University responsible to improve higher education: Education Minister

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KARNALI, APRIL 20Minister for Education, Science and Technology Devendra Poudel has
said university is responsible for improving higher education
Universities should produce competent human resources required for the prosperity of country, he stressed.
Govt to produce
human resources for nutrition-friendly local levels
'Govt responsible for
ensuring right to drinking water' Minister Poudel
said it during the second convocation ceremony of Madhyapaschim University in Surkhet on Tuesday
He shared the information that he was leading the reform in three fronts of education system- legal/policy, teaching and learning, and
physical infrastructures
According to him, a 55-point roadmap was launched for the reform in secondary, higher education and technical and vocational education.
"These three sorts of education would be improved to meet international standard," he said, arguing that entire educational
restructuring was mulled for quality enhancement.Moreover, the Minister informed that drafts of the acts to manage technical education and
institutions, federal education and higher education were also readied by the government
It is time to link education to skill and skill to employment, he viewed.The government, as he said, had initiated process to establish
medical college in each province.In the convocation ceremony, Nobel Laureate and activist against child labour, Kailash Satyarthi argued
education is the major foundation of development.