Nepal, May 23 -- In the first instalment of this column published four weeks ago, I argued that institutionalising the requirement of already published research articles as part of the application pac... Read More
Nepal, May 9 -- About six years ago, Nepal's oldest university, Tribhuvan University (TU), adopted a "PhD by coursework" route for its doctoral students in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science... Read More
Nepal, April 26 -- Two weeks ago I got a phone call from a friend I first met in the early 1990s. He told me he was applying to a PhD program at one of the universities in Nepal. He further said the u... Read More
Nepal, April 11 -- On March 22, 2024, an important exhibition titled "Modern Encounters in Architecture: Kathmandu Valley (1945-85)" opened at the Taragaon Next Museum in Boudha, Kathmandu. An eponymo... Read More
Nepal, March 29 -- Working on and off for almost a decade, the historical sociologist Lokranjan Parajuli and I were able to put together articles written by the political and literary historian Leelan... Read More
Nepal, March 15 -- Our knowledge of the history of school education in Nepal is rather limited. When some colleagues compiled a list of nearly 150 PhD dissertations completed by 2016 at various univer... Read More