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Shyam Sharma and Surendra Subedi

Shyam Sharma is Associate Professor at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. Surendra Subedi is Principal of Kathmandu Model College
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Advancing research for social impact

Published On: June 3, 2020 05:00 PM NPT By: Shyam Sharma and Surendra Subedi

At the end of an intensive two-day training on semester-based teaching organized by Tribhuvan University in Nagarkot last May, we asked the seventy or so university faculty members from around the country to pick between two groups. One group was asked to  strategize how to institutionalize the teaching excellence training, building on a few years of work done mainly online by a grassroots initiative. The other group would discuss a new topic: how to pursue and promote research and publication in the university. To our pleasant surprise, over two-thirds of the participants went to the research group. We had to come up with a quick way to better regroup the scholars.

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