There is something that holds today´s children apart from the previous generation. At the click of a switch, they have access to a mind-boggling array of programmes on the
Afghanistan´s child mortality rate is second from the bottom, only Sierra Leone´s is worse. A Nepali woman is more likely to die at childbirth than a woman in
Nepalis romanticize 'America' because they have been bombarded with overglorified images. It is a feeling that is hard to shake off even when living a B-grade lifestyle in
Those parts of education, it is to be observed, for the teaching of which there are no public institutions, are generally the best taught.
-Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations.
When the United Nations Decade for Women ended in 1985, there was unspoken relief among many people that the "women in development thing" was finally over and life
Dozens of interviews with students, lecturers, and top administrators of Nepal's government-run Tribhuvan University have revealed that Nepal's higher education system is in a tailspin. The