Between politics and education

Political parties will harm education if they continue using students and teachers for politics.

Political engagement of Nepali teachers and students has become a highly debated subject recently. Ironically, people who run political parties and governments in a multiparty system have raised this topic on different occasions. Lately, the well-meaning, young and intelligent Education Minister Sumana Shrestha has cast ripples by proposing to strictly bar teachers from directly engaging in political activities and holding their jobs at educational institutions simultaneously.