Antar Bahadur Silwal

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Asia and the Pacific Seminar/Workshop on
Educational Technology -1999

• Antar Bahadur Silwal
• Tokyo- Japan
• 5 to 12 September

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Nepal Country PaperCurrent System and
Mechanism of Pre-service and In-service Teacher
Training and Teaching Learning Materials
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Background

• Nepal is landlocked, least developed with per
  capita income US 220
• Total 128 thousand teachers, 44 trained
• 49 people under the poverty line
• Only 53 are literate

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Current System of In service Teacher Training

• Different Departmental Institutions are providing
  Teacher Training
• NCED (Long term in service teacher training for
  primary level)
• BPEP (Resource centre based re-current short term
  teacher training for primary level)
• SEDP (In service short term teacher training in 5
  core subjects for secondary teacher)
• DEC

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Use of telecommunication

• Started with the establishment of Radio Nepal in
  1950
• Nepal initiated its efforts towards the use of
  information technology in education in 1978
• Establish Radio Education Teachers Training
  Project (RETTP) for training of the untrained
  teachers through radio

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Objectives of Distance Education Center (DEC)

• Providing in-service training each year for
  10,000 untrained primary school teacher
• Daily broadcasting various educational programs
  on non-formal, tourism program, population,
  health, agriculture, environment and womens
  education, children program and teacher training
  program
• It is planning to distribute audio cassettes of
  produced program and
• establish own radio station

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Problems

• Large parts of the country is very remote and do
  not have any road linkage
• Most of the areas no electricity facility
• No network between different areas
• NTV covers only 40 areas
• People can not afford TV
• Small market
• Lack of financial and trained human resources

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Problems

• Lack of explicit government policy
• Lack of institutional support to software
  developers
• Many people, either the decision-makers or the
  school teachers, are still unaware about the
  important of modern technology

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Conclusion

• Need clear vision and explicit policy of
  Government
• Establish separate government institutions for
  pre service teacher training
• Coverage of television should be increased
• Need of government and private investment
• NCED and DEC should emphasis to the primary level
  teacher training through PTTC