Working Condition, Problems and Its Impact on the Health of Sexual and Gender Minorities

The third gender in contemporary societies is viewed from different angle. They have been facing different problems because of their sexuality. The objective of the paper is to explore the working condition, problems and its impact on the health of sexual and gender minorities in community. The descriptive research design was adopted in this study. It was based on field study in Kathmandu valley. Interview schedule has been applied as tool of data collection. The study was delimited to the LGBTI registered under BDS only. Altogether 100 respondents were selected out of total (111) purposively. Most of the LGBT (53.6%) were involved in private sector and 34.56% were working as sex worker. The respondents (38.47%) reported that they were dismissed from the job and 12.5% suffered from sexual exploitation and rape. Similarly, 32.78% suffered from mental tension and 20% suffered from depression. Social support, information education and awareness programs targeting the LGBT and studies covering a diverse population are recommended.

Situation of Sports in Ilam

“Sports is an institutionalized comparative activity that involves various physical extensions or the use of relatively complex physical skills by individuals whose participation is motivated by combination of intrinsic and extrinsic factors.” Present situation of sports in Ilam district entitled research was conducted in Ilam, where forty-seven (47) sports related persons were selected as respondents for the study. The main objectives of the study were to find out the developmental trend, present status and prospect of sports in Ilam district. For this study convenient cum purposive sampling method was used. Different sets of interview schedule was developed including overall issues of the developmental trend present status of sports in Ilam district.

Knowledge and Attitude on STDs and HIV and AIDS among Secondary School Students

The study was carried out to find out the knowledge and attitude on STDs and HIV and AIDS among Secondary School students of Kathmandu District. This study followed the simple random sampling method to select the respondents. Altogether 120adolescents were the respondents of the study and questionnaire and attitude scale were the tools of the study. The study found that, 25 percent answered full form of STDs and HIV and AIDS correctly. Almost 50 percent of the respondents had knowledge about commercial sex workers who had high risk of STDs and HIV transmission. Similarly, 62.5 percent respondents who answered sex education is needed and same percent expressed condom is on of the most important devices that protect STDs and HIV and AIDS transmission. Premarital and extra marital sex may cause STDs and HIV and AIDS was responded as 25.00, 23.33, 18.33, 30.00 and 3.33 percent as strongly agreed, agreed, undecided, disagreed and strongly disagreed respectively. In the statement ‘students must get proper sexual and reproductive health from junior to higher education’ to prevent and control HIV and AIDS and other STDs and 30.00, 23.33, 15.00, 8.33 and 23.33 percent respondents agreed, undecided, disagreed and strongly disagreed respectively. It seems that respondents were deprived to get proper knowledge on STDs and HIV and AIDS. Hence, government must monitor schools whether they are providing SRH properly or not and also government must appoint the concern academic background HPE Ed. teacher to teach SRH matter properly.

Gender Transformative Practices in Early Grade Reading Classrooms

This article is based on a research work of 2017 conducted for Plan International Nepal. The research was originally done to assess the reading comprehension of Nepali subject together with basic skills of Mathematics of early graders in grades Two and Three. It focused on assessing existing situation of the early grades’ learning status together with early learning environments in relation to early grade reading. It included field work in 17 schools of Four districts, namely, Morang, Makwanpur, Sindhuli and Banke. It aimed to assess the gender transformative practices in selected classrooms of early grades.

Use of Large Scale Assessment Finding in South Asia: An Experience of Nepal

This paper tries to present results from a systematic review of literature that reviewed the large-scale assessments finding in the South Asian context especially focusing Nepal. The main objective of the LEAP programme is to reform the quality of learning in the Asia-Pacific region by developing capacity of the Member States to collect, analyze and utilize international and national assessment data identifying learning enablers. The review has identified the high order skills overshadowed by rote learning. It has also employed Item Response Theory (IRT) making assessments comparable and connected with the previous levels. International Assessments such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) collected vast amounts of data on schools, students and households. The use of education-related “big data” for evidence-based policy making is limited, partly due to insufficient institutional capacity of countries to analyze such data and link results with policies.

Socio-Economic Upliftment through English Language in Nepal

This article tries to focus on the role of English language in Nepal to uplift socioeconomic status tracing the shifts from historical practices, trends on academics, reviewing the status from policy practices and research trends. It tries to present the personal stories of learning English of professionals based on secondary source and reflecting the context of students from Nepal who desire to learn English. It tries to highlight the further suggestions and assumptions from Nepalese context in which role of English is studied in the socio-economic benefits.

Effects of Social Network on Health Education

Social networks have become an inseparable part of our modern life. Social network, if used properly, can be very beneficial for all the users in every respect. There are many researched applications of Social network in different fields, its application in Health Education was not mentioned anywhere properly, though. For the survey, the students of Bachelors’ levels, majoring in Health and Physical Education in constituent and affiliated colleges of T.U. of Kathmandu Valley were selected from the different colleges. Altogether 171 students, who were acquainted with Social network, were selected as respondents for the study. Questionnaires were used to collect quantitative data and interview guidelines were used to obtain qualitative data from teachers. The students and teachers profoundly used Social network still they should use it for educational purpose. The communication gap between teachers and students were clearly perceived.

Representation and Identity Construction of Ethnic Minorities from Discourses in Government Media

Discourse is the common sense language that represents the society, culture, social groups, group behaviours, socio-cultural identities and political ideologies. It signifies communication as a whole. Media gives space for people’s voices in its programs and publications. In the same way, media is a common representative of the voices of all the ethnic communities regardless of majority or minority in its true principle. However, the languages and voices of all ethnic communities have not been represented in the discourse of government media in Nepal. In such a situation, this research aimed to; examine the representation of ethnic-minority languages in the discourses of government media of Nepal; critically assess the socio-cultural and political cognitions of the ethnic-minorities throughout the discourses in those media, and; identify the various identities constructed by the speakers of ethnic-minority languages through the discourses in government media. The finding of the study shows that our of 125 languages spoken in Nepal only 22 ethnic languages are represented in the discourse of Nepalese government media and the ethnic minority felt themselves being included within the national discourse when they found their discourses being represented in public media.

नेपाली भाषा शिक्षकहरुको अनुभवमा परीक्षण अङ्कन सम्बन्धी दृष्टिकोण Nepali Bhasha Shikshakharuko Anubhavma Parikshan Angkan Sambandhi Drishtikon

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