Kathmandu - The House of Representatives elections are being held on March 5th. The months of mid-February to March are the time for annual exams at the school level.  Since the printing of election ballots and exam question papers will be done from the Janak Education Materials Center, some changes have to be made to the School Education Examination (SEE) schedule, the news mentioned. The plan is to make the SEE schedule public in the third week of January. According to the news, since polling stations for the elections will be set up in schools, the exam schedule for other classes will also be changed. 

Elections and educational activities are completely different things. If there is an exam scheduled on the same day as the election, it is natural to reschedule the exam of that day. However, changing the academic calendar under the pretext of elections should be a matter of shame for the country's education administration. It is ironic that the academic calendar and exams are being postponed under the flimsy pretext of printing the question papers for the SEE exam, which begins almost a month after the election. This shows that education administration employees are more likely to find excuses to procrastinate than to do their work on time and efficiently.

The government also appears to have taken the easy way of changing the academic schedule rather than finding a way to hold elections without affecting regular academic activities. The government become ready to change the educational schedule for political activities is clear evidence that the state has low priority to the education.  This behavior of a government formed on the foundation of the Gen-Z revolt against the previous governance system seems ironic.

It has been found that the Office of the Controller of Examinations, Balkhu, of Tribhuvan University, made an error by declaring failed subjects even in subjects that had already been passed while publishing the results of the second year LLB from the Faculty of Law. According to the news, journalist Kaushila Kunwar failed in 'Criminal Law and Evidence Law' in the LLB second year (old course) exam in five subjects in 2022, so she filled out the form and re-sit the exam. The results published a few days ago, the student passed these subjects, but the mark sheet showed that the student was absent from the exam in the subject 'Public International Law', which she had already passed.

Everyone make mistakes at work, whether it's cooking or flying an airplane. The main thing is whether it is intentional or not. Generally, the media tends to distract from getting to the root cause by exaggerating the incident rather than looking at the trend of the issue. Arrangements for re-review are made because human errors occur. It is important to see how this mistake was addressed and how the authorities approached the victim.

Education Minister Mahabir Pun said that the most complaints are received about public schools, teachers, and management committees in Madhesh, there was the news. At a one-day seminar on the preparation for declaring a literate Madhesh Province, he said that more than half of the complaints out of the seven provinces come from Madhesh Province, mentioned he news. 

Arrangements are being made so that students who have studied at a domestic university other than Tribhuvan University (TU) will not need to obtain an equivalence certificate when applying for employment or enrolling in another university for further studies, published the news. Currently, there is a provision that students who have studied at any university in Nepal must obtain equivalency from TU if they are going for government employment or going to another university for further studies.

Gorkhapatra reported that even three months after the publication of the report of the TU's Land and Immovable Property Search Committee, 2024, no concrete progress has been made in the matter of returning encroached land. Although the report was made public in the last week of Asoj, preparations are underway to form another committee for its implementation, quoted the news. The Ministry of Education and TU have not reached an agreement on who will lead the report implementation committee. TU officials are in favor of forming another high-level committee tasked with implementing the current report and searching for the remaining TU land, there was the news but the ministry, on the other hand, is in favor of forming a committee led by the TU registrar and including officials from the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Home Affairs, and other agencies.   Although the government has made public a report expressing interest in the search for TU's land and has asked officials to search the land, TU has failed to protect its land, Gorakhapata Editorial mentioned. 

Teaching has begun with the implementation of the concept of Bagmati Province University, the news came. 

One of the leftist Students Union has drawn the attention of the Minister of Education, Science and Technology regarding the delay in the implementation of fee structures and decisions of central departments in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences under TU, the news came. The letter draws attention to the fact that even though four central departments under the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of TU have been upgraded to central departments as per the decision of the TU Senate, arbitrary fees have been charged, the news mentioned. 

Prof. Dr. Sunil Kumar Joshi has been appointed as the Vice-Chancellor and Dr. Khemraj Joshi as the Registrar of Shaheed Dashrath Chand University of Health Sciences, there was news. The Senate meeting held at the ministry, chaired by Education Minister Mahabir Pun, appointed the Vice-Chancellor and Registrar. 

In Kamala Municipality, located in the eastern part of Dhanusha, teachers who have not received their salaries for five and a half months have gone on strike after the budget for the current fiscal year could not be passed due to internal disputes among public representatives, the news published. Teachers working in 18 schools, including madrasas and public schools, in the municipality have been on strike since December 16, complaining that they have not received their salaries since August.

Raviraj Baral has wrote an article in Gorkhapatra titled "Schools with Digital Technology". The article stated that the successful implementation of digital education can help students develop important skills for 21st century such as problem-solving skills, critical thinking, digital literacy, and innovation.

In a Letter to the Editor wrote by KB Basnet in Gorkhapatra, it has been pointed out that producing competent human resources who can compete in the domestic and foreign labor markets in line with the demands of the times is the need of the day. 

Purpose of this news review is to classify and synthesize the educational content of the week and provide objective comments from the point of view of social justice and creative pedagogy including the environment. It is aimed to the policy makers and stakeholders to help make informed decisions. In this joint effort of the Center for Educational Policies and Practices (CEPP) and EduKhabar, material from daily newspapers - Kantipur, Gorkhapatra and The Himalayan Times, online news portals - Online Khabar, Setopati and Ratopati and the 8 o'clock news of Nepal Television and 7 o'clock news of Himalaya Television is summarized and presented with commentary on relevant issues. We have covered contents from Jan 3-9, 2026 in this issue and this often is the translated version of Nepali edition - The Editor.

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