INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
SURKHET, APRIL 20Minister of Education, Science and Technology Devendra Poudel has
said universities are responsible for improving quality of higher education.Universities should produce competent human resources required
for prosperity of the country, he stressed.
Minister Poudel said this during the second convocation ceremony of
Madhyapaschim University in Surkhet yesterday.He shared the information that he was leading the reform campaign on three fronts of the
education system - legal/ policy, teaching and learning, and physical infrastructure.According to him, a 55-point roadmap was launched for
reform in secondary, higher education and technical and vocational education."These three types of education will be improved to meet
international standard," he said, arguing that the ministry was mulling over restructuring the entire education system.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 with skill and skill with employment, he viewed.The government, he said, had
initiated the process of establishing medical college in each province.At the convocation ceremony, Nobel Laureate and activist against
child labour, Kailash Satyarthi said that education was the main foundation for development.A version of this article appears in the print
on April 21, 2022, of The Himalayan Times
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