Quality of Education in Nepal: Insight from Community and Private Schools
This paper analyses the quality of education in community and private schools inside the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. Quality education helps achieve goals and objectives, addresses community needs, fosters critical thinking and learning, and is also a key factor in national development in Nepal. This study has contributed to our understanding of the impact of school-managed transfer policies on the qualitative dimension of community schools. This topic is understudied in the Nepalese context. In the study, to determine current standards and establish guiding principles, a qualitative descriptive research method was employed through document review and questionnaires administered to parents regarding the quality of school education. The results suggest that parents are now more inclined towards private schools to the extent that a perceived learning difference in literacy and learning behaviors has been formed in community schools. Despite free basic education policies, teacher and learner-related problems persist as a challenge to effective teaching and learning in public schools, a challenge also experienced in other countries in the global competitive world.
Keywords: Community Schools, Curriculum, Parents, Policy, Private Schools, Quality of Education, Teachers.
