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   Go public! Fund education 26 June 2024

   Addressing the teacher shortage crisis in Nepal: A call for action

   Nepal is grappling with a severe teacher shortage that threatens the future of its public education system. Despite the 2015 federal Constitution guaranteeing free and compulsory education, there is a critical shortage of over 65,000 teachers, particularly at lower secondary and secondary levels, to maintain national student-teacher ratios. Furthermore, 12.6...

   Addressing the teacher shortage crisis in Nepal: A call for action

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   Standards and working conditions 20 September 2023

   Nepal: Massive mobilisation of teachers denounce education law which aims to restrict their rights

   Education International fully supports the thousands of teachers and members of its affiliates in Nepal demonstrating to demand a respected and valued teaching profession in the face of a new law that seeks to curb their trade union rights.

   Nepal: Massive mobilisation of teachers denounce education law which aims to restrict their rights

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   Fighting the commercialisation of education 5 July 2023

   Go Public! Advocating for progressive taxation to fund public education in Nepal

   Education leaders and representatives from civil society came together at a three-day capacity building workshop in Nepal with a pressing agenda: to address the urgent need for increased domestic funding in the country's public education system. Their primary objective was to strengthen public education financing and advocate for the implementation...

   Go Public! Advocating for progressive taxation to fund public education in Nepal

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   Fighting the commercialisation of education 14 June 2023

   Educators in South Asia go public to fund education

   Over 140 union delegates from South Asian countries including India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal came together to reflect and learn from each other to play an active role in transforming education in South Asia.

   Educators in South Asia go public to fund education

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   Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 May 2023

   The struggle for the rights and dignity of education support personnel in private schools in Nepal

   Shyam Chhatkuli

   Our union, the Institutional Schools Teachers' Union (ISTU) brings together teachers and education support personnel working in privately funded schools in Nepal. Our mission is to improve the working conditions of our members, ensure their rights are respected, and their important role recognized. Our work is essential, but it is...

   The struggle for the rights and dignity of education support personnel in private schools in Nepal

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   Trade union rights are human rights 11 January 2023

   Nepal: Education unions agree to social dialogue with local governments

   After 8 months of campaigning, from 29-31 December 2022, Education International’s member organisations in Nepal – the Nepal National Teachers Association (NNTA), the Nepal Teachers Association (NTA) and the Institutional Schools' Teachers' Union (ISTU) – reached three separate agreements establishing mechanisms for social dialogue with the four Nepali local governmental...

   Nepal: Education unions agree to social dialogue with local governments