According to a recent update, the number of Nepali students pursuing educational courses in Australian Universities has increased.

The recently-released statistics show a rise in proportion of Nepali students by almost 46 percent to around 12,000 members out of the total 190,000 foreign students who had applied for courses in Australia during July-December 2017.

With this, Nepal replaced Brazil’s position as the third largest source of foreign student applicants for courses in Australia.

While Sydney’s Victoria University and Western Sydney University were found to be the major destinations for Nepali students, Auburn comes up as Sydney’s hub for Nepali speakers.

Interestingly, these figures are seen despite the indication of job-cuts in Australia for students from foreign destinations post the completion of their graduation.

Trend in the Recent Past

Nepal has witnessed an exponential growth as a source of international students in the last 10 years period.

The 2017 Open Doors Report by the Institute of International Education and the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, released in November 2017, has also shown a rise in Nepali students pursuing educational courses in US colleges and universities.

Surprisingly, Nepali students were found to be the fastest-growing international student community across US institutions.

“Every year, Nepali students travel to the United States to take advantage of outstanding opportunities for educational and professional development through hard work, thoughtful consideration about what course of study to pursue, careful financial planning, and an academic record that reflects good grades and test scores,” says US Chargé d’Affaires Michael Gonzales.

While US had 1.08 million international students as of November 2017, Nepal alone saw a 20 percent (around 11,607 students) rise in number of its students enrolled for higher education courses in US institutions.

As of November 2017, Nepal ranked 12 out of the top 25 countries with its students for undergraduate and graduate courses in US. Nepali students accounted for the highest growth rate of 42.4% for undergraduate courses among all the 25 countries.

India is another major source for Nepali students willing to pursue foreign studies. Lack of needed courses are moving Nepali students to look out for options outside the country.

“Hundreds of Nepali students are pursuing higher education degrees at Sharda University, and other universities also have a high number of Nepali students,” says Dube, a Nepali student pursuing MBA at Sharda University, Noida.

More than 500 Nepali students are pursuing higher education at Sharda University.

“Nepal basically lacks proper education policies. As a result, Nepali students have been investing a huge sum of money in higher education abroad,” says Prakash Pandey, president of Educational Consultancies Association of Nepal.

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These professional programs will be offered in collaboration with a Chinese university and an official agreement in this regard is expected to be signed in a couple of days.

Academicians lauded Nepal’s move at a recently-held three-day workshop jointly organized by Nepal’s Tribhuvan University (TU) and China’s Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Kathmandu.

They expressed hope that this facility would encourage Nepali students to pursue careers in the aforementioned engineering fields.

“We are very happy to introduce this important engineering program, which will be completely new to Nepali students. We believe such international collaboration can produce the capable human resources,” says TU Vice Chancellor Professor Tirtha Raj Khaniya.

Meanwhile, Professor Tri Ratna Bajracharya, Dean at the Institute of Engineering (IoE) said, “Since Nepal is a mountainous country where aviation is the most sought transport, this program will be very suitable for Nepali students.”

Bajracharya opined that these courses would fill the gaps in manpower requirement and produce globally-competitive and efficient professionals.

TU, which produces around 4,000 engineers annually, has signed MoU with 18 Chinese universities for courses in civil engineering, business and economics, medicine, among others.

TU’s IoE will begin the aeronautics and astronautics engineering courses for Bachelors-level students in the first phase, informed the officials.

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The country’s renowned Tribhuvan University (TU) revealed this as it reported a steady fall in number of students selecting Sanskrit, Maithali, Hindi and Nepal Bhasa literature Bachelors and Masters level, at its affiliated colleges.

While TU is offering these academic courses in more than 15 institutes across the country, most of them have only two students per course despite the existence of at least two permanent staff for each course.

“Students are free to choose what they want to study, we cannot force anyone to choose any particular subject. We, however, can go for proper management of these departments and lecturers across the country by centralizing these classes at one particular college,” says Prof Sudha Tripathi, Rector, TU.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Central Department of Sanskrit at TU Prof Narayan Gautam raised serious concerns over the situation.

“While the colleges in western countries are giving high priority to Sanskrit, we are burning our Sanskrit books, and how can expect our students to show interest in Sanskrit?” he noted.

Prof Narayan urged the government to introduce these languages at the high school level.

When it comes to Hindi courses, the Head of the Central Department of Hindi language at TU Prof Sanjeeta Burma expects more number of students for Hindi course in the future.

Currently, TU has appointed 13 permanent lecturers for Hindi course, 11 each for Maithali and for Nepal Bhasa and 8 for Sanskrit at its affiliated colleges across the country.

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