EDUCATION IN NEPAL

GENERAL INFO.
1. Modern education began with the establishment of the first school in 1853
2. this school was only for the members of the ruling families and their courtiers
3. Schooling for the general people began only after 1951
4. In the past 50 years, there has been a dramatic expansion of education facilities in the country


ADMINISTRATION
5. Ministry of Education is the apex body responsible for initiating and managing education activities in the country
6. Minister of Education, assisted by the State/Assistant Minister, provides political leadership to the Ministry
7. With a purpose of bringing education administration nearer to the people, the Ministry has established five Regional Directorates and 75 District Education Offices in five development regions and 75 districts respectively
8. decentralized offices are responsible for overseeing nonformal and school-level education activities in their respective areas
9. Regional Directorates are mainly responsible for coordinating and monitoring and evaluation of educational activities and the District Education Offices are the main implementing agencies


STRUCTURE
10. Education in Nepal is structured as school education and higher education.
11. School education includes primary level of grades 1–5
12. lower secondary and secondary levels of grades 6–8 and 9–10 respectively
13. Pre-primary level of education is available in some areas
14. Six years old is the prescribed age for admission into grade one
15. A national level School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination is conducted at the end of grade 10
16. Grades 11 and 12 are considered as higher secondary level
17. Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) supervises higher secondary schools which are mostly under private management
18. the policy now is to integrate these grades into the school system
19. Higher education consists of bachelor, masters, and Ph.D. levels
20. Depending upon the stream and subject, bachelors level may be of three to five years' duration
21. duration of masters level is generally two years
22. Some universities offer programs like M Phil and post-graduate diplomas.
23. Legally, there are two types of school in the country: community and institutional
24. Community schools receive regular government grants whereas institutional schools are funded by school's own or other non-governmental sources
25. Institutional schools are organized either as a non-profit trust or as a company
26. in practical terms, schools are mainly of two types: public (community) and private (institutional)
27. The third type of school is the kind run by the local people enthusiastic toward having a school in their locality
28. They do not receive regular government grants and most of them do not have any other sustainable financial source
29. Supported and managed by the local people, they can be thus identified as the real community schools


LEVELS IN SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, AND UNIVERSITIES
1. Nursery
2. Lower Kindergarten (LKG)
3. Upper Kindergarten (UKG)
4. First Grade
5. Second Grade
6. Third Grade
7. Fourth Grade
8. Fifth Grade
9. Sixth Grade
10. Seventh Grade
11. Eighth Grade
12. Ninth Grade
13. Tenth Grade
14. SLC (School Leaving Certificate) (A test based on Tenth Grade study. To appear in SLC exam the student must complete pre-test exam of Tenth Grade based on SLC exam pattern.)
15. 10+2 (Intermediate Level) (two years)
16. Bachelors (three or four years)
17. Masters (two years)
18. Ph.D.