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Arpan Upadhyaya; Sunaina Kuknor – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The paper examines the succession management strategies and the preparation level of heirs in the context of family-owned educational institutions in Nepal. Design/methodology/approach: Sixteen in-depth, semi-structured interviews with the institution's leader were conducted. Each interview was transcribed using content analysis. Several…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ownership, Family (Sociological Unit), Barriers
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Sato, Yuriko – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
This study aims to explore the factors that influence Asian student mobility using a life planning model, which focuses on students' lifelong planning and restricting factors in decision-making. As a result of macro data analysis of student mobility from six Asian source countries to eight major destinations from 1999 to 2017, the income gap…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Mobility, Planning, Decision Making
Mouni, Ram Bahadur – Online Submission, 2023
This article aims to identify the ideologies of school-head teachers towards a mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) policy and analyse how these ideologies influence the implementation of MTB-MLE policy in schools in the context of Nepal. Adopting qualitative ethnographic research, two school-level policy arbiters (head teachers)…
Descriptors: Ideology, Educational Policy, Language Planning, Multilingualism
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Adhikari, Devendra; Sharma Poudyal, Chandra; Binayek Pasa, Rajan – Research in Education, 2023
The 2015 constitution of Nepal declared Nepal to be a Federal, Democratic, and Republic nation. The constitution has provided local governments the right to manage school education, and the 2017 Local Government Operation Act of Nepal has outlined the roles and responsibilities of local governments in taking guardianship of school education. Since…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Local Government
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Yadu R. Upreti; Bhimsen Devkota; Sheri Bastien; Bal Chandra Luitel – Educational Action Research, 2024
Nutrition education at school can contribute to developing healthy nutritional behaviours in schoolchildren. This paper critically reflects on how participatory action research (PAR) empowered university researchers and a school community to co-develop a school-based nutrition education programme (SBNEP) that promotes healthy nutritional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nutrition Instruction, Action Research, Participatory Research
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Puskar R. Joshi; Zohreh R. Eslami – Cogent Education, 2024
Despite Nepal's huge linguistic diversity, maintaining minority languages and providing the mother tongue-based education to non-dominant language children are Nepal's two major obstacles. Scholars have pointed to a negative consequence of the standard language ideology on non-dominant language maintenance and mother tongue-based schooling. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Multilingualism, Native Language
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Amrit Thapa; Moe Izawa – Education Economics, 2024
This study examines the impact of educational attainment on employment and earnings in Nepal. Using the Nepal Labour Force Survey 2017-2018 cycle, we employ an extended earnings function derived from the foundational Mincer equation to estimate returns to education. The results underscore the overall positive impact of education (1.76, 3.73, 7.68…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Social Mobility, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities
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Sah, Pramod K. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article provides a critical review of English medium instruction (EMI) policy/practices in the K-12 multilingual schools in South Asia, especially in Nepal, India, and Pakistan. Employing Bourdieu's (1993) lens of 'linguistic capital' and 'linguistic marketplace,' the article takes stock of (a) the development of EMI and its ideological and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Elementary Schools
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Adhikari, Dev Raj; Shah, Bijaya Bikram – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to assess the state of the art of quality of education, research and governance to incorporate sustainable development goal 4 (SDG 4) in Nepalese higher education institutions (HEIs). In particular, it raises questions to initiate a discourse on HEIs to achieve SDG 4. Design/methodology/approach: The idea of undertaking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Videoconferencing, Educational Quality
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Bhim Lal Gautam – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This paper outlines the different aspects of language contact in Newar, the ethnic indigenous language community of the Kathmandu valley, focusing on language use and attitudes. The data were collected in 2016-2017 with the help of survey questionnaire, key informant interviews, informal interviews, and various observations based on the…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes, Native Language, Second Languages
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Sah, Pramod K. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2021
The paper explores how the discourse of nationalist and neoliberal agendas have shaped the conceptions of literacy education in Nepal, the ramifications for social stratification. As the review shows, the ruling elites tactfully imposed their language, culture, and knowledge in literacy curricula in the name of national unity, but to maintain…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Neoliberalism, Language Planning, Second Language Learning
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De Costa, Peter I.; Park, Joseph Sung-Yul; Wee, Lionel – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This introduction builds on De Costa et al.'s (2016], [2019) notion of linguistic entrepreneurship, which is defined as "the act of aligning with the moral imperative to strategically exploit language-related resources for enhancing one's worth in the world" (2016: 696). The four empirical studies and two critical commentaries that…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language Planning, Neoliberalism
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Regmi, Kapil Dev – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
In the context of educational globalisation, the role of supranational organisations in shaping the educational policy decisions, especially of aid-dependent countries, has increased. Using global governance as a theoretical framework and Critical Policy Sociology (CPS) as a methodological framework, this paper analysed key educational policy…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries
Weinberg, Miranda – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
Analyzing three cases of school-level language policy decision-making in Nepal shows that each school had a pair of language policy arbiters, actors with disproportionate power over language policy decisions. The permissive but passive stance of Nepal's government toward providing multilingual schooling including minoritized languages created a…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Decision Making, Ethnography, Power Structure
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Sah, Pramod K.; Karki, Jeevan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This study reports on an investigation into the perspectives of different stakeholders (e.g. administrators, teachers, students, and parents) towards motivations for introducing English as a medium of instruction (EMI) policy in low-resourced public schools, serving minoritized students, and language ideologies that form its practices. Framed…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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