Birendranagar schools to close for a week due to excessive heat; may affect Polio vaccination campaign Schools in Birendranagar, Surkhet, are set to be closed for a week starting Sunday due to extreme heat. Nepal 31 May, 2024
Schools closed due to increasing cold Teaching and learning activities have been affected due to the cold that has been increasing for the past few days. As a result, community schools in Siraha have started to close. Nepal 11 Jan, 2024
Excessive heat forces Banke community schools to shut Nepalgunj Sub Metropolitan City and Khajura Rural Municipality have decided to shut community schools within the local levels due to unbearable heat. Nepal 02 Jun, 2023
Improving literacy Improving literacy is crucial for children to succeed academically and enhance their life opportunities. Blogs 24 May, 2023
Combatting misinformation: Effective fact-checking is the way Language barriers play a significant role in the spread of misinformation. Nepal is a linguistically diverse country, and many people do not speak or understand Nepali Photo Gallery 14 Apr, 2023
Strengthening South Asia's resilience: Invest in human capital The last few years have ushered in a harsh new reality where crises are the norm rather than the exception. Opinion 20 Feb, 2023
COVID-19: Its devastating effects on India's education During the COVID-19 pandemic, India became the country with the second longest school closures in the world, topped only by Uganda. Opinion 17 Feb, 2023
Beds run out at Beijing hospital as COVID-19 spreads World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday he was concerned about the lack of outbreak data from the Chinese government. World 05 Jan, 2023
Global learning crisis The latest US math and reading scores showed worrisome declines due to the pandemic’s toll and related school closures. Blogs 16 Nov, 2022
Excessive heat forces schools to close Rajbiraj Municipality on Monday decided to close community schools for a month in the municipal areas due to the soaring temperature in Saptari. Nepal 12 Jul, 2022
Govts harm children's rights in online learning, warns HRW The governments of 49 countries, including Nepal, harmed children’s rights by endorsing online learning products during the COVID school closures without adequately protecting children’s privacy, Human Rights Watch said in a report released from Tokyo today. Nepal 26 May, 2022
Climate disasters drive Bangladesh children from classrooms to work Twelve-year-old Alamin's house rested on the bank of the Ilsha river in southern Bangladesh until last year, when the surging river eroded it and the family's farmland away, forcing them to flee to a slum in Keraniganj, close to the capital Dhaka. Environment 09 May, 2022
