Higher Education in Nepal: Policies, Programs, and Perspectives

• In Event: Roundtable Session (Wednesday V)
  In Refereed Round-Table Session: Educational developments in Nepal: achievements, challenges and opportunities

Proposal

This paper presents Nepalese higher education with critical perspectives on topics related to the impacts of local sociopolitical changes and global forces on public and private education, emerging online and distance education, administrative and intellectual leadership, quality assessment, graduate employability, global mobility of students, and the causes and impacts of global diaspora of Nepalese scholars. The central questions of the presentation are: What issues and perspectives can research and scholarship about Nepal’s higher education offer to international discourse in higher education? What are some of the local and global academic interactions in Nepalese higher education and what are the current challenges and pathways for advancements and improvements? How can scholars interested in Nepalese, South-Asian, and international higher education create opportunities for scholarship and professional collaboration around research on higher education in this region of South Asia?

Author

• Krishna Bista, Morgan State University