Himalayan News Service

Kathmandu, May 14:

Tribhuvan University (TU) is reviewing its plan to introduce Distance Education in the higher levels of the Humanities and Management faculties in order to regularise the private examination system.

“We are hopeful that with distance education, students appearing for private examination can prepare themselves better and results will be better,” said Professor Dr Tri-Ratna Manandhar, taskforce committee coordinator.

“Regular classes, once in three months, will help students to stay updated on the subject,” said Manandhar.

The private examination system has been in vogue since 1962,. That is, ever since the establishment of Tribhuvan University.

“The private examination system has been posing a serious problem in the Humanities faculty as there are more private examinees than regular students,” said Manandhar.

“There is no mechanism to make them attend classes. Because of this, the failure rate is high.”

“The concept of an open university will need further time to materialise. Hence, the study report submitted by the taskforce has suggested starting distance education first,” said Manandhar.

Hari Bahadur Karki, chief of the Curriculum Development Centre at TU, said with effective implementation of the distance mode it is expected that the results would be better than in the past.

TU has formed a 7-member committee led by Professor Dr Tri-Ratna Manadhar in March.

Before that, a research committee formed two years ago submitted a report on the need of distance education.

TU sources said that the first-ever interaction on the subject will take place on May 16.