By Biswash Chepang, Program Coordinator, MBA Nonprofit | Agribusiness The Chepang communities with a population of about 68,000, who live in Chitwan, Makawanpur, Dhading and Gorkha districts are one the most marginalized indigenous communities in Nepal. They are also some of the hardest hit by COVID-19 pandemic. The Chepang communities have one of the highest…
By Raunak Chaudhari (Lab Master, DoLAB) Umes Dai (Right Brain, Empowerment Academy) asks a participant during Teach Lab: “Why do you look so low?”, to which the participant said: “ASK, don’t ASSUME”. And that is what we have been reminding the participants throughout the workshop. At this point, we as organizers of the workshop have…
By Udgum Khadka, Educational Designer (Empowerment Academy)/Faculty We at King’s College, have recently started synchronous online teaching amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic. On average, 20 online classes run simultaneously each day, 5 days a week, from 6:30 am to 11:00 am. The average class has 34 students, with the highest number of students in a…
By Swechhya Rajbhandary, Project Co-ordinator, DEMOLA In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that has led to a global crisis and brought the nation to a halt with much uncertainty for the future, like most academic institutions, King’s College also faced a conundrum: how might we stay home and flatten the curve without putting a…
By Udgum Khadka, Educational Designer/Faculty, King’s College After a brief interaction with one of my undergrad students, I got a hint that they prefer to have a class beyond the four walls of the classroom. She gave an example of an Art History class where she went to Bhaktapur Durbar Square (King’s Palace area). There…
By Prateek Raj Neupane (Lab Master – DoLAB) I have a 3-year-old daughter and I like to observe what she does intently. In my process of observation, I assume that what a child does is a natural behavior for human beings and what s/he needs to be taught is possibly acquired. For example, my daughter…
By Raunak Chaudhari (MBA Alumni; Coach – DoLAB) Do you learn something by reading something or listening to someone talk or even watching someone work? Or do you learn when you take that and put that in the context of what you do? Prateek dai (Lab Master, Do Lab) and I had a quick conversation…
With design thinking, people often use the idea of “iteration”. It is the idea that you don’t do something once and be done with it. Instead, you take the result, learn from it and go back to make it better every time. And just like iteration in designing products and services, we manage to learn…
By Umes Shrestha (Right brain – EA) and Udgum Khadka (Backbone – EA) Dear teachers, The new year 2019 does not align perfectly with our academic year. But we can still make a few new year resolutions on how to improve our teaching. Because, what better time than now! In this article series, we’ll be…
– By Upasna Acharya Ms. Acharya is Assistant Professor at Center for Research and Development, King’s College. Public Procurement in Practice Public procurement is one of the tools that helps governments achieve economic development and social transformation goals. The procurement system, in general, has significant impact on country’s economy and occupies substantial share in…