Kathmandu Metropolitan City Launches Skill-based Program for Secondary Schools
Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has launched a skill-based program for public schools in classes 9 to 12 to provide practical education and life-useful skills. The program aims to prepare students for self-employment in technical fields after completing their school level. The KMC has allocated a budget of Rs 1 lakh for the current financial year and Rs 2 lakh for the next financial year for each school.
Skill-Oriented Curriculum
The program covers ten areas, including agriculture and urban farming, beauty art and hair style, carpentry, nail carving and filling bellbutta, culinary art, fashion design and textile manufacturing, home wiring and electrical, traditional art of building construction for disaster preparedness, mobile and electrical goods, pipe fitting and repair, and art and sculpture.
Certificate of Useful Skills
Students will receive a certificate of useful skills in life according to their interests, along with the academic certificate upon completion of the school level. Each training group will consist of 20 to 30 students, and the first year of the program will be implemented for class 9 in the academic session 2080. Graduates with a related subject and training instructor certification from a recognized institution can be training instructors.
Making Education More Professional
KMC aims to make child education, basic education, and secondary education more professional to produce skilled manpower. Currently, 11 public schools are teaching technical subjects from class 9 to 12. There are 89 community schools, 59 secondary schools, and 30 primary schools in the metropolis, with 150,000 students studying in 540 private schools. The skill-based program is expected to improve the quality of education and make students more employable.
Published on 13th April 2023
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