On 19 June 2022, the Faculty of Education, Tribhuvan University organised a seminar to disseminate preliminary findings of the study in Lalitpur. Despite some delays caused by the repeated outbreaks of COVID-19 in completing the survey and follow up qualitative...
Researching Policy and Practice
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Preparing and implementing a survey on inclusive education in Nepal during Covid-19
When the project Inclusive Education in Nepal: Policies and Practice was initiated and funding secured at the end of 2018, nobody could have foreseen the scale of challenges we had to face due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The restrictions on travel and school closures...
Survey on Inclusive Education in Nepal: Methodological reflections
A. Prelude: The research team decided to include all seven provinces in Nepal to ensure that the data represented the situation of educational inclusion nationally. Within a province, two districts were selected ensuring that schools and municipalities represented...
NGOs and CBOs for the development of inclusive education in Nepal
During our visit to a school in Thaddhunga, Gulmi, a woman who helped keep school premises clean and litter free said, ‘There are some unknown forces and ideals that bring us to the service of school.’ We were curious to know what motivated her to be in this role and...
Co-creation and inclusive education in a context of decentralised school governance
Governments all over the world do currently face wicked problems in service delivery policies that call for innovation and increased cooperation. One strand of governance that tries to address this, which is often associated with New Public Management (Hope and...