‘Bring special schools under single educational law’

Kathmandu, Oct 12: Stakeholders at a ministry discussion have stressed incorporation of special schools into the Education Act and run those effectively as autonomous institutions.

The Ministry of Education and Sports organized a discussion on Monday with the concerned officials and educational stakeholders and garnered suggestions on the schools run for specific purposes. The suggestions were collected as part of the preparation of new law on school education.

Shailendra Jha, chief advisor to the Education Minister, chaired the meeting which dwelt on operation and management of special schools, policy and legal frameworks, financial management and the quality of teaching and learning.

The discussion underlined the need for creating legal and policy provisions to integrate these schools into the mainstream national school education system.

Joint secretary at the Ministry, Shiva Kumar Sapkota, stated that policy and structural reforms would be brought for more effective operation and management of schools established for specific purposes.

The representatives from the Army School, Police School, SOS School, Civil Service School, Gandaki Boarding School, Budhanilkantha School, and Martyrs Memorial School attended the discussion.

They shared the problems like declining number of student and shortage of teaching staff and various management challenges. They demanded formal address to the specialized schools through the integrated law, a new Education Act. (RSS)