United World Schools Nepal Teaching Fellowship Application Call

PRESS RELEASE: 5/22/2017

United World Schools, Nepal Teaching Fellowship, 2017

Officially begins from May 22, 2017

Kathmandu, May 22, 2017 – , the Nepal Teaching Fellowship, 2017 of United World Schools has been officially inaugurated by the Goodwill Ambassador of Fellowship program Ms. Malvika Subba at a special event organized at Hotel Sampada. UWS is honored to have Ms. Malvika as the Goodwill Ambassador. Her association with the organization shall help put forward the engagement of the young people with education and make a specific change in the education sector in rural areas. The event was organized specially to introduce the Fellowship program and call for the application for interested applicants for Fellows. United World Schools is an UK based independent charity providing the opportunity to read, write and count to those children who have been denied access to education in Cambodia, Myanmar and Nepal.

UWS Teaching fellowship, a unique kind of programme to make a difference in the life of children of poor and marginalized areas has kicked off in Nepal. The fellowship also provides interested Nepali youths an opportunity to serve in rural schools as full-time teachers for two years at a crucial time in their careers.

The fellowship aims to enhance the quality of education delivered to the children of rural Nepal through modern teaching methodology and create a meaningful connection between students, teachers, parents and community leaders understanding each other’s problems through mutual cooperation and collaborations.

In the 2-years long duration, the fellows can develop incredible skills and meaningful relationships with students, parents and community leaders that help further their personal and professional goals.

Similarly, it will also help build knowledge resource relevant to people of rural and remote communities. By improving the learning environment, and life skills of rural children, the programme would ultimately work towards removing barriers imposed by the socioeconomic environment on the poor and marginalized children of rural Nepal.

With the use of play, animated books, and visual-based learning, the programme will develop a passion for learning in the students along with, enabling understand concepts better, develop emotional and social intelligence and gain communication skills.

Speaking amidst the press-conference organized today in Kathmandu, Avinash Jha, Teaching Fellowship Director of UWS Nepal explained how they realized the lack of quality education in rural Nepali schools and how training and allowing the young leaders to teach can solve this. In addition, he talked about how fellowship is going to create future leaders in diverse sectors; including education policy researchers, lawyers, journalists, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, all with a shared purpose to superhead the task of building a peaceful and prosperous country on the basis of educational equity. “This programme seeks to change the scenario in rural Nepali villages. We are hopeful about the tremendous impact by the work of the fellows,” he said.

Similarly, Narottam Aryal, Executive Director of King’s College and advisor for the fellowship programme shared the current scenario of primary education in Nepal. “Education in Nepal is still at a nascent stage. Though the school-enrolment rate at primary levels is good, the dropout rate is very high and only small portion of the students complete the secondary education,” he said. He further mentioned the main problem of education lies in the lack of proper teacher, and expressed confidence that the fellowship will contribute to fill the void.

Likewise, Ms. Malvika Subba, Goodwill Ambassador of UWS said that the fellowship can play a major role in contributing to better education system of rural areas in Nepal. She also shared few points on female empowerment by educating young female children.

With the minimum intermediate’s degree, Nepali citizen can apply to the fellowship program. The applicants would be invited to go through series of interviews and an interaction process, from which ten young fellows will be selected to begin the fellowship journey.  The selected fellows will receive extensive training program and coaching, professional development, and other resources throughout the course to become strong classroom and community leaders. The training is divided into two categories on which pre service training will last 1 month (residential) for the development of communication and leadership skills and in-service training will last throughout the fellowship period.