Promoting quality educationC.No. 5 A Concept Note on Promoting Quality Education Background Quality Education is the only power for transforming people and countries, because it is the wellspring of equality, ability, social opportunity, economic stability and national progress. It's well acknowledged that the Declaration on EFA in Thailand (1990) got a frame at Senegal's capital Dakar (2000) with the commitment of providing compulsory and free primary education till 2015 (EFA timeframe). Nepal has also shown its commitment on EFA and has launched the programme from 2061/62 developing its own EFA strategy. Although, the government of Nepal is trying the best attempts, it's unable to provide quality education as per its commitment on EFA. Still 13.1% primary schooling age group children of Nepal are far beyond the access of educational opportunities. Child Nepal (CN) has developed a concept note on promoting quality education in rural areas on Nepal making it as a key component of Model Educational Village (MEV) that the organization envisions. MEV programme further assisits in achieving the objectives of EFA. Objectives Promote the educational status of the rural children for making them academically able and competitive thereby reducing the growing educational gap among the children of rural and urban areas. Working areas Duwachaur VDC of Sindhupalchok and Gamtha VDC of Mugu, Karnali. Timeframe The programme will be running for 5 years (2008-20014). We will get the output in the year 2015. Target Groups Our primary target groups include all the school enrolling children of our targeted VDCs. The secondary target groups are teachers, SMCs and community people. Rationale For a country to come forward, the human resources must be capable and competitive. Education can be an effective tool for it, if it's qualitative. We don't prefer EFA, rather we workout for quality EFA. But, receiving quality education in the rural community of Nepal is far beyond. Many schools in those communities are run coordinating with inexperienced and qualification lacking teachers. This can never be an endeavour for attaining the objectives of EFA. The recent baseline survey run by CN at Duwachaur depicts 34.7% of the total children (3783) enrolling the schools (Survey is running at Mugu, Karnali). Among them 16.4% are girls and 18.3% are boys. Their performance in academic education is very poor as compared to the urban children. They're also unable to score good percentage in S.L.C. examinations. This has been a great challenge for the schools and community of Duwachaur. The continuation of the conventional educational practice will bring the VDC in collapse. The children will never be able to compete with the urban children and they will be the unnecessary human resources for the nation in future. This can never bring positive impact in the VDC and nation as a whole. Furthermore, we will never be able to achieve the objectives of quality EFA. Promotion of quality education can be the only alternative tools in this regard. Activities - Addition of Curriculums,
- Arrange quotas for additional teachers,
- Appoint additional teachers for English, Maths and Science through donors,
- Manage other educational materials,
- Develop child friendly environment in classrooms,
- Establish school library and manage equipped science labs,
- Sports management,
- Run educational tours and
- Run coaching classes for weak students for class 9 and 10.
Strategy - Through meaningful participation of the community people.
- Generate the source from project itself.
- To mobilize different working partners and donors.
- Inspire and activate the migrated local people towards own village development.
- Co-ordination with the Village Development Committee (VDC) District Development Committee (DDC) and concerned line agencies and ministries.
Outcomes - The educational gap among the children of rural and urban children will be reduced by 50% in the working timeframe.
- Rural community children will be competitive, capable and posses strong academic qualification.
Posted on 2010-09-02
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