Nepal Beyond The Clouds - Interview d' Eric Valli

Pour se rappeler que le Nepal et les Nepalais existent toujours et qu'au dela du film il y a quelque chose a reconstruire ...

L'important n'est pas tant le docu-film qui ser(ait) realise comme temoignage que ce qu'il vise a partager derriere les images et la mediatisation, et l'interrogation qu'il succite: jusqu'a quand pouvons-nous fermer les yeux sur notre monde et ce que nous sommes et quel humain voulons nous etre ?   

Ce petit billet ne vous invite donc pas a financer la realisation du film mais a prendre quelque minutes de reflexion pour vous meme!

https://vimeo.com/155798959
A documentary dedicated to the courage and the resilience of the Nepalese after the earthquake...

Un documentaire (a venir, presentation  voir ici) consacré au courage et à la résilience des Népalais après le tremblement de terre ...

25 avril 2015. Un terrible séisme frappe le Népal. Les images de Katmandou et la vallée environnante ont fait le tour du monde, montrant des sites historiques en ruine et surtout une catastrophe humanitaire plus qu’alarmante. Mais qu’en est-il alors dans le reste du pays ? Le photographe et réalisateur Eric Valli, auteur de reportages extraordinaires sur les chasseurs de miel au Népal ainsi que du film Himalaya, l’enfance d’un chef, ambitionne de documenter le quotidien des habitants isolés du Haut Himalaya, en plein hiver, à 5200 m d’altitude alors qu’ils « ré-empierrent et recreusent ». Le projet Beyond the clouds s’articule autour de cinq personnes, présentées ici. Pour récolter les 50 000 € (le premier seuil est fixé à 10 000 €) nécessaires à la réalisation du film, Eric Valli sollicite la participation du public sur la plate-forme de financement participatif touscoprod.com. Il reste vingt-neuf jours pour participer. (12/02/2016 | Benjamin Favier) 

Quality Education in Nepal Primary Schools-“NSA open materials”

Read on http://nepalschoolsaid.org/2016/02/02/free-online-learning/

Nepal Schools Aid(uk) is pleased to announce the release of our materials and courses for primary teachers as developed in Nepal by UK and Nepali education experts. We are delivering them as online learning courses.

Global Challenge

Education Psychology

Values In Education

Classroom Facilitation

Education Leadership

They can be used anywhere in the world for FREE! All you have to do is to register for the modules in sequence and study in your own time to develop your education skills. All of the modules are suitable for teachers, school principals, staff of NGOs, or even for trained teachers about to volunteer to help a developing country.
More Modules are being added each week so don’t delay in registering for the early Units which act as a gateway into more advanced topics.

We have written many times about this subject over the past 5 years, beginning with our critique of the School Sector Reform Plan (SSRP), developing a world class teacher training programme, and developing schools rather than building them!
Everything we have written is now coming home to roost as firstly, UNESCO create new education development goals based on quality instead of access, and secondly Nepal’s Ministry of Education admit that SSRP was a failure and had the wrong focus.
Specifically since 2011 we created a superb team of educationalists in Kathmandu who developed and implemented an outstanding school development programme. This was delivered to almost 200 schools and 2000 teachers in Kathmandu Valley:
Giving direction to this programme was the Quality Education Index (QEI), a tool developed to measure the necessary INPUTS to quality which could be applied pre and post programme implementation. Using educational constructs and Likert scales the Index measured any school on a scale of 0-100 based on students perceptions. This is a sound methodology and has been used around the world in differing education scenarios, but never in Nepal. Results across these schools showed an average quality increase of around 30% in the Index over 6 months, so for example if a school scored 60% pre development we would see an increase to 78% + post development. All achieved with limited resources, so imagine the effect if applied by the Ministry of Education!

During this work we also conducted an extensive research programme into Defining, Measuring, Developing Quality Education in Nepal which attempted to pull together many of the components into a cohesive approach. This included assessing previous global definitions of quality education, conducting hundreds of classroom observations, defining core essentials of quality, adapting the QEI, training teachers, developing school principals in leadership, and informing School Management Committees about governance. From this a clear framework of quality essentials in Nepal primary schools emerged and has now been written up and offered to the Ministry of Education as an aid to their creation of a new School Sector Development Plan (SSDP) with its focus on quality education. No reply yet though!!

We have reached a stage now where we are willing to release some of our intellectual capital to interested parties relating to the QEI, The Quality Framework, and our School Development Programmes. So if you would like to explore the possibility in receiving some of these please contact us fromhere and tell us something about yourself, what you would like to receive and how you would use it.

http://nepalschoolsaid.org/2016/02/02/free-online-learning/

Expat.com, réseau d’entraide francophone pour les expatriés ...

"Expat-blog.com qui devient Expat.com, est un vaste réseau d’entraide pour les expatriés.

Il dispose d’un volet pour le Népal.

Créé en 2005 sous le nom d’Expat-blog, Expat.com propose gratuitement des informations et des conseils pour vous aider dans votre projet de vie au Népal et ailleurs. Après 10 ans, le site change de nom pour mieux répondre à nos besoins d’expatriés.

Expat.com vous permet de rentrer en contact avec les expatriés, d’échanger avec eux mais aussi de les rencontrer près de chez vous, notamment en organisant des événements, sorties... Découvrez aussi les expériences des expatriés au Népal sur le forum ou à travers leurs témoignages, trouvez des offres d’emploi ou immobilières et bien plus encore! La situation actuelle au Népal n’est pas idéale mais ce forum peut servir de lieu de partage d’idées tant pour celles et ceux y résidant que désirant y aller.

« Expat.com est un outil complet pour vous accompagner tout au long de votre expatriation. »