Friday 22 August 2014
EDUCATION OF NEPAL POOR REGION
Education
“I’d been busy with household chores and never had the opportunity to go to the place called ‘school’. PHASE Nepal started to run a literacy class in our village. I joined the class and I’m proud to say that I can now speak the Nepali language and I’m in class 3 in Nubri Primary School.”
Tshering Youten (13 years), Prok village, North Gorkha
OUR WORK
We improve literacy and numeracy, giving children and adults more opportunity and choice. Adult literacy rates are very low in remote regions of Nepal. Being able to read makes a huge difference to quality of life.
Our education work includes:
- Teacher training
- Literacy classes for women
- Alternative schools for children who can't access mainstream school
- Supporting governmental schools with teaching materials, buildings, water supplies and toilets.
- Salaries for extra teachers
- Early childhood development programmes
TEACHER TRAINING : NTTI
At PHASE we believe that effective teacher training is the key to education development, that's why we have a special department devoted to training high quality training - learn more by WWW.NEPALITTI.ORG
THE ISSUES
In many of the villages PHASE works in there has been no effective education service for several years. Our data shows on average primary school completion rates are under 30% for boys and under 20% for girls. In some area there are no functioning schools and literacy rates are closer to 0%. Communities are unaware of their right to education, or even the benefits of basic literacy, so are not strong advocates for reactivating or strengthening the education system.
Illiterate young people have fewer opportunities to earn a living. Males often work as labourers or porters, and women and girls may go to Kathmandu’s factories or look after the family home. Having an education, or at least being literate, provides options - being able to read, write and do basic maths makes a huge difference to people’s lives.
There are many factors affecting education delivery in remote areas:
- Distances - Technically most villages have a primary school within an hour’s walk (still a long way for a 5 year old across mountainous terrain!). In practice many are effectively closed or are closed for extended periods. Secondary schools are few and far between.
- Language - Nepali is not the first language in many villages, however all government schooling is delivered in Nepali. This makes schooling less relevant and useful to daily life and contributes to high dropout rates
- Teachers - There are no trained teachers in some remote areas meaning people from other areas are posted there. Unsupported teachers living in difficult conditions, away from their family, can struggle. This leads to long periods of teacher absence. In small villages, one teacher is expected to teach all grades. Other schools, in slightly larger villages, are woefully understaffed with class sizes of up to 80.
- Teaching methods - Many teachers have little experience or understanding of child friend techniques and focus on “talk and chalk”, rote learning. School staff working in remote areas receive very little supervision or support from government staff.
- Learning Environment - Many schools are in a state of disrepair, either with no furniture or unsuitable/unusable furniture. Classrooms can be dark and cold in winter and too hot in summer. There often is nowhere for the children to play during breaks and children usually don’t get anything to eat between leaving their homes in the morning and returning late afternoon.
- Curriculum - The Nepalese curriculum leads up to a standard national school examination after grade 10. Many children are not able to follow teaching which is geared to an exam they will never get a chance to take. There are no provisions to help those children attain a minimal standard of literacy and numeracy. In many cases children drop out of school after 1-2 years unable even to read Nepalese.
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