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Nepal needs a flagship research university Kathmandu Post
Nepal, July 21 What is a research university?
A research university is, by definition, one that prioritises research over teaching. Its faculty members are engaged in the production of new knowledge. They engage in basic as well as applied research activities and report their findings in peer-reviewed books and journals. They compete for research grants offered by non-profit foundations, businesses, industry and the government.
Most research universities are meritocratic in orientation. They hire and retain highly qualified professors based on well-articulated criteria. These criteria include acquiring advanced academic credentials from top-tier universities, publishing articles in peer-reviewed journals, awarding competitive grants, and a prior academic appointment at other institutions of higher learning. Another aspect of their emphasis on merit relates to the intake of high achieving students. Togeth
Israel set to start taking in Nepali caregivers soon Kathmandu Post
Nepal, July 21 Nepali job-seekers aspiring to work in Israel will soon be able to file their applications as the two countries are in the final leg of preparations for hiring Nepali migrants.
Nepal and Israel had signed an understanding in September last year to export Nepali workers to Israel. After inking the deal, both countries also signed the Implementation Protocol in January to put the agreement into action.
Now, nearly ten months after signing the agreement, Israel is likely to start taking in workers soon as the Nepali authorities have been waiting to receive demands for Nepali workers, possibly this week.
The curse of tinpot heroes Kathmandu Post
Nepal, July 21 The tragicomedy of the Sunday evening at the Pratinidhi Sabha Bhavan in New Baneshwor had a reassuring ending. Since the outcome was expected, the play was enacted and watched with reciprocal boredom. When Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota declared that the motion of the vote of confidence tabled by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Dubai had been endorsed by a majority, the announcement was received with a huge sigh of collective relief.
Parliamentarians of the Nepali Congress (NC) know their chairperson too well to expect anything new from their septuagenarian leader. At 75, Prime Minister Deuba is one of the last politicos of the Veterans Generation of Nepal that were born before the overthrow of the Ranas in 1951 but grew up when the Shahs had begun to consolidate their stranglehold over the polity and society. They struggled against the authoritarian regime for almost three decades and were done with their life
Deuba struggles to expand Cabinet, more so by issues in his own party Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, July 21 As Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba begins consultations to expand his five-member Cabinet, he faces an uphill task with demands and complexities of the constituencies that supported him during the confidence vote in Parliament on Sunday.
The 165 lawmakers that voted for him belong to a disparate group.
Besides the Nepali Congress, lawmakers from the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), the two factions of the Janata Samajbadi Party that has more or less split, a section of the main opposition CPN-UML, and Rastriya Janamorcha supported Deuba.