Nepal’s Educated Nonelite
Reevaluating State-Provided Higher Education
Andrea Kölbel, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Abstract
There has been much debate about the role of state-provided higher education in Nepal in recent years. The country’s first university was established in 1959 based on the idea that higher education constitutes an enabling factor both in the lives of individuals and in the development of society at large. State-provided higher education, however, seems to have failed on several counts, including governance, quality, and equity. In this chapter, I engage with this ongoing debate about the value of public higher education from two different angles: first, I outline which efforts have been made to ...
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