Higher Education Bill: A fiasco

The travesty of the proposed bill is that no authority is willing to take its ownership.

Nepal’s higher education is already in a deep doldrums. Questions around the quality and availability of courses and an incessant mass exodus of youths for university education are a few indicators of the looming crisis. According to the latest official figures, during the first half of the current fiscal year alone, 54,000 students exited the country. The national exchequer bled out nearly half a billion dollars from foreign currency reserves to ‘import’ educational services.