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According to organisers, the drama will be staged at the KU Auditorium, Dhulikhel on 2nd and 3rd September and at the Village Theatre in Uttar Dhoka on 6th and 7th September. Tickets are available at the Ekta Book Centre. Producer Ian Raitt says, “We will present the Mahabharata Part 3 – The War and complete a cycle of dramas presented by the school which began in 2008.” Tickets are priced at Rs 100 for students and Rs 300 for adults.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">UGC to Introduce a New Education Policy</span></strong></div> <div> The University Grants Commission (UGC) is gearing up to introduce a new higher education policy that will help develop universities in Nepal as learning centres. The UGC will form a policy that will boost the quality of university education in Nepal, according to UGC Chairman Ganesh Man Gurung. A discussion was held last week on a preliminary draft formulated by the Commission in the capital. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Job Mela at Don Bosco</span></strong></div> <div> <img alt="KDBC" src="/userfiles/images/kdbc.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 125px; height: 26px;" />Kathmandu Don Bosco College (KDBC) has organised a job placement day on August 24 at its college premises in Kathmandu. The event was targeted at the students of the college to help explore employment opportunities. Some international and national corporate houses such as Chaudhary Group, Sitoula Group and JF Group among others participated in the programme.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">ECAN Celebrates 17th Anniversary </span></strong></div> <div> <img alt="ECAN" src="/userfiles/images/ecan.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 90px; height: 88px;" />Educational Consultancy Association of Nepal (ECAN) celebrated its 17th anniversary on Thursday, 29th August. A blood donation programme was organised on the occasion. According to President Rajendra Baral, 42 people donated blood on the occasion. At the programme, Baral said that ECAN is committed to giving fair educational counselling and is determined to improve their shortcomings. President of Nepal Chamber of Commerce Suresh Kumar Basnet, President of Nepal Professors’ Association Rameshwor Upadhayay, ECAN General Secretary Mahesh Babu Timalsina, ECAN Advisor Arun Lamichhane, and Former ECAN President Dipak Gurung were present in the programme. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Nepalis Students Took Part in the ASC Camp 2013</span></strong></div> <div> <img alt="ASC" src="/userfiles/images/asc.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 33px;" />Five students from Nepal participated in the Asian Science Camp 2013 that was held August 25 onward in Japan. Students promising in science were selected for the participation. A five day-long event included discussions and dialogues session among students and top scholars around the world. The programme promoted international friendship and cooperation among the students of Asia, Australia and Oceania. Among more than 200 students from various countries Rishav Acharya, Prayog Koirala, Ishan Bhattarai, Samikshya Shrestha and Swaviman Acharya took part in the event representing their respective education institutions.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-09-02', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Students of Kathmandu University High School will stage a drama based on epic Mahabharata in the first week of the September.', 'sortorder' => '1602', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1609', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (12-18 August 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;"><img alt="KUSOM" src="/userfiles/images/KUSOM.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 125px; height: 126px;" />4th KUSOM Job and Internship Fair </span></strong></div> <div> With the presence of 14 leading companies, the 4th KUSOM Job and Internship Fair (KJIF) took place on August 8, 2013 in KUSOM premises. The event was organized by KJIF team formed under KUSOM Placement Cell.The fair was organized to provide a platform for interaction between graduating students of KUSOM seeking placement or internship and the companies looking for management graduates. The participating companies include Beed Management Pvt. Ltd, Bottlers Nepal Ltd., DHL Express Nepal Ltd. Global IME Bank Ltd. Kailash Bikas Bank Ltd., MAW Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., MC Group of Companies, Nabil Bank Ltd., NIC Asia Bank Ltd., NMB Capital Ltd., Surya Nepal, Triveni Byapar Co. Pvt Ltd., Unilever Nepal Ltd and V-Chitra. It has a mix of banks, manufacturing companies, ad agencies, Research agencies and trading companies. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Short story felicitation to Bhattarai</span></strong></div> <div> This year’s ‘short story felicitation’ is being awarded to writer Pushkar Raj Bhattarai by the Short Story Society (SSS). Bhattarai, who is pursuing a research study in short stories, will be awarded on the occasion of ‘National Short Story Day’ celebrated in the 1st week of Bhadra. The award includes a cash prize of five thousand rupees along with a felicitation letter. The Short Story Society will be organising a special programme for the day with the association of Nepal Academy. The National Short Story Day is celebrated on the fifth day of Bhadra each year.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Book Collection Movement</span></strong></div> <div> The ‘One Book Movement’ has been initiated with the aim to make children’s literature available to rural children. An organisation named ‘Education Nepal’ is starting the movement from August 12. One hundred and twenty volunteers are collecting books from educational institutes and people’s homes to distribute to children in remote districts. At a press meet, Education Nepal informed that their aim is to collect 100,000 books. According to director Prem Bahadur Bohara, the collected books will be distributed in rural areas to students from class 1 to 10. The organisation had distributed 10,000 books to students in Jajarkot and Dolpa last year.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">SLC Supplementary Exams Completed</span></strong></div> <div> The SLC supplementary exams which started in August 4 were completed yesterday. Students who failed in a maximum of two subjects in the SLC exams last year took the exam. Nationwide 111,000 students appeared for the exam. This year, 55,000 students had failed in the Science subject, 50,000 in Mathematics and 31,000 in English.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">2nd ICT Meet-up</span></strong></div> <div> The 2nd KRM Software ICT Meet-Up 2013 took place this Saturday in Kathmandu. The meeting was organised by Prime College and Prime IT Club with a purpose to help students identify best employment opportunities in Information Technology (IT). A large number of IT students and IT institutes were present in the programme. “The programme helps to inform IT students about future opportunities,” Principal of Prime College, Naresh Shrestha, said. The registration fee for the programme was Rs 1, the proceeds of which will be provided to ‘Help Nepal Network’.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Corporate Meet by Nobel Academy</span></strong></div> <div> Nobel Academy, Pokhara organised a meeting with the corporate houses of Pokhara and nearby places last Tuesday. Thirty-five representatives from corporate houses participated in the programme. The programme was organised to develop relationships with corporate houses and to collect suggestions for the human resource needs of corporate houses. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-08-12', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'With the presence of 14 leading companies, the 4th KUSOM Job and Internship Fair (KJIF) took place on August 8, 2013 in KUSOM premises.', 'sortorder' => '1470', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1563', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (5-11 August 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <strong>Committee Formed to Celebrate 8th National Library Day </strong></div> <div> A main organisation committee has been formed in the chairmanship of Narayan Gopal Malego, secretary of the Ministry of Education, to celebrate the 8th National Library Day on Bhadra 15 (August 31st). Bhim Dhwoj Shrestha, chief at the Tribhuwan University’s Central Department of Library and Information Science, has been appointed as Vice-chairman of the committee. The National Library Day has been celebrated annually for the last 7 years to increase awareness about libraries. The committee has decided to celebrate this year’s library day as a weeklong celebration. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>BBA Programmes to have 4th Year </strong></div> <div> The Ministry of Education has directed colleges with Indian university affiliation offering BBA (Bachelor in Business Administration) programmes to extend the programme to 4 years. As the BBA programmes offered in Tribhuwan University (TU) and Kathmandu University (KU) are of 4 years, the ministry has directed colleges with Indian university affiliations to change their programmes to 4-year-programmes too. This step has been taken to maintain the equivalence among students from Nepali universities and Indian universities. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>PF for Community Schools’ Staff </strong></div> <div> Staffs of community colleges are now to be provided with Provident Funds (PF) and gratuity. The Ministry of Education has made ‘service laws’ according to which staffs who have served for 5-10 years will get half a month’s salary as gratuity annually. Those who have served for 10-15 years will get a month’s salary as gratuity and persons who have served for more than 15 years will get a month and a half’s worth of salary as gratuity annually. The law has been made by the Ministry of Education, guaranteeing services and facilities for community school staffs in accordance with the order of the Supreme Court. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Private Schools not to Increase Staff Salary </strong></div> <div> Though the government increased the salary of government schools’ staffs this fiscal year, private schools have decided not to follow suit. According to the Education Regulation, there is a provision to increase the salary every educational year, not the fiscal year. There is a clear provision in the ‘Organisational Schools Directory’ released by the government that salaries are increased only in the start of the educational year and facilities and services too are fixed by that time. “Salaries cannot be increased in the middle of the educational year,” says chairman of PABSON, Dr Babu Ram Pokharel. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>A New HR Services Enterprise </strong></div> <div> <img alt="BizSupport" src="/userfiles/images/bspl.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 28px;" />A new HR service providing company named ‘Bizsupport’ has been opened with the purpose to serve the wider arena of business and economy by inspiring MBA students to pursue Human Resource Management as their career. Bizsupport is headed by a human resources management practitioner with 22 plus years experience as Head of Human Resources in various organizations like hotels, MNCs, banks etc. Bizsupport tries to deliver its services distinctively from others in terms of quality and efficiency in order to add value to business. It provides services like business process outsourcing, representation direct marketing, HR audit, recruitment executive search, training and development, competency mapping, event management, HR systems, organizational development and PMS (Performance Managanement Systems).</div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-08-05', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Staffs of community colleges are now to be provided with Provident Funds (PF) and gratuity.', 'sortorder' => '1424', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1518', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (29 July - 4 August 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <strong>TU to Improve its Exam Process </strong></div> <div> With a new education calendar that features admission details and examination routine, the examination process in Tribhuwan University is to be improved. The calendar is to be published within a week or two from now. According to Shankar Bhandari, Acting Examination Controller at the TU Examination Controller Department, the new calendar is including students’ admission time, curriculum, exam routine, and details on the publication of results. This is being done to end the current delay in examinations and announcement of results. </div> <div> </div> <div> Likewise, according to the Examination Controller Office, the TU staff will be working from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm to announce results on time and their salary too will be increased accordingly. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>6th Malaysian Education Fair </strong></div> <div> Scholars’ Choice Pvt. Ltd. organised the 6th Malaysia Education Fair in Nepal Pragya Prathisthan, Kathmandu on July 26 and July 27. The two-day fair was organised with the help of the Malaysian Embassy in Nepal. Various Malaysian Universities participated in the fair which was supposed to be beneficial for students seeking information regarding necessary details for higher studies, educational environment and the educational policies in Malaysia. </div> <div> </div> <div> According to Scholar Choice Pvt. Ltd., it’s easy to take a degree from UK, Australia, America and other countries after studying in Malaysian universities. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>2nd White House Inter-College B-Fiesta </strong></div> <div> Himalayan White House College is organising its second ‘Inter College B-Fiesta 2013’. The fiesta is being held on August 16 and 17 in Trade Tower, Thapathali and is a competition among Bachelors and Masters Students of Management. According to Yubraj Ghimire, CEO of White House College, the fiesta is a medium to explore talent within management students. “Students will be awarded according to their skills and talent,” he says. There will be a Management Quiz, Arts and Fashion Show and other competitions regarding management. </div> <div> </div> <div> Meanwhile, the college is also organizing its (third) ‘Nationwide Science Exhibition-2013’. Organisers hope to motivate higher secondary students towards Science and Technology through this event. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Uniformed Students in Parks and Cinema Halls Arrested </strong></div> <div> High school students found in cinema halls, shopping malls, restaurants, hotels, parks and other places for amusement are being arrested by the police. The Higher Secondary Schools Investigation Committee decided, in a meeting on Friday, to inform the District Administrative office to regulate the +2 code of conduct made by the government. According to committee member Suprabhat Bhandari, arrested students will be taken to the ward police station and will be handed to their parents later. According to the code of conduct, students found bunking classes, smoking and drinking in school uniform will be fined Rs 500 to Rs 5000 and can be restricted from giving board exams. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Healthy Schools Seminar at Nirvana </strong></div> <div> Nirvana Wellness Centre organized a Healthy Schools Seminar on Child Health on 20th July with a view to raise awareness about Children’s Health. Representatives from various schools and New Parents were present in the event. The programme focused on different aspects of child health with a series of presentations and interactions from Child Health Experts. Programme was emphasized on the fact that a balanced diet and active lifestyle plays a key role in a child being healthy. With its motto, Health and Beyond, Nirvana Wellness Centre says to continue to organize healthy living seminars in the future for a Healthy Society.</div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-29', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'With a new education calendar that features admission details and examination routine, the examination process in Tribhuwan University is to be improved.', 'sortorder' => '1379', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1430', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (15-21 July 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <img alt="Vice Chairman of the CPN (UML) Bamdev Gautam" src="/userfiles/images/bschool.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; width: 300px; height: 180px;" /></div> <div> <strong>B School Ranking & Awards in the Offing </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> New Business Age Pvt Ltd is organizing ‘Everest Bank National Business School Rating-Ranking- Awards’ for the first time in Nepal. Various streams under management including Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA), Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelors in Hotel Management (BHM) are being rated on various grounds. The publication house has already organized rating of Higher Secondary School and awarded top ten schools from the country. Similarly the award function of B Schools will reward the best schools for hospitality, management and tourism studies. A committee has been formed for the evaluation of best schools under the leadership of Prof Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhary, former Dean of Symbiosis International University, Pune, India. After this, the experts from education and business sectors would rate the schools on various grounds. The B Schools would be ranked on the basis of recognition, affiliation, global and local tie-up of the institute, scope and frequency of updating syllabus, tools and communication, practical inputs and best practices and alumni and industry network as given by B-Schools management. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Best and Weak Teachers to be Identified </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> With an aim to improve the education quality of community schools, teachers working there are planned to be categorised as best and weak and the name lists will be made public through a web-site. The teacher ranking is being done on the basis of average student pass out rate of a particular district. </div> <div> According to Tek Narayan Pandey, Director at Department of Education, best teachers from the list will be encouraged and awarded by District Education Office while teachers who have fallen in weak category will get an opportunity for self improvement. However, Vice- president of Nepal Teachers’ Union, Purna Joshi claimed that this will diminish the confidence of teachers. “Rather than comparing, weaknesses of teachers should be identified and they should be given chance to improve,” he said. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Excursion Turned into a Noble Deed </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> The Principal and 32 students from Chonbuk National University of South Korea extended financial help of Rs 71 thousand to Kopila Basyal, a 12th standard student of Mohan Kanya Higher Secondary School, Palpa. Group’s visit to Nepal during summer vacations resulted into taking Basyal to South Koera for Higher studies. Deepak Prasad Gyanwali, Principal of the school, said that the group has also provided two sets of computers and other accessories for the better learning of the children. Similarly regarding the extra curricular activities they provided taekwondo training, knowledge related to science laboratory, dance and music training and different sports guidance to the students as a part of cultural exchange. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Adikavi Bhanubhakta Award to Karmacharya </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> Senior litterateur, Madhavlal Karmacharya bagged this year’s Adikavi Bhanubhakta Award conferred by The Nepali Education Council. Rastrakavi Madhav Prasad Ghimire handed over the award to 87-year-old litterateur Karmacharya amidst a programme on the occasion of commencement of the Bhanu Second Centenary on July 13. The award is worth Rs 101,111.</div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-15', 'modified' => '2013-07-15', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'New Business Age Pvt Ltd is organizing ‘Everest Bank National Business School Rating-Ranking- Awards’ for the first time in Nepal.', 'sortorder' => '1292', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1359', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Seminar On FPGA Held', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The Xilinx Research Laboratory (XRLab) at the department of Electronics Engineering College in Sanepa organised a seminar on ‘Field –programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Technology and its role in electronics engineering in Nepal on July 3 at premises of the Sagarmatha Engineering College and Nepal Engineering College. Faculty members of the Department of Electronics Engineering of various colleges affiliated to various universities as well as colleges affiliated to Tribhuvan University (TU) and Purbanchal University (PU) participated in the programme.</span></p> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The Xilinx Research Laboratory (XRLab) at the department of Electronics Engineering College in Sanepa organised a seminar on ‘Field –programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Technology', 'sortorder' => '1221', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1358', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Validation Event @ TBC', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The British College (TBC) successfully hosted a validation event with the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. In the event, CEO of the TBC Rajen Kandel said, “TBC will have at least 10% international students and it is now planning to expand its campuses to at least two other countries in Asia which will allow its students to complete the degrees at various international locations. Mike Welsh, the principal of the TBC said, “We are extremely delighted at the level of support provided by UWE to the college and staff. We are working together with UWE to make the TBC a centre of international excellence in south Asia.”</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The British College (TBC) successfully hosted a validation event with the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol.', 'sortorder' => '1220', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1357', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Academy’s Book Expo Concludes', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The literary exhibition organised by the Nepal Academy on the occasion of its 56th anniversary concluded on July 4. Books worth Rs 800,000 were sold in the exhibition, according to the organisers. Books of Nepali, Maithali, Bhojpuri, Limbu, Emglish and Hindi languages were showcased in the exhibition.</span></p> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The literary exhibition organised by the Nepal Academy on the occasion of its 56th anniversary concluded on July 4.', 'sortorder' => '1219', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1356', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'TU Published BBS First Year Result', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Tribhuvan University Office of the controller of examination, Balkhu has published the results of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBS) First Year-2069 exams. The exams were held on Sharwan-Bhadra 2069. </span></p> <p> Result Summary as follows </p> <p> Applicants : 44,584 </p> <p> Appeared : 43,565 </p> <p> Passed : 5,328 </p> <p> Failed : 33,479 </p> <p> Absent : 1,019 </p> <p> Failed and Partially Absent : 4,536 </p> <p> Expelled : 174 </p> <p> Withheld : 48 </p> <p> Passed Percentage : 12.23</p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Tribhuvan University Office of the controller of examination, Balkhu has published the results of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBS) First Year-2069', 'sortorder' => '1218', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1355', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Awareness Campaign Of CEDB In The Capital', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Clean Energy Development Bank (CEDB) organised an awareness campaign in various schools of the capital on July 1. The programme was organised to spread awareness regarding environmental degradation and its projected impacts through education, says CEDB in a press release. As the part of the campaign, CEDB interacted with more than 2000 students of Rupy’s International School, N.K. Singh Memorial EPS School, St Mary’s School, Kanya Sanskritik Madhyamik School, Durbar High School, St. Xavier’s School, Mount Glory School and Jana Prabhat School. This campaign nurtured environmental awareness and eco-conscious habits primarily among the students through classroom presentation of the prevailing environmental challenges faced by the countries around the globe and particularly Nepal, their impact, and individual solutions to address the threat.</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Clean Energy Development Bank (CEDB) organised an awareness campaign in various schools of the capital on July 1.', 'sortorder' => '1217', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1272', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => '10th Natiuonal Technologoical Festival', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Locus 2013, a group of fourth batch students of electronics and computer and electrical faculty organised the 10th National Technological Festival on June 28 at the premises of Pulchowk Campus. The three-day event was based on the theme of ‘Engineering Rural Development’. The exhibition of various hardware, software and electronics also took place in the programme. The festival was inaugurated by Anadnda Raj Khanal, the Director of Nepal Telecommunicatoions Authority (NTA), Prof Dr Subarna Shakya and Professor Timila Yami, assistant deans at the Institute of Engineering (IOE).</span></p> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Locus 2013, a group of fourth batch students of electronics and computer and electrical faculty organised the 10th National Technological Festival on June 28 at the premises of Pulchowk Campus.', 'sortorder' => '1134', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1271', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'NSU Demands FSU Polls', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The Nepal Student Union (NSU) affiliated with the Nepali Congress continued its relay hunger strike in front of the office of the vice chancellor of the Tribhuwan University demanding the date for the Free Student Union (FSU) elections at the earliest. NSU spokesperson UP Lamichane told The Corporate that they would organise more stringent protests if the demand is not addressed immediately. We will stage fast-unto-death if the TU fails to announce the date for polls right away, he said. The protesting students have also demanded that the TU implement its academic calendar in its affiliated colleges. The NSU has been carrying out relay strike at VC office gate for last four days.</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The Nepal Student Union (NSU) affiliated with the Nepali Congress continued its relay hunger strike in front of the office of the vice chancellor of the Tribhuwan University demanding the date for the Free Student Union (FSU) elections at the earliest.', 'sortorder' => '1133', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1270', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Creative Writing Course', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">‘Wordmill: Creative Writing Workshops on Fiction and Non- Fiction’ has been concluded on June 29 in Kathmandu. The workshop was organized by Quixote’s Cove and was held at Thames International College in Old Baneshwor on Saturday. Noted writer Samrat Upadhyay along with two American writers Trevor Mackesey and John Thomas Howard shared their writing experiences in the workshop. Over 35 participated in the workshop.</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => '‘Wordmill: Creative Writing Workshops on Fiction and Non- Fiction’ has been concluded on June 29 in Kathmandu.', 'sortorder' => '1132', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1228', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Ashim Scored Highest Marks In SLC', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> Asim Ghimire (symbol number 0044365- I), student of the Birtamod-based Little Flowers English Boarding Secondary School, Jhapa secured 93.87 percent in the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination 2013.<br /> <br /> </p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'new business age biz news news & articles, biz news news & articles from new business age nepal, biz news headlines from nepal, current and latest biz news news from nepal, economic news from nepal, nepali biz news economic news and events, ongoing biz news news of nepal', 'description' => 'new business age biz news news & articles, biz news news & articles from new business age nepal, biz news headlines from nepal, current and latest biz news news from nepal, economic news from nepal, nepali biz news economic news and events, ongoing biz news news of nepal', 'sortorder' => '1090', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1227', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Robots For Sanitising Kathmandu', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <img alt="" height="144" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XDuvQBtJWpw/UdE9fUrPVqE/AAAAAAAAAVc/VKSgpYmJ9gM/s144-c/July1201310.jpg" width="144" /><br /> Advanced College of Engineering and Management is organising event called sanitizing Kathmandu in the capital this week. As a preparation for the event, Advanced Robotics Club (ARC) has been organising a three-day training programme at Advanced College of Engineering and Management. The event will focus on use of robotics to inform students about process of managing waste of the city, say organizers. In the programme, around 15 student will compete to win by using robots. Students will have to collect table tennis balls as waste, materials using their machines. Organisers claim that the event is an effort to enhance practical knowledge of the students. 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According to organisers, the drama will be staged at the KU Auditorium, Dhulikhel on 2nd and 3rd September and at the Village Theatre in Uttar Dhoka on 6th and 7th September. Tickets are available at the Ekta Book Centre. Producer Ian Raitt says, “We will present the Mahabharata Part 3 – The War and complete a cycle of dramas presented by the school which began in 2008.” Tickets are priced at Rs 100 for students and Rs 300 for adults.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">UGC to Introduce a New Education Policy</span></strong></div> <div> The University Grants Commission (UGC) is gearing up to introduce a new higher education policy that will help develop universities in Nepal as learning centres. The UGC will form a policy that will boost the quality of university education in Nepal, according to UGC Chairman Ganesh Man Gurung. A discussion was held last week on a preliminary draft formulated by the Commission in the capital. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Job Mela at Don Bosco</span></strong></div> <div> <img alt="KDBC" src="/userfiles/images/kdbc.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 125px; height: 26px;" />Kathmandu Don Bosco College (KDBC) has organised a job placement day on August 24 at its college premises in Kathmandu. The event was targeted at the students of the college to help explore employment opportunities. Some international and national corporate houses such as Chaudhary Group, Sitoula Group and JF Group among others participated in the programme.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">ECAN Celebrates 17th Anniversary </span></strong></div> <div> <img alt="ECAN" src="/userfiles/images/ecan.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 90px; height: 88px;" />Educational Consultancy Association of Nepal (ECAN) celebrated its 17th anniversary on Thursday, 29th August. A blood donation programme was organised on the occasion. According to President Rajendra Baral, 42 people donated blood on the occasion. At the programme, Baral said that ECAN is committed to giving fair educational counselling and is determined to improve their shortcomings. President of Nepal Chamber of Commerce Suresh Kumar Basnet, President of Nepal Professors’ Association Rameshwor Upadhayay, ECAN General Secretary Mahesh Babu Timalsina, ECAN Advisor Arun Lamichhane, and Former ECAN President Dipak Gurung were present in the programme. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Nepalis Students Took Part in the ASC Camp 2013</span></strong></div> <div> <img alt="ASC" src="/userfiles/images/asc.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 33px;" />Five students from Nepal participated in the Asian Science Camp 2013 that was held August 25 onward in Japan. Students promising in science were selected for the participation. A five day-long event included discussions and dialogues session among students and top scholars around the world. The programme promoted international friendship and cooperation among the students of Asia, Australia and Oceania. Among more than 200 students from various countries Rishav Acharya, Prayog Koirala, Ishan Bhattarai, Samikshya Shrestha and Swaviman Acharya took part in the event representing their respective education institutions.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-09-02', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Students of Kathmandu University High School will stage a drama based on epic Mahabharata in the first week of the September.', 'sortorder' => '1602', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1609', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (12-18 August 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;"><img alt="KUSOM" src="/userfiles/images/KUSOM.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 125px; height: 126px;" />4th KUSOM Job and Internship Fair </span></strong></div> <div> With the presence of 14 leading companies, the 4th KUSOM Job and Internship Fair (KJIF) took place on August 8, 2013 in KUSOM premises. The event was organized by KJIF team formed under KUSOM Placement Cell.The fair was organized to provide a platform for interaction between graduating students of KUSOM seeking placement or internship and the companies looking for management graduates. The participating companies include Beed Management Pvt. Ltd, Bottlers Nepal Ltd., DHL Express Nepal Ltd. Global IME Bank Ltd. Kailash Bikas Bank Ltd., MAW Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., MC Group of Companies, Nabil Bank Ltd., NIC Asia Bank Ltd., NMB Capital Ltd., Surya Nepal, Triveni Byapar Co. Pvt Ltd., Unilever Nepal Ltd and V-Chitra. It has a mix of banks, manufacturing companies, ad agencies, Research agencies and trading companies. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Short story felicitation to Bhattarai</span></strong></div> <div> This year’s ‘short story felicitation’ is being awarded to writer Pushkar Raj Bhattarai by the Short Story Society (SSS). Bhattarai, who is pursuing a research study in short stories, will be awarded on the occasion of ‘National Short Story Day’ celebrated in the 1st week of Bhadra. The award includes a cash prize of five thousand rupees along with a felicitation letter. The Short Story Society will be organising a special programme for the day with the association of Nepal Academy. The National Short Story Day is celebrated on the fifth day of Bhadra each year.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Book Collection Movement</span></strong></div> <div> The ‘One Book Movement’ has been initiated with the aim to make children’s literature available to rural children. An organisation named ‘Education Nepal’ is starting the movement from August 12. One hundred and twenty volunteers are collecting books from educational institutes and people’s homes to distribute to children in remote districts. At a press meet, Education Nepal informed that their aim is to collect 100,000 books. According to director Prem Bahadur Bohara, the collected books will be distributed in rural areas to students from class 1 to 10. The organisation had distributed 10,000 books to students in Jajarkot and Dolpa last year.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">SLC Supplementary Exams Completed</span></strong></div> <div> The SLC supplementary exams which started in August 4 were completed yesterday. Students who failed in a maximum of two subjects in the SLC exams last year took the exam. Nationwide 111,000 students appeared for the exam. This year, 55,000 students had failed in the Science subject, 50,000 in Mathematics and 31,000 in English.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">2nd ICT Meet-up</span></strong></div> <div> The 2nd KRM Software ICT Meet-Up 2013 took place this Saturday in Kathmandu. The meeting was organised by Prime College and Prime IT Club with a purpose to help students identify best employment opportunities in Information Technology (IT). A large number of IT students and IT institutes were present in the programme. “The programme helps to inform IT students about future opportunities,” Principal of Prime College, Naresh Shrestha, said. The registration fee for the programme was Rs 1, the proceeds of which will be provided to ‘Help Nepal Network’.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Corporate Meet by Nobel Academy</span></strong></div> <div> Nobel Academy, Pokhara organised a meeting with the corporate houses of Pokhara and nearby places last Tuesday. Thirty-five representatives from corporate houses participated in the programme. The programme was organised to develop relationships with corporate houses and to collect suggestions for the human resource needs of corporate houses. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-08-12', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'With the presence of 14 leading companies, the 4th KUSOM Job and Internship Fair (KJIF) took place on August 8, 2013 in KUSOM premises.', 'sortorder' => '1470', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1563', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (5-11 August 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <strong>Committee Formed to Celebrate 8th National Library Day </strong></div> <div> A main organisation committee has been formed in the chairmanship of Narayan Gopal Malego, secretary of the Ministry of Education, to celebrate the 8th National Library Day on Bhadra 15 (August 31st). Bhim Dhwoj Shrestha, chief at the Tribhuwan University’s Central Department of Library and Information Science, has been appointed as Vice-chairman of the committee. The National Library Day has been celebrated annually for the last 7 years to increase awareness about libraries. The committee has decided to celebrate this year’s library day as a weeklong celebration. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>BBA Programmes to have 4th Year </strong></div> <div> The Ministry of Education has directed colleges with Indian university affiliation offering BBA (Bachelor in Business Administration) programmes to extend the programme to 4 years. As the BBA programmes offered in Tribhuwan University (TU) and Kathmandu University (KU) are of 4 years, the ministry has directed colleges with Indian university affiliations to change their programmes to 4-year-programmes too. This step has been taken to maintain the equivalence among students from Nepali universities and Indian universities. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>PF for Community Schools’ Staff </strong></div> <div> Staffs of community colleges are now to be provided with Provident Funds (PF) and gratuity. The Ministry of Education has made ‘service laws’ according to which staffs who have served for 5-10 years will get half a month’s salary as gratuity annually. Those who have served for 10-15 years will get a month’s salary as gratuity and persons who have served for more than 15 years will get a month and a half’s worth of salary as gratuity annually. The law has been made by the Ministry of Education, guaranteeing services and facilities for community school staffs in accordance with the order of the Supreme Court. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Private Schools not to Increase Staff Salary </strong></div> <div> Though the government increased the salary of government schools’ staffs this fiscal year, private schools have decided not to follow suit. According to the Education Regulation, there is a provision to increase the salary every educational year, not the fiscal year. There is a clear provision in the ‘Organisational Schools Directory’ released by the government that salaries are increased only in the start of the educational year and facilities and services too are fixed by that time. “Salaries cannot be increased in the middle of the educational year,” says chairman of PABSON, Dr Babu Ram Pokharel. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>A New HR Services Enterprise </strong></div> <div> <img alt="BizSupport" src="/userfiles/images/bspl.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 28px;" />A new HR service providing company named ‘Bizsupport’ has been opened with the purpose to serve the wider arena of business and economy by inspiring MBA students to pursue Human Resource Management as their career. Bizsupport is headed by a human resources management practitioner with 22 plus years experience as Head of Human Resources in various organizations like hotels, MNCs, banks etc. Bizsupport tries to deliver its services distinctively from others in terms of quality and efficiency in order to add value to business. It provides services like business process outsourcing, representation direct marketing, HR audit, recruitment executive search, training and development, competency mapping, event management, HR systems, organizational development and PMS (Performance Managanement Systems).</div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-08-05', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Staffs of community colleges are now to be provided with Provident Funds (PF) and gratuity.', 'sortorder' => '1424', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1518', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (29 July - 4 August 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <strong>TU to Improve its Exam Process </strong></div> <div> With a new education calendar that features admission details and examination routine, the examination process in Tribhuwan University is to be improved. The calendar is to be published within a week or two from now. According to Shankar Bhandari, Acting Examination Controller at the TU Examination Controller Department, the new calendar is including students’ admission time, curriculum, exam routine, and details on the publication of results. This is being done to end the current delay in examinations and announcement of results. </div> <div> </div> <div> Likewise, according to the Examination Controller Office, the TU staff will be working from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm to announce results on time and their salary too will be increased accordingly. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>6th Malaysian Education Fair </strong></div> <div> Scholars’ Choice Pvt. Ltd. organised the 6th Malaysia Education Fair in Nepal Pragya Prathisthan, Kathmandu on July 26 and July 27. The two-day fair was organised with the help of the Malaysian Embassy in Nepal. Various Malaysian Universities participated in the fair which was supposed to be beneficial for students seeking information regarding necessary details for higher studies, educational environment and the educational policies in Malaysia. </div> <div> </div> <div> According to Scholar Choice Pvt. Ltd., it’s easy to take a degree from UK, Australia, America and other countries after studying in Malaysian universities. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>2nd White House Inter-College B-Fiesta </strong></div> <div> Himalayan White House College is organising its second ‘Inter College B-Fiesta 2013’. The fiesta is being held on August 16 and 17 in Trade Tower, Thapathali and is a competition among Bachelors and Masters Students of Management. According to Yubraj Ghimire, CEO of White House College, the fiesta is a medium to explore talent within management students. “Students will be awarded according to their skills and talent,” he says. There will be a Management Quiz, Arts and Fashion Show and other competitions regarding management. </div> <div> </div> <div> Meanwhile, the college is also organizing its (third) ‘Nationwide Science Exhibition-2013’. Organisers hope to motivate higher secondary students towards Science and Technology through this event. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Uniformed Students in Parks and Cinema Halls Arrested </strong></div> <div> High school students found in cinema halls, shopping malls, restaurants, hotels, parks and other places for amusement are being arrested by the police. The Higher Secondary Schools Investigation Committee decided, in a meeting on Friday, to inform the District Administrative office to regulate the +2 code of conduct made by the government. According to committee member Suprabhat Bhandari, arrested students will be taken to the ward police station and will be handed to their parents later. According to the code of conduct, students found bunking classes, smoking and drinking in school uniform will be fined Rs 500 to Rs 5000 and can be restricted from giving board exams. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Healthy Schools Seminar at Nirvana </strong></div> <div> Nirvana Wellness Centre organized a Healthy Schools Seminar on Child Health on 20th July with a view to raise awareness about Children’s Health. Representatives from various schools and New Parents were present in the event. The programme focused on different aspects of child health with a series of presentations and interactions from Child Health Experts. Programme was emphasized on the fact that a balanced diet and active lifestyle plays a key role in a child being healthy. With its motto, Health and Beyond, Nirvana Wellness Centre says to continue to organize healthy living seminars in the future for a Healthy Society.</div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-29', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'With a new education calendar that features admission details and examination routine, the examination process in Tribhuwan University is to be improved.', 'sortorder' => '1379', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1430', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (15-21 July 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <img alt="Vice Chairman of the CPN (UML) Bamdev Gautam" src="/userfiles/images/bschool.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; width: 300px; height: 180px;" /></div> <div> <strong>B School Ranking & Awards in the Offing </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> New Business Age Pvt Ltd is organizing ‘Everest Bank National Business School Rating-Ranking- Awards’ for the first time in Nepal. Various streams under management including Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA), Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelors in Hotel Management (BHM) are being rated on various grounds. The publication house has already organized rating of Higher Secondary School and awarded top ten schools from the country. Similarly the award function of B Schools will reward the best schools for hospitality, management and tourism studies. A committee has been formed for the evaluation of best schools under the leadership of Prof Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhary, former Dean of Symbiosis International University, Pune, India. After this, the experts from education and business sectors would rate the schools on various grounds. The B Schools would be ranked on the basis of recognition, affiliation, global and local tie-up of the institute, scope and frequency of updating syllabus, tools and communication, practical inputs and best practices and alumni and industry network as given by B-Schools management. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Best and Weak Teachers to be Identified </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> With an aim to improve the education quality of community schools, teachers working there are planned to be categorised as best and weak and the name lists will be made public through a web-site. The teacher ranking is being done on the basis of average student pass out rate of a particular district. </div> <div> According to Tek Narayan Pandey, Director at Department of Education, best teachers from the list will be encouraged and awarded by District Education Office while teachers who have fallen in weak category will get an opportunity for self improvement. However, Vice- president of Nepal Teachers’ Union, Purna Joshi claimed that this will diminish the confidence of teachers. “Rather than comparing, weaknesses of teachers should be identified and they should be given chance to improve,” he said. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Excursion Turned into a Noble Deed </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> The Principal and 32 students from Chonbuk National University of South Korea extended financial help of Rs 71 thousand to Kopila Basyal, a 12th standard student of Mohan Kanya Higher Secondary School, Palpa. Group’s visit to Nepal during summer vacations resulted into taking Basyal to South Koera for Higher studies. Deepak Prasad Gyanwali, Principal of the school, said that the group has also provided two sets of computers and other accessories for the better learning of the children. Similarly regarding the extra curricular activities they provided taekwondo training, knowledge related to science laboratory, dance and music training and different sports guidance to the students as a part of cultural exchange. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Adikavi Bhanubhakta Award to Karmacharya </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> Senior litterateur, Madhavlal Karmacharya bagged this year’s Adikavi Bhanubhakta Award conferred by The Nepali Education Council. Rastrakavi Madhav Prasad Ghimire handed over the award to 87-year-old litterateur Karmacharya amidst a programme on the occasion of commencement of the Bhanu Second Centenary on July 13. The award is worth Rs 101,111.</div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-15', 'modified' => '2013-07-15', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'New Business Age Pvt Ltd is organizing ‘Everest Bank National Business School Rating-Ranking- Awards’ for the first time in Nepal.', 'sortorder' => '1292', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1359', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Seminar On FPGA Held', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The Xilinx Research Laboratory (XRLab) at the department of Electronics Engineering College in Sanepa organised a seminar on ‘Field –programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Technology and its role in electronics engineering in Nepal on July 3 at premises of the Sagarmatha Engineering College and Nepal Engineering College. Faculty members of the Department of Electronics Engineering of various colleges affiliated to various universities as well as colleges affiliated to Tribhuvan University (TU) and Purbanchal University (PU) participated in the programme.</span></p> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The Xilinx Research Laboratory (XRLab) at the department of Electronics Engineering College in Sanepa organised a seminar on ‘Field –programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Technology', 'sortorder' => '1221', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1358', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Validation Event @ TBC', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The British College (TBC) successfully hosted a validation event with the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. In the event, CEO of the TBC Rajen Kandel said, “TBC will have at least 10% international students and it is now planning to expand its campuses to at least two other countries in Asia which will allow its students to complete the degrees at various international locations. Mike Welsh, the principal of the TBC said, “We are extremely delighted at the level of support provided by UWE to the college and staff. We are working together with UWE to make the TBC a centre of international excellence in south Asia.”</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The British College (TBC) successfully hosted a validation event with the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol.', 'sortorder' => '1220', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1357', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Academy’s Book Expo Concludes', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The literary exhibition organised by the Nepal Academy on the occasion of its 56th anniversary concluded on July 4. Books worth Rs 800,000 were sold in the exhibition, according to the organisers. Books of Nepali, Maithali, Bhojpuri, Limbu, Emglish and Hindi languages were showcased in the exhibition.</span></p> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The literary exhibition organised by the Nepal Academy on the occasion of its 56th anniversary concluded on July 4.', 'sortorder' => '1219', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1356', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'TU Published BBS First Year Result', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Tribhuvan University Office of the controller of examination, Balkhu has published the results of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBS) First Year-2069 exams. The exams were held on Sharwan-Bhadra 2069. </span></p> <p> Result Summary as follows </p> <p> Applicants : 44,584 </p> <p> Appeared : 43,565 </p> <p> Passed : 5,328 </p> <p> Failed : 33,479 </p> <p> Absent : 1,019 </p> <p> Failed and Partially Absent : 4,536 </p> <p> Expelled : 174 </p> <p> Withheld : 48 </p> <p> Passed Percentage : 12.23</p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Tribhuvan University Office of the controller of examination, Balkhu has published the results of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBS) First Year-2069', 'sortorder' => '1218', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1355', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Awareness Campaign Of CEDB In The Capital', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Clean Energy Development Bank (CEDB) organised an awareness campaign in various schools of the capital on July 1. The programme was organised to spread awareness regarding environmental degradation and its projected impacts through education, says CEDB in a press release. As the part of the campaign, CEDB interacted with more than 2000 students of Rupy’s International School, N.K. Singh Memorial EPS School, St Mary’s School, Kanya Sanskritik Madhyamik School, Durbar High School, St. Xavier’s School, Mount Glory School and Jana Prabhat School. This campaign nurtured environmental awareness and eco-conscious habits primarily among the students through classroom presentation of the prevailing environmental challenges faced by the countries around the globe and particularly Nepal, their impact, and individual solutions to address the threat.</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Clean Energy Development Bank (CEDB) organised an awareness campaign in various schools of the capital on July 1.', 'sortorder' => '1217', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1272', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => '10th Natiuonal Technologoical Festival', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Locus 2013, a group of fourth batch students of electronics and computer and electrical faculty organised the 10th National Technological Festival on June 28 at the premises of Pulchowk Campus. The three-day event was based on the theme of ‘Engineering Rural Development’. The exhibition of various hardware, software and electronics also took place in the programme. The festival was inaugurated by Anadnda Raj Khanal, the Director of Nepal Telecommunicatoions Authority (NTA), Prof Dr Subarna Shakya and Professor Timila Yami, assistant deans at the Institute of Engineering (IOE).</span></p> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Locus 2013, a group of fourth batch students of electronics and computer and electrical faculty organised the 10th National Technological Festival on June 28 at the premises of Pulchowk Campus.', 'sortorder' => '1134', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1271', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'NSU Demands FSU Polls', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The Nepal Student Union (NSU) affiliated with the Nepali Congress continued its relay hunger strike in front of the office of the vice chancellor of the Tribhuwan University demanding the date for the Free Student Union (FSU) elections at the earliest. NSU spokesperson UP Lamichane told The Corporate that they would organise more stringent protests if the demand is not addressed immediately. We will stage fast-unto-death if the TU fails to announce the date for polls right away, he said. The protesting students have also demanded that the TU implement its academic calendar in its affiliated colleges. The NSU has been carrying out relay strike at VC office gate for last four days.</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The Nepal Student Union (NSU) affiliated with the Nepali Congress continued its relay hunger strike in front of the office of the vice chancellor of the Tribhuwan University demanding the date for the Free Student Union (FSU) elections at the earliest.', 'sortorder' => '1133', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1270', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Creative Writing Course', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">‘Wordmill: Creative Writing Workshops on Fiction and Non- Fiction’ has been concluded on June 29 in Kathmandu. The workshop was organized by Quixote’s Cove and was held at Thames International College in Old Baneshwor on Saturday. Noted writer Samrat Upadhyay along with two American writers Trevor Mackesey and John Thomas Howard shared their writing experiences in the workshop. Over 35 participated in the workshop.</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => '‘Wordmill: Creative Writing Workshops on Fiction and Non- Fiction’ has been concluded on June 29 in Kathmandu.', 'sortorder' => '1132', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1228', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Ashim Scored Highest Marks In SLC', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> Asim Ghimire (symbol number 0044365- I), student of the Birtamod-based Little Flowers English Boarding Secondary School, Jhapa secured 93.87 percent in the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination 2013.<br /> <br /> </p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'new business age biz news news & articles, biz news news & articles from new business age nepal, biz news headlines from nepal, current and latest biz news news from nepal, economic news from nepal, nepali biz news economic news and events, ongoing biz news news of nepal', 'description' => 'new business age biz news news & articles, biz news news & articles from new business age nepal, biz news headlines from nepal, current and latest biz news news from nepal, economic news from nepal, nepali biz news economic news and events, ongoing biz news news of nepal', 'sortorder' => '1090', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1227', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Robots For Sanitising Kathmandu', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <img alt="" height="144" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XDuvQBtJWpw/UdE9fUrPVqE/AAAAAAAAAVc/VKSgpYmJ9gM/s144-c/July1201310.jpg" width="144" /><br /> Advanced College of Engineering and Management is organising event called sanitizing Kathmandu in the capital this week. As a preparation for the event, Advanced Robotics Club (ARC) has been organising a three-day training programme at Advanced College of Engineering and Management. The event will focus on use of robotics to inform students about process of managing waste of the city, say organizers. In the programme, around 15 student will compete to win by using robots. Students will have to collect table tennis balls as waste, materials using their machines. Organisers claim that the event is an effort to enhance practical knowledge of the students. 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According to organisers, the drama will be staged at the KU Auditorium, Dhulikhel on 2nd and 3rd September and at the Village Theatre in Uttar Dhoka on 6th and 7th September. Tickets are available at the Ekta Book Centre. Producer Ian Raitt says, “We will present the Mahabharata Part 3 – The War and complete a cycle of dramas presented by the school which began in 2008.” Tickets are priced at Rs 100 for students and Rs 300 for adults.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">UGC to Introduce a New Education Policy</span></strong></div> <div> The University Grants Commission (UGC) is gearing up to introduce a new higher education policy that will help develop universities in Nepal as learning centres. The UGC will form a policy that will boost the quality of university education in Nepal, according to UGC Chairman Ganesh Man Gurung. A discussion was held last week on a preliminary draft formulated by the Commission in the capital. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Job Mela at Don Bosco</span></strong></div> <div> <img alt="KDBC" src="/userfiles/images/kdbc.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 125px; height: 26px;" />Kathmandu Don Bosco College (KDBC) has organised a job placement day on August 24 at its college premises in Kathmandu. The event was targeted at the students of the college to help explore employment opportunities. Some international and national corporate houses such as Chaudhary Group, Sitoula Group and JF Group among others participated in the programme.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">ECAN Celebrates 17th Anniversary </span></strong></div> <div> <img alt="ECAN" src="/userfiles/images/ecan.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 90px; height: 88px;" />Educational Consultancy Association of Nepal (ECAN) celebrated its 17th anniversary on Thursday, 29th August. A blood donation programme was organised on the occasion. According to President Rajendra Baral, 42 people donated blood on the occasion. At the programme, Baral said that ECAN is committed to giving fair educational counselling and is determined to improve their shortcomings. President of Nepal Chamber of Commerce Suresh Kumar Basnet, President of Nepal Professors’ Association Rameshwor Upadhayay, ECAN General Secretary Mahesh Babu Timalsina, ECAN Advisor Arun Lamichhane, and Former ECAN President Dipak Gurung were present in the programme. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Nepalis Students Took Part in the ASC Camp 2013</span></strong></div> <div> <img alt="ASC" src="/userfiles/images/asc.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 33px;" />Five students from Nepal participated in the Asian Science Camp 2013 that was held August 25 onward in Japan. Students promising in science were selected for the participation. A five day-long event included discussions and dialogues session among students and top scholars around the world. The programme promoted international friendship and cooperation among the students of Asia, Australia and Oceania. Among more than 200 students from various countries Rishav Acharya, Prayog Koirala, Ishan Bhattarai, Samikshya Shrestha and Swaviman Acharya took part in the event representing their respective education institutions.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-09-02', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Students of Kathmandu University High School will stage a drama based on epic Mahabharata in the first week of the September.', 'sortorder' => '1602', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1609', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (12-18 August 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;"><img alt="KUSOM" src="/userfiles/images/KUSOM.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 125px; height: 126px;" />4th KUSOM Job and Internship Fair </span></strong></div> <div> With the presence of 14 leading companies, the 4th KUSOM Job and Internship Fair (KJIF) took place on August 8, 2013 in KUSOM premises. The event was organized by KJIF team formed under KUSOM Placement Cell.The fair was organized to provide a platform for interaction between graduating students of KUSOM seeking placement or internship and the companies looking for management graduates. The participating companies include Beed Management Pvt. Ltd, Bottlers Nepal Ltd., DHL Express Nepal Ltd. Global IME Bank Ltd. Kailash Bikas Bank Ltd., MAW Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., MC Group of Companies, Nabil Bank Ltd., NIC Asia Bank Ltd., NMB Capital Ltd., Surya Nepal, Triveni Byapar Co. Pvt Ltd., Unilever Nepal Ltd and V-Chitra. It has a mix of banks, manufacturing companies, ad agencies, Research agencies and trading companies. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Short story felicitation to Bhattarai</span></strong></div> <div> This year’s ‘short story felicitation’ is being awarded to writer Pushkar Raj Bhattarai by the Short Story Society (SSS). Bhattarai, who is pursuing a research study in short stories, will be awarded on the occasion of ‘National Short Story Day’ celebrated in the 1st week of Bhadra. The award includes a cash prize of five thousand rupees along with a felicitation letter. The Short Story Society will be organising a special programme for the day with the association of Nepal Academy. The National Short Story Day is celebrated on the fifth day of Bhadra each year.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Book Collection Movement</span></strong></div> <div> The ‘One Book Movement’ has been initiated with the aim to make children’s literature available to rural children. An organisation named ‘Education Nepal’ is starting the movement from August 12. One hundred and twenty volunteers are collecting books from educational institutes and people’s homes to distribute to children in remote districts. At a press meet, Education Nepal informed that their aim is to collect 100,000 books. According to director Prem Bahadur Bohara, the collected books will be distributed in rural areas to students from class 1 to 10. The organisation had distributed 10,000 books to students in Jajarkot and Dolpa last year.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">SLC Supplementary Exams Completed</span></strong></div> <div> The SLC supplementary exams which started in August 4 were completed yesterday. Students who failed in a maximum of two subjects in the SLC exams last year took the exam. Nationwide 111,000 students appeared for the exam. This year, 55,000 students had failed in the Science subject, 50,000 in Mathematics and 31,000 in English.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">2nd ICT Meet-up</span></strong></div> <div> The 2nd KRM Software ICT Meet-Up 2013 took place this Saturday in Kathmandu. The meeting was organised by Prime College and Prime IT Club with a purpose to help students identify best employment opportunities in Information Technology (IT). A large number of IT students and IT institutes were present in the programme. “The programme helps to inform IT students about future opportunities,” Principal of Prime College, Naresh Shrestha, said. The registration fee for the programme was Rs 1, the proceeds of which will be provided to ‘Help Nepal Network’.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Corporate Meet by Nobel Academy</span></strong></div> <div> Nobel Academy, Pokhara organised a meeting with the corporate houses of Pokhara and nearby places last Tuesday. Thirty-five representatives from corporate houses participated in the programme. The programme was organised to develop relationships with corporate houses and to collect suggestions for the human resource needs of corporate houses. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-08-12', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'With the presence of 14 leading companies, the 4th KUSOM Job and Internship Fair (KJIF) took place on August 8, 2013 in KUSOM premises.', 'sortorder' => '1470', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1563', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (5-11 August 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <strong>Committee Formed to Celebrate 8th National Library Day </strong></div> <div> A main organisation committee has been formed in the chairmanship of Narayan Gopal Malego, secretary of the Ministry of Education, to celebrate the 8th National Library Day on Bhadra 15 (August 31st). Bhim Dhwoj Shrestha, chief at the Tribhuwan University’s Central Department of Library and Information Science, has been appointed as Vice-chairman of the committee. The National Library Day has been celebrated annually for the last 7 years to increase awareness about libraries. The committee has decided to celebrate this year’s library day as a weeklong celebration. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>BBA Programmes to have 4th Year </strong></div> <div> The Ministry of Education has directed colleges with Indian university affiliation offering BBA (Bachelor in Business Administration) programmes to extend the programme to 4 years. As the BBA programmes offered in Tribhuwan University (TU) and Kathmandu University (KU) are of 4 years, the ministry has directed colleges with Indian university affiliations to change their programmes to 4-year-programmes too. This step has been taken to maintain the equivalence among students from Nepali universities and Indian universities. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>PF for Community Schools’ Staff </strong></div> <div> Staffs of community colleges are now to be provided with Provident Funds (PF) and gratuity. The Ministry of Education has made ‘service laws’ according to which staffs who have served for 5-10 years will get half a month’s salary as gratuity annually. Those who have served for 10-15 years will get a month’s salary as gratuity and persons who have served for more than 15 years will get a month and a half’s worth of salary as gratuity annually. The law has been made by the Ministry of Education, guaranteeing services and facilities for community school staffs in accordance with the order of the Supreme Court. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Private Schools not to Increase Staff Salary </strong></div> <div> Though the government increased the salary of government schools’ staffs this fiscal year, private schools have decided not to follow suit. According to the Education Regulation, there is a provision to increase the salary every educational year, not the fiscal year. There is a clear provision in the ‘Organisational Schools Directory’ released by the government that salaries are increased only in the start of the educational year and facilities and services too are fixed by that time. “Salaries cannot be increased in the middle of the educational year,” says chairman of PABSON, Dr Babu Ram Pokharel. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>A New HR Services Enterprise </strong></div> <div> <img alt="BizSupport" src="/userfiles/images/bspl.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 28px;" />A new HR service providing company named ‘Bizsupport’ has been opened with the purpose to serve the wider arena of business and economy by inspiring MBA students to pursue Human Resource Management as their career. Bizsupport is headed by a human resources management practitioner with 22 plus years experience as Head of Human Resources in various organizations like hotels, MNCs, banks etc. Bizsupport tries to deliver its services distinctively from others in terms of quality and efficiency in order to add value to business. It provides services like business process outsourcing, representation direct marketing, HR audit, recruitment executive search, training and development, competency mapping, event management, HR systems, organizational development and PMS (Performance Managanement Systems).</div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-08-05', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Staffs of community colleges are now to be provided with Provident Funds (PF) and gratuity.', 'sortorder' => '1424', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1518', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (29 July - 4 August 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <strong>TU to Improve its Exam Process </strong></div> <div> With a new education calendar that features admission details and examination routine, the examination process in Tribhuwan University is to be improved. The calendar is to be published within a week or two from now. According to Shankar Bhandari, Acting Examination Controller at the TU Examination Controller Department, the new calendar is including students’ admission time, curriculum, exam routine, and details on the publication of results. This is being done to end the current delay in examinations and announcement of results. </div> <div> </div> <div> Likewise, according to the Examination Controller Office, the TU staff will be working from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm to announce results on time and their salary too will be increased accordingly. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>6th Malaysian Education Fair </strong></div> <div> Scholars’ Choice Pvt. Ltd. organised the 6th Malaysia Education Fair in Nepal Pragya Prathisthan, Kathmandu on July 26 and July 27. The two-day fair was organised with the help of the Malaysian Embassy in Nepal. Various Malaysian Universities participated in the fair which was supposed to be beneficial for students seeking information regarding necessary details for higher studies, educational environment and the educational policies in Malaysia. </div> <div> </div> <div> According to Scholar Choice Pvt. Ltd., it’s easy to take a degree from UK, Australia, America and other countries after studying in Malaysian universities. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>2nd White House Inter-College B-Fiesta </strong></div> <div> Himalayan White House College is organising its second ‘Inter College B-Fiesta 2013’. The fiesta is being held on August 16 and 17 in Trade Tower, Thapathali and is a competition among Bachelors and Masters Students of Management. According to Yubraj Ghimire, CEO of White House College, the fiesta is a medium to explore talent within management students. “Students will be awarded according to their skills and talent,” he says. There will be a Management Quiz, Arts and Fashion Show and other competitions regarding management. </div> <div> </div> <div> Meanwhile, the college is also organizing its (third) ‘Nationwide Science Exhibition-2013’. Organisers hope to motivate higher secondary students towards Science and Technology through this event. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Uniformed Students in Parks and Cinema Halls Arrested </strong></div> <div> High school students found in cinema halls, shopping malls, restaurants, hotels, parks and other places for amusement are being arrested by the police. The Higher Secondary Schools Investigation Committee decided, in a meeting on Friday, to inform the District Administrative office to regulate the +2 code of conduct made by the government. According to committee member Suprabhat Bhandari, arrested students will be taken to the ward police station and will be handed to their parents later. According to the code of conduct, students found bunking classes, smoking and drinking in school uniform will be fined Rs 500 to Rs 5000 and can be restricted from giving board exams. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Healthy Schools Seminar at Nirvana </strong></div> <div> Nirvana Wellness Centre organized a Healthy Schools Seminar on Child Health on 20th July with a view to raise awareness about Children’s Health. Representatives from various schools and New Parents were present in the event. The programme focused on different aspects of child health with a series of presentations and interactions from Child Health Experts. Programme was emphasized on the fact that a balanced diet and active lifestyle plays a key role in a child being healthy. With its motto, Health and Beyond, Nirvana Wellness Centre says to continue to organize healthy living seminars in the future for a Healthy Society.</div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-29', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'With a new education calendar that features admission details and examination routine, the examination process in Tribhuwan University is to be improved.', 'sortorder' => '1379', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1430', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (15-21 July 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <img alt="Vice Chairman of the CPN (UML) Bamdev Gautam" src="/userfiles/images/bschool.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; width: 300px; height: 180px;" /></div> <div> <strong>B School Ranking & Awards in the Offing </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> New Business Age Pvt Ltd is organizing ‘Everest Bank National Business School Rating-Ranking- Awards’ for the first time in Nepal. Various streams under management including Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA), Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelors in Hotel Management (BHM) are being rated on various grounds. The publication house has already organized rating of Higher Secondary School and awarded top ten schools from the country. Similarly the award function of B Schools will reward the best schools for hospitality, management and tourism studies. A committee has been formed for the evaluation of best schools under the leadership of Prof Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhary, former Dean of Symbiosis International University, Pune, India. After this, the experts from education and business sectors would rate the schools on various grounds. The B Schools would be ranked on the basis of recognition, affiliation, global and local tie-up of the institute, scope and frequency of updating syllabus, tools and communication, practical inputs and best practices and alumni and industry network as given by B-Schools management. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Best and Weak Teachers to be Identified </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> With an aim to improve the education quality of community schools, teachers working there are planned to be categorised as best and weak and the name lists will be made public through a web-site. The teacher ranking is being done on the basis of average student pass out rate of a particular district. </div> <div> According to Tek Narayan Pandey, Director at Department of Education, best teachers from the list will be encouraged and awarded by District Education Office while teachers who have fallen in weak category will get an opportunity for self improvement. However, Vice- president of Nepal Teachers’ Union, Purna Joshi claimed that this will diminish the confidence of teachers. “Rather than comparing, weaknesses of teachers should be identified and they should be given chance to improve,” he said. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Excursion Turned into a Noble Deed </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> The Principal and 32 students from Chonbuk National University of South Korea extended financial help of Rs 71 thousand to Kopila Basyal, a 12th standard student of Mohan Kanya Higher Secondary School, Palpa. Group’s visit to Nepal during summer vacations resulted into taking Basyal to South Koera for Higher studies. Deepak Prasad Gyanwali, Principal of the school, said that the group has also provided two sets of computers and other accessories for the better learning of the children. Similarly regarding the extra curricular activities they provided taekwondo training, knowledge related to science laboratory, dance and music training and different sports guidance to the students as a part of cultural exchange. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Adikavi Bhanubhakta Award to Karmacharya </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> Senior litterateur, Madhavlal Karmacharya bagged this year’s Adikavi Bhanubhakta Award conferred by The Nepali Education Council. Rastrakavi Madhav Prasad Ghimire handed over the award to 87-year-old litterateur Karmacharya amidst a programme on the occasion of commencement of the Bhanu Second Centenary on July 13. The award is worth Rs 101,111.</div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-15', 'modified' => '2013-07-15', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'New Business Age Pvt Ltd is organizing ‘Everest Bank National Business School Rating-Ranking- Awards’ for the first time in Nepal.', 'sortorder' => '1292', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1359', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Seminar On FPGA Held', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The Xilinx Research Laboratory (XRLab) at the department of Electronics Engineering College in Sanepa organised a seminar on ‘Field –programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Technology and its role in electronics engineering in Nepal on July 3 at premises of the Sagarmatha Engineering College and Nepal Engineering College. Faculty members of the Department of Electronics Engineering of various colleges affiliated to various universities as well as colleges affiliated to Tribhuvan University (TU) and Purbanchal University (PU) participated in the programme.</span></p> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The Xilinx Research Laboratory (XRLab) at the department of Electronics Engineering College in Sanepa organised a seminar on ‘Field –programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Technology', 'sortorder' => '1221', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1358', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Validation Event @ TBC', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The British College (TBC) successfully hosted a validation event with the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. In the event, CEO of the TBC Rajen Kandel said, “TBC will have at least 10% international students and it is now planning to expand its campuses to at least two other countries in Asia which will allow its students to complete the degrees at various international locations. Mike Welsh, the principal of the TBC said, “We are extremely delighted at the level of support provided by UWE to the college and staff. We are working together with UWE to make the TBC a centre of international excellence in south Asia.”</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The British College (TBC) successfully hosted a validation event with the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol.', 'sortorder' => '1220', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1357', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Academy’s Book Expo Concludes', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The literary exhibition organised by the Nepal Academy on the occasion of its 56th anniversary concluded on July 4. Books worth Rs 800,000 were sold in the exhibition, according to the organisers. Books of Nepali, Maithali, Bhojpuri, Limbu, Emglish and Hindi languages were showcased in the exhibition.</span></p> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The literary exhibition organised by the Nepal Academy on the occasion of its 56th anniversary concluded on July 4.', 'sortorder' => '1219', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1356', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'TU Published BBS First Year Result', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Tribhuvan University Office of the controller of examination, Balkhu has published the results of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBS) First Year-2069 exams. The exams were held on Sharwan-Bhadra 2069. </span></p> <p> Result Summary as follows </p> <p> Applicants : 44,584 </p> <p> Appeared : 43,565 </p> <p> Passed : 5,328 </p> <p> Failed : 33,479 </p> <p> Absent : 1,019 </p> <p> Failed and Partially Absent : 4,536 </p> <p> Expelled : 174 </p> <p> Withheld : 48 </p> <p> Passed Percentage : 12.23</p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Tribhuvan University Office of the controller of examination, Balkhu has published the results of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBS) First Year-2069', 'sortorder' => '1218', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1355', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Awareness Campaign Of CEDB In The Capital', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Clean Energy Development Bank (CEDB) organised an awareness campaign in various schools of the capital on July 1. The programme was organised to spread awareness regarding environmental degradation and its projected impacts through education, says CEDB in a press release. As the part of the campaign, CEDB interacted with more than 2000 students of Rupy’s International School, N.K. Singh Memorial EPS School, St Mary’s School, Kanya Sanskritik Madhyamik School, Durbar High School, St. Xavier’s School, Mount Glory School and Jana Prabhat School. This campaign nurtured environmental awareness and eco-conscious habits primarily among the students through classroom presentation of the prevailing environmental challenges faced by the countries around the globe and particularly Nepal, their impact, and individual solutions to address the threat.</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Clean Energy Development Bank (CEDB) organised an awareness campaign in various schools of the capital on July 1.', 'sortorder' => '1217', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1272', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => '10th Natiuonal Technologoical Festival', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Locus 2013, a group of fourth batch students of electronics and computer and electrical faculty organised the 10th National Technological Festival on June 28 at the premises of Pulchowk Campus. The three-day event was based on the theme of ‘Engineering Rural Development’. The exhibition of various hardware, software and electronics also took place in the programme. The festival was inaugurated by Anadnda Raj Khanal, the Director of Nepal Telecommunicatoions Authority (NTA), Prof Dr Subarna Shakya and Professor Timila Yami, assistant deans at the Institute of Engineering (IOE).</span></p> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Locus 2013, a group of fourth batch students of electronics and computer and electrical faculty organised the 10th National Technological Festival on June 28 at the premises of Pulchowk Campus.', 'sortorder' => '1134', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1271', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'NSU Demands FSU Polls', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The Nepal Student Union (NSU) affiliated with the Nepali Congress continued its relay hunger strike in front of the office of the vice chancellor of the Tribhuwan University demanding the date for the Free Student Union (FSU) elections at the earliest. NSU spokesperson UP Lamichane told The Corporate that they would organise more stringent protests if the demand is not addressed immediately. We will stage fast-unto-death if the TU fails to announce the date for polls right away, he said. The protesting students have also demanded that the TU implement its academic calendar in its affiliated colleges. The NSU has been carrying out relay strike at VC office gate for last four days.</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The Nepal Student Union (NSU) affiliated with the Nepali Congress continued its relay hunger strike in front of the office of the vice chancellor of the Tribhuwan University demanding the date for the Free Student Union (FSU) elections at the earliest.', 'sortorder' => '1133', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1270', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Creative Writing Course', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">‘Wordmill: Creative Writing Workshops on Fiction and Non- Fiction’ has been concluded on June 29 in Kathmandu. The workshop was organized by Quixote’s Cove and was held at Thames International College in Old Baneshwor on Saturday. Noted writer Samrat Upadhyay along with two American writers Trevor Mackesey and John Thomas Howard shared their writing experiences in the workshop. Over 35 participated in the workshop.</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => '‘Wordmill: Creative Writing Workshops on Fiction and Non- Fiction’ has been concluded on June 29 in Kathmandu.', 'sortorder' => '1132', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1228', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Ashim Scored Highest Marks In SLC', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> Asim Ghimire (symbol number 0044365- I), student of the Birtamod-based Little Flowers English Boarding Secondary School, Jhapa secured 93.87 percent in the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination 2013.<br /> <br /> </p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'new business age biz news news & articles, biz news news & articles from new business age nepal, biz news headlines from nepal, current and latest biz news news from nepal, economic news from nepal, nepali biz news economic news and events, ongoing biz news news of nepal', 'description' => 'new business age biz news news & articles, biz news news & articles from new business age nepal, biz news headlines from nepal, current and latest biz news news from nepal, economic news from nepal, nepali biz news economic news and events, ongoing biz news news of nepal', 'sortorder' => '1090', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1227', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Robots For Sanitising Kathmandu', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <img alt="" height="144" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XDuvQBtJWpw/UdE9fUrPVqE/AAAAAAAAAVc/VKSgpYmJ9gM/s144-c/July1201310.jpg" width="144" /><br /> Advanced College of Engineering and Management is organising event called sanitizing Kathmandu in the capital this week. As a preparation for the event, Advanced Robotics Club (ARC) has been organising a three-day training programme at Advanced College of Engineering and Management. The event will focus on use of robotics to inform students about process of managing waste of the city, say organizers. In the programme, around 15 student will compete to win by using robots. Students will have to collect table tennis balls as waste, materials using their machines. Organisers claim that the event is an effort to enhance practical knowledge of the students. 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According to organisers, the drama will be staged at the KU Auditorium, Dhulikhel on 2nd and 3rd September and at the Village Theatre in Uttar Dhoka on 6th and 7th September. Tickets are available at the Ekta Book Centre. Producer Ian Raitt says, “We will present the Mahabharata Part 3 – The War and complete a cycle of dramas presented by the school which began in 2008.” Tickets are priced at Rs 100 for students and Rs 300 for adults.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">UGC to Introduce a New Education Policy</span></strong></div> <div> The University Grants Commission (UGC) is gearing up to introduce a new higher education policy that will help develop universities in Nepal as learning centres. The UGC will form a policy that will boost the quality of university education in Nepal, according to UGC Chairman Ganesh Man Gurung. A discussion was held last week on a preliminary draft formulated by the Commission in the capital. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Job Mela at Don Bosco</span></strong></div> <div> <img alt="KDBC" src="/userfiles/images/kdbc.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 125px; height: 26px;" />Kathmandu Don Bosco College (KDBC) has organised a job placement day on August 24 at its college premises in Kathmandu. The event was targeted at the students of the college to help explore employment opportunities. Some international and national corporate houses such as Chaudhary Group, Sitoula Group and JF Group among others participated in the programme.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">ECAN Celebrates 17th Anniversary </span></strong></div> <div> <img alt="ECAN" src="/userfiles/images/ecan.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; width: 90px; height: 88px;" />Educational Consultancy Association of Nepal (ECAN) celebrated its 17th anniversary on Thursday, 29th August. A blood donation programme was organised on the occasion. According to President Rajendra Baral, 42 people donated blood on the occasion. At the programme, Baral said that ECAN is committed to giving fair educational counselling and is determined to improve their shortcomings. President of Nepal Chamber of Commerce Suresh Kumar Basnet, President of Nepal Professors’ Association Rameshwor Upadhayay, ECAN General Secretary Mahesh Babu Timalsina, ECAN Advisor Arun Lamichhane, and Former ECAN President Dipak Gurung were present in the programme. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Nepalis Students Took Part in the ASC Camp 2013</span></strong></div> <div> <img alt="ASC" src="/userfiles/images/asc.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 33px;" />Five students from Nepal participated in the Asian Science Camp 2013 that was held August 25 onward in Japan. Students promising in science were selected for the participation. A five day-long event included discussions and dialogues session among students and top scholars around the world. The programme promoted international friendship and cooperation among the students of Asia, Australia and Oceania. Among more than 200 students from various countries Rishav Acharya, Prayog Koirala, Ishan Bhattarai, Samikshya Shrestha and Swaviman Acharya took part in the event representing their respective education institutions.</div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-09-02', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Students of Kathmandu University High School will stage a drama based on epic Mahabharata in the first week of the September.', 'sortorder' => '1602', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1609', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (12-18 August 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;"><img alt="KUSOM" src="/userfiles/images/KUSOM.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 125px; height: 126px;" />4th KUSOM Job and Internship Fair </span></strong></div> <div> With the presence of 14 leading companies, the 4th KUSOM Job and Internship Fair (KJIF) took place on August 8, 2013 in KUSOM premises. The event was organized by KJIF team formed under KUSOM Placement Cell.The fair was organized to provide a platform for interaction between graduating students of KUSOM seeking placement or internship and the companies looking for management graduates. The participating companies include Beed Management Pvt. Ltd, Bottlers Nepal Ltd., DHL Express Nepal Ltd. Global IME Bank Ltd. Kailash Bikas Bank Ltd., MAW Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., MC Group of Companies, Nabil Bank Ltd., NIC Asia Bank Ltd., NMB Capital Ltd., Surya Nepal, Triveni Byapar Co. Pvt Ltd., Unilever Nepal Ltd and V-Chitra. It has a mix of banks, manufacturing companies, ad agencies, Research agencies and trading companies. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Short story felicitation to Bhattarai</span></strong></div> <div> This year’s ‘short story felicitation’ is being awarded to writer Pushkar Raj Bhattarai by the Short Story Society (SSS). Bhattarai, who is pursuing a research study in short stories, will be awarded on the occasion of ‘National Short Story Day’ celebrated in the 1st week of Bhadra. The award includes a cash prize of five thousand rupees along with a felicitation letter. The Short Story Society will be organising a special programme for the day with the association of Nepal Academy. The National Short Story Day is celebrated on the fifth day of Bhadra each year.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Book Collection Movement</span></strong></div> <div> The ‘One Book Movement’ has been initiated with the aim to make children’s literature available to rural children. An organisation named ‘Education Nepal’ is starting the movement from August 12. One hundred and twenty volunteers are collecting books from educational institutes and people’s homes to distribute to children in remote districts. At a press meet, Education Nepal informed that their aim is to collect 100,000 books. According to director Prem Bahadur Bohara, the collected books will be distributed in rural areas to students from class 1 to 10. The organisation had distributed 10,000 books to students in Jajarkot and Dolpa last year.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">SLC Supplementary Exams Completed</span></strong></div> <div> The SLC supplementary exams which started in August 4 were completed yesterday. Students who failed in a maximum of two subjects in the SLC exams last year took the exam. Nationwide 111,000 students appeared for the exam. This year, 55,000 students had failed in the Science subject, 50,000 in Mathematics and 31,000 in English.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">2nd ICT Meet-up</span></strong></div> <div> The 2nd KRM Software ICT Meet-Up 2013 took place this Saturday in Kathmandu. The meeting was organised by Prime College and Prime IT Club with a purpose to help students identify best employment opportunities in Information Technology (IT). A large number of IT students and IT institutes were present in the programme. “The programme helps to inform IT students about future opportunities,” Principal of Prime College, Naresh Shrestha, said. The registration fee for the programme was Rs 1, the proceeds of which will be provided to ‘Help Nepal Network’.</div> <div> </div> <div> <strong><span style="font-size:14px;">Corporate Meet by Nobel Academy</span></strong></div> <div> Nobel Academy, Pokhara organised a meeting with the corporate houses of Pokhara and nearby places last Tuesday. Thirty-five representatives from corporate houses participated in the programme. The programme was organised to develop relationships with corporate houses and to collect suggestions for the human resource needs of corporate houses. </div> <div> </div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-08-12', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'With the presence of 14 leading companies, the 4th KUSOM Job and Internship Fair (KJIF) took place on August 8, 2013 in KUSOM premises.', 'sortorder' => '1470', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1563', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (5-11 August 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <strong>Committee Formed to Celebrate 8th National Library Day </strong></div> <div> A main organisation committee has been formed in the chairmanship of Narayan Gopal Malego, secretary of the Ministry of Education, to celebrate the 8th National Library Day on Bhadra 15 (August 31st). Bhim Dhwoj Shrestha, chief at the Tribhuwan University’s Central Department of Library and Information Science, has been appointed as Vice-chairman of the committee. The National Library Day has been celebrated annually for the last 7 years to increase awareness about libraries. The committee has decided to celebrate this year’s library day as a weeklong celebration. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>BBA Programmes to have 4th Year </strong></div> <div> The Ministry of Education has directed colleges with Indian university affiliation offering BBA (Bachelor in Business Administration) programmes to extend the programme to 4 years. As the BBA programmes offered in Tribhuwan University (TU) and Kathmandu University (KU) are of 4 years, the ministry has directed colleges with Indian university affiliations to change their programmes to 4-year-programmes too. This step has been taken to maintain the equivalence among students from Nepali universities and Indian universities. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>PF for Community Schools’ Staff </strong></div> <div> Staffs of community colleges are now to be provided with Provident Funds (PF) and gratuity. The Ministry of Education has made ‘service laws’ according to which staffs who have served for 5-10 years will get half a month’s salary as gratuity annually. Those who have served for 10-15 years will get a month’s salary as gratuity and persons who have served for more than 15 years will get a month and a half’s worth of salary as gratuity annually. The law has been made by the Ministry of Education, guaranteeing services and facilities for community school staffs in accordance with the order of the Supreme Court. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Private Schools not to Increase Staff Salary </strong></div> <div> Though the government increased the salary of government schools’ staffs this fiscal year, private schools have decided not to follow suit. According to the Education Regulation, there is a provision to increase the salary every educational year, not the fiscal year. There is a clear provision in the ‘Organisational Schools Directory’ released by the government that salaries are increased only in the start of the educational year and facilities and services too are fixed by that time. “Salaries cannot be increased in the middle of the educational year,” says chairman of PABSON, Dr Babu Ram Pokharel. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>A New HR Services Enterprise </strong></div> <div> <img alt="BizSupport" src="/userfiles/images/bspl.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;width: 100px; height: 28px;" />A new HR service providing company named ‘Bizsupport’ has been opened with the purpose to serve the wider arena of business and economy by inspiring MBA students to pursue Human Resource Management as their career. Bizsupport is headed by a human resources management practitioner with 22 plus years experience as Head of Human Resources in various organizations like hotels, MNCs, banks etc. Bizsupport tries to deliver its services distinctively from others in terms of quality and efficiency in order to add value to business. It provides services like business process outsourcing, representation direct marketing, HR audit, recruitment executive search, training and development, competency mapping, event management, HR systems, organizational development and PMS (Performance Managanement Systems).</div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-08-05', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Staffs of community colleges are now to be provided with Provident Funds (PF) and gratuity.', 'sortorder' => '1424', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1518', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (29 July - 4 August 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <strong>TU to Improve its Exam Process </strong></div> <div> With a new education calendar that features admission details and examination routine, the examination process in Tribhuwan University is to be improved. The calendar is to be published within a week or two from now. According to Shankar Bhandari, Acting Examination Controller at the TU Examination Controller Department, the new calendar is including students’ admission time, curriculum, exam routine, and details on the publication of results. This is being done to end the current delay in examinations and announcement of results. </div> <div> </div> <div> Likewise, according to the Examination Controller Office, the TU staff will be working from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm to announce results on time and their salary too will be increased accordingly. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>6th Malaysian Education Fair </strong></div> <div> Scholars’ Choice Pvt. Ltd. organised the 6th Malaysia Education Fair in Nepal Pragya Prathisthan, Kathmandu on July 26 and July 27. The two-day fair was organised with the help of the Malaysian Embassy in Nepal. Various Malaysian Universities participated in the fair which was supposed to be beneficial for students seeking information regarding necessary details for higher studies, educational environment and the educational policies in Malaysia. </div> <div> </div> <div> According to Scholar Choice Pvt. Ltd., it’s easy to take a degree from UK, Australia, America and other countries after studying in Malaysian universities. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>2nd White House Inter-College B-Fiesta </strong></div> <div> Himalayan White House College is organising its second ‘Inter College B-Fiesta 2013’. The fiesta is being held on August 16 and 17 in Trade Tower, Thapathali and is a competition among Bachelors and Masters Students of Management. According to Yubraj Ghimire, CEO of White House College, the fiesta is a medium to explore talent within management students. “Students will be awarded according to their skills and talent,” he says. There will be a Management Quiz, Arts and Fashion Show and other competitions regarding management. </div> <div> </div> <div> Meanwhile, the college is also organizing its (third) ‘Nationwide Science Exhibition-2013’. Organisers hope to motivate higher secondary students towards Science and Technology through this event. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Uniformed Students in Parks and Cinema Halls Arrested </strong></div> <div> High school students found in cinema halls, shopping malls, restaurants, hotels, parks and other places for amusement are being arrested by the police. The Higher Secondary Schools Investigation Committee decided, in a meeting on Friday, to inform the District Administrative office to regulate the +2 code of conduct made by the government. According to committee member Suprabhat Bhandari, arrested students will be taken to the ward police station and will be handed to their parents later. According to the code of conduct, students found bunking classes, smoking and drinking in school uniform will be fined Rs 500 to Rs 5000 and can be restricted from giving board exams. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Healthy Schools Seminar at Nirvana </strong></div> <div> Nirvana Wellness Centre organized a Healthy Schools Seminar on Child Health on 20th July with a view to raise awareness about Children’s Health. Representatives from various schools and New Parents were present in the event. The programme focused on different aspects of child health with a series of presentations and interactions from Child Health Experts. Programme was emphasized on the fact that a balanced diet and active lifestyle plays a key role in a child being healthy. With its motto, Health and Beyond, Nirvana Wellness Centre says to continue to organize healthy living seminars in the future for a Healthy Society.</div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-29', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'With a new education calendar that features admission details and examination routine, the examination process in Tribhuwan University is to be improved.', 'sortorder' => '1379', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1430', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Learning Curve News In Brief (15-21 July 2013)', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<div> <img alt="Vice Chairman of the CPN (UML) Bamdev Gautam" src="/userfiles/images/bschool.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; width: 300px; height: 180px;" /></div> <div> <strong>B School Ranking & Awards in the Offing </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> New Business Age Pvt Ltd is organizing ‘Everest Bank National Business School Rating-Ranking- Awards’ for the first time in Nepal. Various streams under management including Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA), Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelors in Hotel Management (BHM) are being rated on various grounds. The publication house has already organized rating of Higher Secondary School and awarded top ten schools from the country. Similarly the award function of B Schools will reward the best schools for hospitality, management and tourism studies. A committee has been formed for the evaluation of best schools under the leadership of Prof Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhary, former Dean of Symbiosis International University, Pune, India. After this, the experts from education and business sectors would rate the schools on various grounds. The B Schools would be ranked on the basis of recognition, affiliation, global and local tie-up of the institute, scope and frequency of updating syllabus, tools and communication, practical inputs and best practices and alumni and industry network as given by B-Schools management. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Best and Weak Teachers to be Identified </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> With an aim to improve the education quality of community schools, teachers working there are planned to be categorised as best and weak and the name lists will be made public through a web-site. The teacher ranking is being done on the basis of average student pass out rate of a particular district. </div> <div> According to Tek Narayan Pandey, Director at Department of Education, best teachers from the list will be encouraged and awarded by District Education Office while teachers who have fallen in weak category will get an opportunity for self improvement. However, Vice- president of Nepal Teachers’ Union, Purna Joshi claimed that this will diminish the confidence of teachers. “Rather than comparing, weaknesses of teachers should be identified and they should be given chance to improve,” he said. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Excursion Turned into a Noble Deed </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> The Principal and 32 students from Chonbuk National University of South Korea extended financial help of Rs 71 thousand to Kopila Basyal, a 12th standard student of Mohan Kanya Higher Secondary School, Palpa. Group’s visit to Nepal during summer vacations resulted into taking Basyal to South Koera for Higher studies. Deepak Prasad Gyanwali, Principal of the school, said that the group has also provided two sets of computers and other accessories for the better learning of the children. Similarly regarding the extra curricular activities they provided taekwondo training, knowledge related to science laboratory, dance and music training and different sports guidance to the students as a part of cultural exchange. </div> <div> </div> <div> <strong>Adikavi Bhanubhakta Award to Karmacharya </strong></div> <div> </div> <div> Senior litterateur, Madhavlal Karmacharya bagged this year’s Adikavi Bhanubhakta Award conferred by The Nepali Education Council. Rastrakavi Madhav Prasad Ghimire handed over the award to 87-year-old litterateur Karmacharya amidst a programme on the occasion of commencement of the Bhanu Second Centenary on July 13. The award is worth Rs 101,111.</div> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-15', 'modified' => '2013-07-15', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'New Business Age Pvt Ltd is organizing ‘Everest Bank National Business School Rating-Ranking- Awards’ for the first time in Nepal.', 'sortorder' => '1292', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1359', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Seminar On FPGA Held', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The Xilinx Research Laboratory (XRLab) at the department of Electronics Engineering College in Sanepa organised a seminar on ‘Field –programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Technology and its role in electronics engineering in Nepal on July 3 at premises of the Sagarmatha Engineering College and Nepal Engineering College. Faculty members of the Department of Electronics Engineering of various colleges affiliated to various universities as well as colleges affiliated to Tribhuvan University (TU) and Purbanchal University (PU) participated in the programme.</span></p> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The Xilinx Research Laboratory (XRLab) at the department of Electronics Engineering College in Sanepa organised a seminar on ‘Field –programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Technology', 'sortorder' => '1221', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 6 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1358', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Validation Event @ TBC', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The British College (TBC) successfully hosted a validation event with the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. In the event, CEO of the TBC Rajen Kandel said, “TBC will have at least 10% international students and it is now planning to expand its campuses to at least two other countries in Asia which will allow its students to complete the degrees at various international locations. Mike Welsh, the principal of the TBC said, “We are extremely delighted at the level of support provided by UWE to the college and staff. We are working together with UWE to make the TBC a centre of international excellence in south Asia.”</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The British College (TBC) successfully hosted a validation event with the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol.', 'sortorder' => '1220', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 7 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1357', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Academy’s Book Expo Concludes', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The literary exhibition organised by the Nepal Academy on the occasion of its 56th anniversary concluded on July 4. Books worth Rs 800,000 were sold in the exhibition, according to the organisers. Books of Nepali, Maithali, Bhojpuri, Limbu, Emglish and Hindi languages were showcased in the exhibition.</span></p> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The literary exhibition organised by the Nepal Academy on the occasion of its 56th anniversary concluded on July 4.', 'sortorder' => '1219', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 8 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1356', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'TU Published BBS First Year Result', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Tribhuvan University Office of the controller of examination, Balkhu has published the results of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBS) First Year-2069 exams. The exams were held on Sharwan-Bhadra 2069. </span></p> <p> Result Summary as follows </p> <p> Applicants : 44,584 </p> <p> Appeared : 43,565 </p> <p> Passed : 5,328 </p> <p> Failed : 33,479 </p> <p> Absent : 1,019 </p> <p> Failed and Partially Absent : 4,536 </p> <p> Expelled : 174 </p> <p> Withheld : 48 </p> <p> Passed Percentage : 12.23</p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Tribhuvan University Office of the controller of examination, Balkhu has published the results of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBS) First Year-2069', 'sortorder' => '1218', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 9 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1355', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Awareness Campaign Of CEDB In The Capital', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Clean Energy Development Bank (CEDB) organised an awareness campaign in various schools of the capital on July 1. The programme was organised to spread awareness regarding environmental degradation and its projected impacts through education, says CEDB in a press release. As the part of the campaign, CEDB interacted with more than 2000 students of Rupy’s International School, N.K. Singh Memorial EPS School, St Mary’s School, Kanya Sanskritik Madhyamik School, Durbar High School, St. Xavier’s School, Mount Glory School and Jana Prabhat School. This campaign nurtured environmental awareness and eco-conscious habits primarily among the students through classroom presentation of the prevailing environmental challenges faced by the countries around the globe and particularly Nepal, their impact, and individual solutions to address the threat.</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-08', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Clean Energy Development Bank (CEDB) organised an awareness campaign in various schools of the capital on July 1.', 'sortorder' => '1217', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 10 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1272', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => '10th Natiuonal Technologoical Festival', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">Locus 2013, a group of fourth batch students of electronics and computer and electrical faculty organised the 10th National Technological Festival on June 28 at the premises of Pulchowk Campus. The three-day event was based on the theme of ‘Engineering Rural Development’. The exhibition of various hardware, software and electronics also took place in the programme. The festival was inaugurated by Anadnda Raj Khanal, the Director of Nepal Telecommunicatoions Authority (NTA), Prof Dr Subarna Shakya and Professor Timila Yami, assistant deans at the Institute of Engineering (IOE).</span></p> <div> </div>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'Locus 2013, a group of fourth batch students of electronics and computer and electrical faculty organised the 10th National Technological Festival on June 28 at the premises of Pulchowk Campus.', 'sortorder' => '1134', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 11 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1271', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'NSU Demands FSU Polls', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">The Nepal Student Union (NSU) affiliated with the Nepali Congress continued its relay hunger strike in front of the office of the vice chancellor of the Tribhuwan University demanding the date for the Free Student Union (FSU) elections at the earliest. NSU spokesperson UP Lamichane told The Corporate that they would organise more stringent protests if the demand is not addressed immediately. We will stage fast-unto-death if the TU fails to announce the date for polls right away, he said. The protesting students have also demanded that the TU implement its academic calendar in its affiliated colleges. The NSU has been carrying out relay strike at VC office gate for last four days.</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => 'The Nepal Student Union (NSU) affiliated with the Nepali Congress continued its relay hunger strike in front of the office of the vice chancellor of the Tribhuwan University demanding the date for the Free Student Union (FSU) elections at the earliest.', 'sortorder' => '1133', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 12 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1270', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Creative Writing Course', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <span style="font-size: 12px;">‘Wordmill: Creative Writing Workshops on Fiction and Non- Fiction’ has been concluded on June 29 in Kathmandu. The workshop was organized by Quixote’s Cove and was held at Thames International College in Old Baneshwor on Saturday. Noted writer Samrat Upadhyay along with two American writers Trevor Mackesey and John Thomas Howard shared their writing experiences in the workshop. Over 35 participated in the workshop.</span></p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'the corporate weekly from Nepal, nepali corporate events – news – interviews – reviews, nepali corporate focus, nepali corporate status and news, news from nepali corporate industry, corporate happenings – events – news from nepal', 'description' => '‘Wordmill: Creative Writing Workshops on Fiction and Non- Fiction’ has been concluded on June 29 in Kathmandu.', 'sortorder' => '1132', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 13 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1228', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Ashim Scored Highest Marks In SLC', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> Asim Ghimire (symbol number 0044365- I), student of the Birtamod-based Little Flowers English Boarding Secondary School, Jhapa secured 93.87 percent in the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination 2013.<br /> <br /> </p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'new business age biz news news & articles, biz news news & articles from new business age nepal, biz news headlines from nepal, current and latest biz news news from nepal, economic news from nepal, nepali biz news economic news and events, ongoing biz news news of nepal', 'description' => 'new business age biz news news & articles, biz news news & articles from new business age nepal, biz news headlines from nepal, current and latest biz news news from nepal, economic news from nepal, nepali biz news economic news and events, ongoing biz news news of nepal', 'sortorder' => '1090', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ), (int) 14 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '1227', 'article_category_id' => '154', 'title' => 'Robots For Sanitising Kathmandu', 'sub_title' => '', 'summary' => null, 'content' => '<p> <img alt="" height="144" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-XDuvQBtJWpw/UdE9fUrPVqE/AAAAAAAAAVc/VKSgpYmJ9gM/s144-c/July1201310.jpg" width="144" /><br /> Advanced College of Engineering and Management is organising event called sanitizing Kathmandu in the capital this week. As a preparation for the event, Advanced Robotics Club (ARC) has been organising a three-day training programme at Advanced College of Engineering and Management. The event will focus on use of robotics to inform students about process of managing waste of the city, say organizers. In the programme, around 15 student will compete to win by using robots. Students will have to collect table tennis balls as waste, materials using their machines. Organisers claim that the event is an effort to enhance practical knowledge of the students. It would be a great learning experience for the students, organizers say.<br /> <br /> </p>', 'published' => true, 'created' => '2013-07-01', 'modified' => '0000-00-00', 'keywords' => 'new business age biz news news & articles, biz news news & articles from new business age nepal, biz news headlines from nepal, current and latest biz news news from nepal, economic news from nepal, nepali biz news economic news and events, ongoing biz news news of nepal', 'description' => 'new business age biz news news & articles, biz news news & articles from new business age nepal, biz news headlines from nepal, current and latest biz news news from nepal, economic news from nepal, nepali biz news economic news and events, ongoing biz news news of nepal', 'sortorder' => '1089', 'image' => null, 'article_date' => '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'homepage' => false, 'breaking_news' => false, 'main_news' => false, 'in_scroller' => false, 'user_id' => '0' ) ) ) $current_user = null $logged_in = false $xml = falsesimplexml_load_file - [internal], line ?? include - APP/View/Elements/side_bar.ctp, line 133 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::_renderElement() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 1224 View::element() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 418 include - APP/View/Articles/index.ctp, line 157 View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971 View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933 View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473 Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968 Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200 Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167 [main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 117
| Currency | Unit |
Buy | Sell |
| U.S. Dollar | 1 | 121.23 | 121.83 |
| European Euro | 1 | 131.65 | 132.31 |
| UK Pound Sterling | 1 | 142.47 | 143.18 |
| Swiss Franc | 1 | 124.29 | 124.90 |
| Australian Dollar | 1 | 71.69 | 72.05 |
| Canadian Dollar | 1 | 83.90 | 84.32 |
| Japanese Yen | 10 | 10.94 | 11.00 |
| Chinese Yuan | 1 | 17.17 | 17.26 |
| Saudi Arabian Riyal | 1 | 32.27 | 32.43 |
| UAE Dirham | 1 | 33.01 | 33.17 |
| Malaysian Ringgit | 1 | 27.36 | 27.50 |
| South Korean Won | 100 | 9.77 | 9.82 |
Update: 2020-03-25 | Source: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB)
| Fine Gold | 1 tola | 77000.00 |
| Tejabi Gold | 1 tola | 76700.00 |
| Silver | 1 tola | 720.00 |
Update : 2020-03-25
Source: Federation of Nepal Gold and Silver Dealers' Association
| Petrol | 1 Liter | 106.00 |
| Diesel | 1 Liter | 95.00 |
| Kerosene | 1 Liter | 95.00 |
| LP Gas | 1 Cylinder | 1375.00 |
Update : 2020-03-25
