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The Government of Nepal, Ministry of Education (MOE), National Center for Educational Development Center (NCED), Nepal
has started the Open School Programme, for the first time in Nepal, since the FY
2064/065 (2007/08) . The programme is designed for grade Ten and was 1st piloted on Five schools, one from
each region of Nepal. The schools were located at Sunsari (Eastern region),
Rautahat (Mid-region), Kaski (Western region), Banke (mid-western region) and
Kailali (Far western region). Each school had capacity of 30 (thirty) students
and there were all together one hundred fifty students in the open school programme. The participant students appeared in the School Leaving
Certificate exam of 2064 (2008), and around 34 percent of the student passed the
SLC exam. The minimum qualification required for the
admission in the open school is- there should be at least 2 years gap after
completing the grade eight and should be more than 16 years of age.
Similarly, this year, the programme has been
expanded to 22 districts covering at least one school from each zone of Nepal.
There are all together around 1537 registered students in 22 schools and
are supposed to appear the SLC exam of 2065.
National Center for Educational Development,
Distance Education/Open Learning Division, Sanothimi has started publishing the
SLC support materials in the Gorkhapatra since Mangsir 2, 2064. There will be
all together 18 series ( 6 series each from English, Science and Mathematics)
and will be published on every Sunday.
Similarly, Radio programmes are
being broadcast through Radio Nepal and 24 Audio Visual
Programmes will be broadcast through Nepal Television from 1st week of Poush.
The content of the news paper
material, radio and TV programmes are based on the curriculum and specification
grid of class 10, as prepared by Curriculum Development Center (CDC). This programme is supposed to be
very helpful for the SLC appearing
students of 2065.
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