NOV 25 – The government on Monday claimed that the legislation on abortion and the newly-launched Safe Delivery and Free Health Services Programme have helped reduce the combined maternal mortality and morbidity ratio. In 2006, it stood at 281 per 1,000 live births; in 2009, the ratio came down to 229 per 1,000 live births, a significant improvement in three years. This is in keeping with the improvement in maternal mortality rate (MMR) in Nepal with the turn of the century. The latest findings are of the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Study (MRMS) 2009 in eight districts — Sunsari, Rupandehi, Kailali, Okhaldhunga, Baglung, Surkhet, Raswa, and Jumla — carried out by the Family Planning Division of the Department of Health Services. The rate of progress makes it likely that Nepal will meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of the MMR of 134 per 1,000 live births by 2015. Read more…
DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, NOV 23 –
The government on Monday said the legalisation of abortion and newly-launched safe delivery incentive programme and free health services helped reduce maternal mortality and morbidity ratio from 281 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2006 to 229 in 2009. Read more…
DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, NOV 24 -
Tribhuvan University (TU) on Tuesday told agitating students of its intention to review the recent hike in university tuition fees for Master’s and Bachelor’s levels, but the student unions said the university should roll back the decision completely. Read more…
SANGMO YONJAN-TAMANG
KATHMANDU, NOV 19
- With the rapid development of media outlets in Nepal, many of the Valley’s higher education institutions have adopted media courses into their syllabus. Taking this innovation further is Kathmandu University (KU), which conducted the country’s first educational chat conference as part of its Bachelor’s in Media Studies (BMS) curriculum. Read more…
TU Students, who have to pay more, will expect more
NOV 17 – The need for drastic revisions of the nearly two-decade-old fee structure of Tribhuvan University (TU) had long been felt. Thus, the Nov. 4 decision of TU academic council to hike tuition fees 10-fold was hardly a surprise. TU had made public its compulsion behind increasing fees by the same margin back in September as well. The first increase in tuition fees in 18 years will push up the annual academic bill of a Bachelor’s Level student to Rs. 6,650. Likewise, a Master’s Level student will now have to fork out Rs. 9,100 annually. In addition, TU has decided to increase the tuition fees automatically by 10 percent every two years. In the past, whenever TU had tried to increase tuition fees, it had been forced to backtrack by rioting students. Read more…
DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, NOV 19
– With the increasing cases of viral fever and panic over spread of swine flu across the country, the government is preparing to implement the swine flu national protocol guideline from the second week of December. Read more…
• May face student ire
DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, NOV 17 –
Tribhuvan University (TU) has hiked tuition fee by 10-fold after 18 years, but the decision is likely to provoke student protest. Read more…
DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, NOV 16 –
Nepal will achieve the universal goal on the elimination of leprosy by the end of 2009, said officials on Sunday. Read more…
Editorial
NOV 14 – The Ministry of Education (MOE) is all set to start the donor-sponsored National Literacy Campaign beginning Feb. 13 next year. The three-month-long campaign aims to bring down the illiteracy rate (defined as the ability to understand written alphabets) in Nepal down to zero. The government plans to involve both state and community-owned schools in the campaign, which will be conducted in close cooperation with 33,000 school principals. However, this is not the first time such an initiative is being undertaken. The first such programme was launched in 2008, which, say educationists, was only partially successful.
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DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, NOV 14
- Urban dwellers, beware! Doctors in the Valley on Saturday warned that city dwellers are suffering from a significant number of chronic, life-threatening ailments – heart disease, stroke, cancer, and high blood pressure to name a few-because of unhealthy living. Cases of diabetes, in particular, have seen a huge surge in recent times. Read more…
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