List of contributor
Acknowledgments
Foreword (Sabnam Koirala-Nawaj)
Section I: Introduction
1. Telling Stories, Generating Perspectives: Local-Global Dynamics in Nepalese Higher education. (Krishna Bista, Shyam Sharma, Rosalind L. Raby)
Section II: Socio-economic Contexts and Issues
2. Higher Education and Economic Development in Nepal. (Amrit Thapa and Ujjwala Maharjan)
3. Progress and Lags in Educational Attainment in Nepal. (Shyam Thapa)
4. Understanding Policies, Priorities, and Roles: Higher Education in Nepal at Crossroad. (Suresh Gautam, Prakash C. Bhattarai, and Tanka Nath Sharma)
5. Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and Higher Education Choice in Nepal. (Damodar Khanal)
6. Faculty and student experience of earthquakes in Nepal: Crisis management recommendation in Nepalese higher education. (Rajendra Joshi & Herbert Fynewever)
Section III: Globalization and Global Issues
7. Brain Drain and Higher Education in Nepal. (Bhesh Raj Mainali)
8. Diaspora and Capacity Building in Higher Education in Nepal: An Entrepreneurial Perspectives. (Dinesh Gajurel and Basu Sharma)
9. Nepalese Recruiting Agents for Overseas Higher Education: Issues and Challenges. (Krishna Bista)
10. Higher Education: Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal. (Monica L. Lakhwani)
Section IV: Important Trends and Changes
11. Making the Shifts to Change the System: Implementing Semester System through Pedagogical Training in Tribhuvan University. (Sudha Tripathi, Shyam Sharma and Surendra Subedi)
12. Decentralized and Autonomous Higher Education in Nepal: How Nepalese Higher Education Derived These Names and Legitimacy. (Nitya Nanda Timsina)
13. Open University of Nepal Initiative: Lessons Learned from Designing an Institution of Higher Learning. (Pramod Dhakal, Drona Rasali, Ambika Adhikari, and Raju Adhikari)
Section V: Disciplinary and Social Perspectives 14. Nepal's Journalism Education in Tertiary Level and the Role of Diaspora Scholars. (Bhanubhakta Acharya)
15. A Situated Discourse: How Writing is Defined and Taught in Higher Education in Nepal. (Santosh Khadka)
16. Community Colleges and Youth Mobilization: Assessing the 21st Century Workforce Development in Nepal. (Krishna Bista and Uttam Gaulee)
Section VI: Paths Forward
17. Redesigning Higher Education in Nepal. (Shyam Sharma)
18. Privatizing Higher Education of Nepal: Problems and Possibilities. (Bala Raju Nikku)
19. Promising innovations in Teacher Professional Development through the Application of ICTs and Open and Distance Learning. (Ellen Carm)
Section VII: Conclusion20. Complexities of Higher Education in Nepal (Rosalind L. Raby, Shyam Sharma, Krishna Bista)
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