Nepal's Ministry of Education has recently announced that the minimum number of days mandatory classes is to be set at 220. This is against a background level of between 100-150 which is so low mostly due to a range of political activities including teacher strikes and national political strikes. It is the national strikes, or bandhas, as they are known in Nepal which cause the most chaos. On such days enforcement is usually comprehensive and violent.
Overall this is a good national decision and it now gives us "licence" to state a specific contractual requirement of our sponsored teachers. In fact this was on the cards anyway after we discovered one teacher taking time out of his teaching duties to spend a few days helping with the "harvest"!
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