Disciplinary associations should do more

Among their activities, we see a predisposition towards poorly organised conferences.

In several of my previous columns, I have argued for a pluralistic higher education and research landscape in Nepal. One major constituting presence in such a landscape should be functionally useful discipline-specific national academic organisations. I don’t think it would be controversial to suggest that the primary objective of all such bodies should be to promote the status of their disciplines in the country and enhance the quality of the teaching and research contents of those disciplines through academic exercises.