Rich school, poor school

The steady decline of public school education portends a bleak future for the ‘socialism-oriented’ country.

The impending closure or downgrading of 23 out of 48 community schools in Tamakoshi Rural Municipality in Ramechhap is symbolic of the ills in public education that has engulfed the entire country today. As profit-oriented private schools aggressively take over the education sector, the number of community or government schools continues to dwindle, making education a necessary luxury. The decline of public schools is a result of structural problems in contemporary Nepal, ranging from discrepancies in implementation of federalism to problems of migration—and warrant both short- and long-term remedial strategies.