Locating Public Finance Dynamics in Education in Nepal

This project seeks to understand the dynamics associated with the flows and usages of public finances within the school education sector.

This project seeks to understand the dynamics associated with the flows and usages of public finances within the school education sector in Nepal by analyzing the manner in which different social actors interpret meanings and measure moral and legal claims, practices and behaviors tied to corruption in the context of local standards and practices. The education sector, which receives the largest government and donor budgetary allocations and has undergone significant decentralization reforms, serves as a useful window through which public financial governance and the framing and understandings of corruption in Nepal can be understood during a protracted socio-political transition. The project is led by Martin Chautari in collaboration with Kathmandu University, Nepal and Aarhus University, Denmark. The project covers a period of five years (January 2015–December 2019) and is funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Publications

Books

पराजुली, लोकरञ्जन, देवेन्द्र उप्रेती र प्रत्यूष वन्त, सं. । सन् २०२३ । विद्यालय शिक्षाका वित्तीय आयाम । काठमाडौँ : मार्टिन चौतारी ।

पराजुली, लोकरञ्जन, प्रत्यूष वन्त, देवेन्द्र उप्रेती, सं. । सन् २०२२ । नेपालमा विद्यालय शिक्षा : इतिहास, राजनीति र समाज । काठमाडौँ : मार्टिन चौतारी ।

उप्रेती, देवेन्द्र, लोकरञ्जन पराजुली र प्रत्यूष वन्त, स‌ं. । सन् २०२२ । नेपालमा विद्यालय शिक्षा : सामुदायिकीकरण, संघीयता र विपद् । काठमाडौँ : मार्टिन चौतारी ।

Parajuli, Lokranjan, Devendra Uprety and Pratyoush Onta, eds. 2021. School Education in Nepal: History and Politics of Governance and Reforms. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari.

पराजुली, लोकरञ्जन, देवेन्द्र उप्रेती र रुख गुरुङ । २०७६ । नेपालका सामुदायिक विद्यालय : विद्यालय सञ्चालन प्रक्रिया सम्बन्धी सर्वेक्षण । काठमाडौँ : मार्टिन चौतारी ।

Journal (Education Special Issue)

बस्नेत,चूडामणि, देवराज हुमागाईं, देवेन्द्र उप्रेती, प्रत्यूष वन्त, महेशराज महर्जन, लोकरञ्जन पराजुली, शेखर पराजुली र हर्षमान महर्जन, सं. । २०७८ । समाज अध्ययन १६। काठमाडौँ : मार्टिन चौतारी ।

Journal Articles

पन्थी, अर्जुन । २०७९ । ब्राह्मणहरूको शैक्षिक गतिशीलता : हरिहर संस्कृत पाठशालाको उदय र उन्नतिको इतिवृत्त (वि.सं. १९७०–२०२१) । समाज अध्ययन १७ ः १३३–१७९ ।

मोक्तान, सन्जिला । २०७९ । कोभिड-१९ महामारीमा विद्यालय शिक्षा : संघीय र स्थानीय सरकारको “रेस्पोन्स” । समाज अध्ययन १७ ः १८१–२०१ ।

Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2022. Decentralization of Corruption in the Education Sector: An Analysis of Anti-Graft Reports. Molung Educational Frontier 12: 208–229.

Dhakal, Rebat Kumar. 2021. How Are ‘Included’ Excluded and Vice-Versa: Negotiated Participation of Women in School Governance in Nepal. Journal of Social Inclusion Studies 7(1): 16–33.

Hamal, Sanjay. 2020. Trust in Ethnography: Narrating the Difficulties, Rewards and Dilemmas of Entry, Engagement and Exit (3Es) in the Research Field. Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 14: 97–105.

Parajuli, Lokranjan. 2019. Schools as an Arena of Struggle: Reexamining the Panchayat Era Politics of Education . Studies in Nepali History and Society 24(2): 381–414

Parajuli, Lokranjan. 2019. Where Interests Collided: Examining the Conflictual Relationship between the Nepali State and Its Citizens through the History of Public Libraries. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 42(5): 954−970.

Parajuli, Lokranjan and Pratyoush Onta. 2022. Learning How the People of Nepal Feel About Education: The Survey Done by the Nepal National Education Planning Commission, 1954. Studies in Nepali History and Society 27(2): 409–464.

पराजुली, लोकरञ्जन, देवेन्द्र उप्रेती र रुख गुरुङ । २०७६ । संघीय नेपालमा स्थानीय सरकार र विद्यालय शिक्षा । समाज अध्ययन १४ : ८३−११८ ।

Parajuli, Mahesh Nath, Indra Mani Rai, Prakash C Bhattarai, Suresh Gautam. 2019. Local Values in Governance: Legacy of Choho in Forest and School Management in a Tamang Community in Nepal. Journal of Indigenous Social Development 8(1): 35−55.

Pradhan, Uma. 2019. Multi-ethnic Citizens in Multi-ethnic State: Constructing State-citizen Relation with ‘Difference’ in Adivasi Janajati Scholarship Programme. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 42(5): 937−953.

Pradhan, Uma and Karen Valentin. 2020. Free Education? Blurred Public-Private Boundaries in State-Run Schooling in Nepal. Studies in Nepali History and Society 25(2): 277–298.

Pradhan, Uma, Shivana Shrestha, and Karen Valentin. 2019. Disjunctured Reciprocity: Paradoxes of Community-School Relationship in Nepal. Globalisation, Society, and Education 17(5): 561–573.

Valentin, Karen and Uma Pradhan. 2019. Towards a Relational Approach to the State: Understanding Social and Political Transformation in Nepal. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 42(5): 880−885.

Valentin, Karen. 2019. The Multiple Faces of the State: Encounters between the State and Squatters in Kathmandu. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 42(5): 988−1002.

Research Reports

मोक्तान, सन्जिला र देवेन्द्र उप्रेती । २०७८ । कोभिड-१९ महामारीमा विद्यालय शिक्षा : अनुसन्धान प्रतिवेदन । काठमाडौँ : मार्टिन चौतारी ।

Research Briefs

Martin Chautari. 2020. Social Assistance Program for Education in Nepal. Research Brief, No. 30. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari

मार्टिन चौतारी । २०७६ । संघीय व्यवस्थामा स्थानीय सरकार र विद्यालय शिक्षा । शोध संक्षेप २८ । काठमाडौँ : मार्टिन चौतारी ।

मार्टिन चौतारी । २०७६ । संघीयता र विद्यालय शिक्षा । शोध संक्षेप २४ । काठमाडौँ : मार्टिन चौतारी ।

मार्टिन चौतारी । २०७९ । स्कूले भूमि नासिने प्रक्रिया । शोध-संक्षेप ३५ । काठमाडौँ : मार्टिन चौतारी ।

Bibliographies

Moktan, Sanjila. 2021. Covid-19 Pandemic and Higher Education in Nepal: A Bibliography. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari.

Tamang, Sanjeela. 2021. Covid-19 Pandemic and School Education in Nepal: A Bibliography. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari.

Pokharel, Prabhakar and Sanjeela Tamang. 2020. Bibliography on Technical and Vocational Education in Nepal. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari.

Gurung, Rukh. 2020. The April 25, 2015 Earthquake and School Education: A Bibliography. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari.

Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur, Pramod Bhatta and Devendra Uprety. 2017. Bibliography on Governance, Public Finance Dynamics and Corruption in Nepal (with special reference to school education). Kathmandu: Martin Chautari.

Devendra, Uprety, Shak Bahadur Budhathoki and Pramod Bhatta. 2016. Bibliography of PhD Dissertations on Nepal’s School Education. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari.

Project Partners

This is a collaborative project between Martin Chautari (MC), Kathmandu University School of Education (KUSOED) and Aarhus University (AU), with MC as the lead institution. The project has been funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and administered by Danida Fellowship Centre (DFC).

PhD Research

Dhakal, Rebat Kumar. 2021. Women in School Governance in Nepal: An Ethnographic Inquiry. PhD diss., Kathmandu University.

Hamal, Sanjay. 2021. Rules Beyond the Rules: An Ethnographic Study of Informal Institutions in the Community School. PhD diss., Kathmandu University.

Khanal, Kul Prasad. 2019. Exploring of Accountability in Community Schools: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Inquiry. PhD diss., Kathmandu University.

Munakarmi, Rupa. 2023. Paradoxes of School Teachers in Practicing Integrity: An Ethnographic Study of Public Schools of Nepal. PhD diss., Kathmandu University. (Final Stage)

News/Articles

Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2016. A Bad Lesson. The Kathmandu Post, 12 April.
Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2016. Cost of Education. The Kathmandu Post, 11 January.
Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2016. Disappearing Ink. The Kathmandu Post, 8 March.
Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2016. Education and Policy. The Kathmandu Post, 5 July.
Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2016. Public Finance in Schools. The Kathmandu Post, 23 August.
Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2017. Corruption in Education: Policy and Practice. The Himalayan Times, 23 October.
Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2017. English Hurdles. Republica, 9 August.
Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2017. Principal Concern. Republica, 23 August.
Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2018. Education Policies: Why they Fail in Nepal? The Himalayan Times, 24 August. p. 8.
Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2018. Educational Decentralisation and Corruption. The Rising Nepal, 22 July. p. 4.
Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2018. Making Local Education Policies. The Rising Nepal, 11 November, p. 4.
Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2018. Reforming School Enrolment Campaign. The Rising Nepal, 15 August, p. 4.
Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2018. Status of Teaching-Learning in Nepal. The Rising Nepal, 5 September, p. 4.
Budhathoki, Shak Bahadur. 2018. Understanding Private Sector Education. The Rising Nepal, 30 September, p. 4.
उप्रेती, देवेन्द्र । २०७५ । सरकार भन्छ, शिक्षा ‘सी’ ग्रेडको । नागरिक, २१ असोज, पृ. ७ ।
उप्रेती, देवेन्द्र र लोकरञ्जन पराजुली । २०७६ । विद्यालय शिक्षा स्थानीय सरकारलाई नै । कान्तिपुर, ८ जेठ, पृ. ७ ।
उप्रेती, देवेन्द्र । २०७९ । दलका सारथि शिक्षक सङ्गठन । हिमाल १२(६९५): ७२−७३ ।
गुरुङ, रुख र लोकरञ्जन पराजुली । २०७५ । भूकम्पपछिको विद्यालय पुनर्निर्माण । नागरिक, कात्तिक १८, पृ. ६ ।
पराजुली, लोकरञ्जन । २०७३ । महिला शिक्षा पुरुषका लागि ! कान्तिपुर, ८ जेठ, पृ. ।
पराजुली, लोकरञ्जन । २०७५ । शिक्षाबारे के सोच्नुभएको छ ? नागरिक, २२ साउन, पृ. ।
पराजुली, लोकरञ्जन । २०७७ । ‘आधुनिक’ शिक्षाको जग । अन्नपूर्ण, फुर्सद, १७ फागुन, पृ. ग. ।
पराजुली, लोकरञ्जन । २०७९ । बिचौलियाको मुठीमा शिक्षा । हिमाल १२(६९५): ५४−५६ ।
पराजुली, लोकरञ्जन, देवेन्द्र उप्रेती र रुख गुरुङ । २०७६ । शिक्षामा स्थानीय सरकारको दायित्व । कान्तिपुर, १७ पुस, पृ. ७ ।
पन्थी, अर्जुन । २०७९ । स्कुल खोल्ने त्यो दौडधुप । कान्तिपुर (कोसेली), २५ असार, पृ. ख. ।
पन्थी, अर्जुन । २०७९ । शैक्षिक सङ्घर्षका दुई साक्षी । हिमाल १२(६९५): ७८−७९ ।
बुढाथोकी, शकबहादुर र प्रमोद भट्ट । २०७२ । अख्तियार र महालेखा प्रतिवेदनमा विद्यालय तहमा हुने अनियमितता । शिक्षक ८(९५) : ५०−५३ ।
भट्ट, प्रमोद । २०७३ । पट्यारलाग्दो स्कूल दैनिकीको पुनरावलोकन । शिक्षक : ११−१३ ।
भट्ट, प्रमोद । २०७४ । कसैले केही सिक्यौं त ? शिक्षक १०(१२२) : ३२−३३ ।
भट्ट, प्रमोद । २०७४ । परीक्षाका लागि पढाइ ! शिक्षक १०(११३) : १२−१३ ।
भट्ट, प्रमोद । २०७४ । संघीयता र सार्वजनिक शिक्षा ‘तावा’बाट ‘भुङ्ग्रो’ मा ? शिक्षक १०(११९) : ३८−३९ ।
भट्ट, प्रमोद । २०७४ । स्कूल शिक्षामा तहगत विभेद । शिक्षक १०(१०९) : ७२ ।
भट्ट, प्रमोद । २०७४ । देशमा ‘अर्ध-सरकारी’ र निजी विद्यालयको बढ्दो वर्चश्व । शिक्षक ।
भट्ट, प्रमोद र सुदीप नकर्मी । २०७२ । ‘घोकन्ते’ र ‘ओकन्ते’ विद्या जाँच्ने एसएलसी । कान्तिपुर, २२ चैत, पृ. ।
भट्ट, प्रमोद र सुदीपसिंह नकर्मी । २०७२ । एसएलसीका लागि हाम्रा विद्यार्थीले के सिक्छन् ? शिक्षक ८(९६) : ४०−४३ ।
भट्ट, प्रमोद । २०७६ । सार्वजनिक शिक्षाको अर्ध-निजीकरण । शिक्षा पत्र पृ. ६ ।
मोक्तान, सन्जिला र देवेन्द्र उप्रेती । २०७८ । कोभिड महामारीमा देखियो शिक्षामा सरकारको कमजोरी र असमानता । नेपाल भ्यूज, कात्तिक ३० ।
मोक्तान, सन्जिला । २०७७ । कोभिड-१९ ले नेपालको विद्यालय शिक्षामा के प्रभाव पार्यो? के सिकायो? हिमालखबर, फागुन २८ ।
मोक्तान, सन्जिला । २०७८ । महामारीमा विश्वविद्यालय शिक्षा : कति प्रभावित, कहाँ चुके? हिमालखबर, जेठ २७ ।

Resources

School Education

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