KATHMANDU, Nov 24: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has opined that higher education in Nepal is challenging.
Addressing a conference of university vice-chancellors on 'Uniformity in the Standard of Higher Education and Internationalization' organized in Dhulikhel, Kavrepalanchok, today, he said attention should be paid to the development of physical and digital infrastructures required for providing higher education.
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"On the one hand, there is a need for making huge investments required for physical and digital infrastructures, skilled human resources and creating employment opportunities for providing quality technical and vocational higher education, and the state has not been able to make adequate investments for the same, while on the other hand, there is the tendency of capable youths, who have been readied for entering university education after completing higher education with the nation's investment, going abroad, leaving the country," PM Dahal said.
Stating that the lack of adequate number of students enrolling in universities amidst the increasing number of those opening universities has invited a crisis in Nepal, he called upon all the universities fully running on government grants should take this challenge or crisis as an opportunity. According to the Prime Minister, the initiative for bringing the counterparts of all universities at one place is a new initiative for us.
He advised the leadership at the various levels in universities to think and act seriously to enhance the quality of education.
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