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Teaching through radio

31-08-2006 (New Delhi)
Teaching through radio
© Jeff Victor
Fifteen teachers from seven government schools across Rupandehi District and two radio producers of Lumbini community multimedia centre (CMC) in Nepal participated in a five-day multimedia education training programme that was organized by CMC Lumbini with support from UNESCO.
The Teachers Association of Nepal (TAN), in Rupandehi District in collaboration with CMC Lumbini started broadcasting an education programme titled "Teaching through Radio" earlier this year, just three months before the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) exam was due to begin. The programme targeted ten students from Government schools who generally are deprived of good education facilities and extra tuition. The aim of the programme was to increase pass percentages, which have been decreasing consistently since the time Maoist conflict broke out in Nepal.

The three-month old programme has garnered active participation from students from all over Rupandehi and adjoining districts covered by Radio Lumbini. A deluge of letters and phone calls indicates the growing demand from students and parents to run the education programme on radio through out the year.

On the last day of the training, Ganga Dutta Awasti, District Education Officer remarked: "the efforts taken by teachers and CMC Lumbini to address the importance of education in the area is commendable. Our department should be leading this and is committed to support the initiative from the government education fund to take the programme forward." Since the time of the training, TAN has had a meeting with the District Education Office to formalize the collaboration and support.

"During the training, the teachers decided that they would focus on Science, English and Mathematics. These are subjects that majority of the students do not succeed in. The plan is to start broadcasting the programme from September to simultaneously coincide with school schedules of the new academic session which have just begun in Nepal," says Deepak Koirala, coordinator of Lumbini CMC

CMC Madanpokhara in Palpa District, Western Nepal completed one year of a similar distance education programme for class eight students. With the programme creating a positive impact on the performance of students, local teachers and CMC Madanpokhara have decided to introduce a similar schedule for students of class nine from this beginning this week. Next year the CMC also aims to extend programming to include radio lessons for students of class ten.
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