussion.
“This is a very nice event and an important one at that,” says Babu Ram Neupane, Manager-Country Programs at Aide et Action, a French international development organization working in the field of education, adding, “We need discussions like these to bring new policies to light and modify older ones. I just want to see more youth involved in events like these because I think they have been marginalized. It’s the youth that are capable in making change in the end.”
The organizers plan on sending a draft of the discussion to the Ministry of Education and the Prime Minister to help them understand the perspectives of the educators and hope that the draft will help shape Nepal’s future educational policies and move older ones to modification.
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