KATHMANDU, April 12: Member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom (UK), Stewart Wood, said he would put efforts to increase UK development aid for the social transformation in Nepal.

In his seminal book “Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” the famous Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire states that education should be a means to "the practice of freedom”, suggesting that those engaged in education—both educators and students—should find critical and creative ways to participate in the process of transformation of their society. Although published more than 50 years ago, Freire’s ideas on the role of education and educators are equally relevant at present.

CHITWAN, July 17: State 3 chief minister Dormani Poudel has insisted that collaboration among the three-tier government was required for the development.