Prakash C Bhattarai

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• PhD
• Professor at Kathmandu University

Ethics is an important part of administrative behavior for a head schoolteacher. A school often proceeds in the path of success if it is led by an ethically sound leader. However, professional ethics are largely thought to emerge from the conscience of the administrator. This article is based on a study undertaken with the purpose of identifying ho...

Early marriage is one of the major traditional practices that affects the life of both boys and girls in many different ways. In this context, this research assessed the prevalence of early marriage and derived its underlying causes. Adopting a mixed methods approach, first, the study surveyed a sample of 1350 households of Nepal in which at least...

In the context of cultural diversity and democratization in Nepal, ethical decision making with the central focus on the paradigms of care, justice, and critique is perceived as highly imperative in the life of school principals. However, the way each principal decides to remain ethical differs in practice as his or her own individual and school co...

Corruption goes along with the meaning of dishonesty, treachery and untruthfulness. However, the exact meaning is difficult to arrive at as it varies depending on the various perspectives. For the West, it is more associated with the deceitful act for personal economic benefit, whereas it is not limited to the monetary profit in the context of Nepa...

Headteachers in the community schools are responsible for academic and administrative activities. They are considered role models for integrity practices. However, the situation is different on some occasions. For instance, political interest plays more important roles than qualifications, training, work experience, etc., in school affairs. In this...

Entrepreneurship is shaped by personality traits and driven by personal intention, and it is crucial for economic mobility and societal progress. Despite being an underexplored area, the relationship between traits and entrepreneurial intention is vital for understanding how educational entrepreneurs differ from non-entrepreneurs. This study used a...

The framework of circular economy (CE) has emerged as a sustainable alternative to a waste-generating linear economy. To achieve this goal long term, it is important to educate youth. The levels of knowledge, attitude, and behaviour (KAB) among developed countries and developing countries differ. However, there are limited comparative studies. Our...

This paper presents a study that explores how individuals become entrepreneurs in the context of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Nepal. The study specifically considers the sources and avenues of obtaining entrepreneurial knowledge and skills. This focal point is highly significant, because ultimately it is the entrepreneurs’ knowledge base a...

Adolescent and youth girls’ empowerment is as crucial as that of women. However, research on women’s empowerment has received more attention than studies focused on adolescent and young girls. To address this gap, a scale was constructed and administered to 325 girls from Rupandehi, Nepal, to explore the factors influencing adolescent and youth gir...

'Homestay tourism' occupies significant space in Nepal's tourism sector, and these homestays are mostly operated by women, who are often informally educated and have less access to modern skills and knowledge-gaining opportunities. However, limited information is available on rural women's experiences in such endeavors. This paper elaborates the ex...

This study was conducted to explore the relationship between actors of education and employment systems in Nepali Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system. The study measured the engagement of actors from both systems in the curriculum process: design, application, and feedback phases. Further, it explained why the actors of th...

The findings suggest that due to multiple types of perceived as well as experienced benefits from community homestay tourism, locals have enthusiastically learned and adopted homestay enterprising, in which local-level institutional facilitation and support activities have become main motivators in the processes. In such areas, gradual increase in...

Community homestay development is one of the strategies to culture-based accommodation, mostly in the rural and remote settlements in Nepal. Homestay tourism has been in practice for more than two decades, and it is rapidly spreading in many parts of the country. This article attempts to bring the views and experiences of community homestay operato...

The production, selection, and storage of the seeds used for cultivation in Nepal are done in two ways: traditional and modern. Conventional ways of storing and reusing seeds depend on indigenous and traditional techniques, whereas modern techniques depend on the different agencies performing scientific agricultural breeding and storage techniques....

Climate change is a serious contemporary issue around the world. Adolescents are mostly affected due to climate change. Thus, they are expected to behave in an environmentally appropriate manner, which requires the identification of factors influencing pro-sustainable behavior/pro-environmental behavior. The literature offers a wide range of factor...

explain 19%. Financial management (38.3%) and creative engagement of staff in decision-making (26%) stand out as significant contributors, suggesting a need for targeted capacity-building efforts in these areas to enhance CSO governance. The study provides valuable insights for Confirmatory Factor Analysis and future longitudinal studies on the rol...

This study explores how Nepali professors engage in informal learning practices in their workplace and identify the potential for creating a conducive learning environment We conducted in-depth interviews with five Nepali professors using a qualitative case study approach to explore their informal learning experiences at their workplace. The study...

Higher entrepreneurial traits significantly increase the likelihood of graduate students venturing into entrepreneurship. This study intended to develop a scale for assessing the entrepreneurial traits of graduate students, recognizing a gap in existing literature and measurement tools predominantly developed for countries with conducive entreprene...

The main intent of inclusive education is to include diversity in terms of access to education. Hence, inclusive education is of tremendous significance to a country like Nepal, which has so much diversity. However, the strategies formulated by the inclusive education policies in Nepal still follow a narrow definition of inclusive education, though...

This study explores the level of service quality and member satisfaction within the context of Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOS) in Nepal. By using data from a survey of 1209 randomly selected SACCOS members, the study dealt with the demographic composition, service quality perceptions, and member satisfaction levels across three distinct SA...

This study was conducted to measure the mediating effect of employees’ education on their service quality and customer satisfaction at selected resorts in Nepal. Six components of the contextualized SERVQUAL instrument were used to measure service quality and customer satisfaction. All components of service quality were not significant, with a posi...

This study introduces Multi-dimensional Disparity Index (MDI) to measure multi-form of disparity in different level of governments referencing Nepal. The measurement scale of MDI was developed by adopting Santos and Alkire’s (2011) approaches. A wide range of thematic experts was consulted, employing the Semi-Delphi approach to determine its dimens...

Travel and mobility restrictions to contain COVID-19 forced many hotels to shut down their business completely or partially. As a result, the hotel sector was hit hard financially. Consequently, majority of the employees of the sector lost their job or were employed with reduced work hours. It affected their financial and psychological aspects. How...

Successful leadership is imperative for a cooperative to flourish. However, there is limited literature concerning leadership qualities in the context of cooperatives, most particularly in cooperatives in the global south. This study applied the participatory Delphi research technique to identify effective leadership qualities in the context of com...

The main purpose of this study was to identify the role of social capital mainly comprising of family and friends in influencing the wellbeing of a person, particularly of a female student. Considering its importance of investigation how family and friendship can influence the development stage of a young girl which is primarily determined by emoti...

A gatekeeper's role in an ethnographic study has hardly been explored. Considering this, this article presents an ethnographic study of Nepali homestays' learning in which a gatekeeper was used as an intermediary to enter the research site and have access to the research participants. The key steps and processes we adopted while selecting and worki...

This study presents the processes applied in developing and validating Nepali Classroom Management Practices (CMPS) and Nepali Teachers' Self-Efficacy (NTSE) instruments. The instruments were developed using the e-Delphi technique. To find the consensus benchmark of the responses, the study used a five-point Likert scale and used Microsoft Excel to...

This study aims to assess whether or not perceived training transfer differs across personal and professional attributes of the instructors of technical vocational education and training (TVET) in Nepal. Gender, marital status and age were assessed under personal attributes and type of institution based on ownership, locale of the institutions and...

The paper presents findings from a study that explores and understands the personal attributes of educational entrepreneurship. The study employs a sequential mixed methods design, administering a survey followed by a case study to collect data from private higher secondary school owners and teachers of the Lalitpur District, Nepal. The survey resu...

This paper presents the factors associated with service users’ confidence in receiving public services in Nepal. The factors were taken from National Governance Survey 2017/ 18 (N=7334). The survey respondents were randomly selected from 43 of 77 districts of Nepal by using four-stage multiple cluster sampling from the service users who received pu...

This study explores the environmental factors that affect the transfer of training among technical education instructors in Nepal. In the exploration, a scale with 40 items was constructed by utilizing Delphi technique. Then, a survey was carried out on 251 instructors who completed instructional skills-related training. The result of Exploratory F...

Dilemmas in decision-making are prevalent among school head-teachers. However, studies on how dilemmas are addressed and how their multi-dimensional aspects impact school education quality have not been carried out. With this consideration, a narrative study was conducted to explore how community school head-teachers address ethical dilemmas to ens...

A key issue for teachers working in public secondary schools in Nepal is their confidence in their capability to complete the tasks associated with their professional activities. With this consideration, a study was carried out to explore the factors contributing to Nepali teachers’ self-efficacy. To find out the factors, the study administered the...

Civil servants' integrity in delivering public service is the heart and soul of public sector governance worldwide, including in Nepal. Ensuring a higher level of integrity for civil servants is complex, as it is affected by several factors. With this consideration, this study aims to examine the factors affecting the integrity of civil servants in...

Studies on employability using a mixed methods (MM) design have been published in relevant journals in recent years, paving the way for a meaningful engagement with these published articles so that researchers can create milestone documents dedicated to exploring employability. This study explored the trend of utilizing mixed methods research (MMR)...

Successful transition from universities to the industry is essential for engineering students. The transition becomes comfortable to the students if employers find them to be equipped with the necessary employable skills. However, employability has hardly been prioritized in the research of engineering education. To this end, a sequential explanato...

The Chepang community of Nepal has been knowingly and unknowing utilizing their indigenous knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the form of societal functioning and cultural rituals. The study outlines best practices from indigenous knowledge interlinked with scientific knowledge and its contribution to DRR. Chepang community has developed...

One may divide the political history of Nepal into four distinct periods: the democratic system, the Panchayati system, the Rana era/regime, and the republican federal government system. Written laws have been adopted throughout history in unison with Nepal's political evolution to regulate the governmental apparatus. The first constitution of Nepa...

This ethnographic study provides a rich portrait of Head Teachers’ (HT) ethical decision- making practices for motivating subordinates and enabling the overall performance of Nepali community schools. Data were generated from in-depth interviews, observations, reflective writings and facts/figures from three community schools and their stakeholders...

Job Satisfaction (JS) and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) are both considered crucial in an organizational setting. The association between JS and OCB promotes school effectiveness on multiple levels. With this consideration, this research aimed to examine the relationship between them, following a post-positivist philosophy with a cross-...

A study of six different airlines has been performed using a case study method, in which a full range of leadership development theories and themes, as well as organizational performance measurement themes to measure organizational performance have been used. Three failure airlines and three successful airlines were chosen for the study. The scope...

The civic space survey was conducted to understand the views and perspectives of CSOs on human rights, democracy, the right to freedom, and the right of association in Nepal. The survey is mainly focused on human rights and civic space during COVID-19. The survey covered the perception of people's right to freedom, right to assemble peacefully, med...

With the data (N = 9718) from Nepal National Governance Survey 2017/18 of those who took public services in a year, this article examined the factors that drove service users to pay bribes to service providers. The result showed that the perception of service users that service providers comply with the rules; they are responsive to inform/listen/r...

Successful leadership is imperative for a cooperative to flourish. However, there is limited literature concerning leadership qualities in the context of cooperatives, and most particularly in cooperatives in the global south. This study applied the participatory Delphi research technique to the task of identifying effective leadership qualities in...

The purpose of writing this article is to demonstrate that the case study methodology can be very useful in the exploration of inclusion in education. As evidence, the authors have presented their experiences of using a case study methodology to study inclusive education with a particular focus on girls with visual disability and their school conte...

In the last few decades, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) expanded significantly in Nepal. However, the actors of TVET are uncoordinated and are implementing programmes with fragmented governance. The international experience shows TVET fund is one of the approaches to coordinate fragmented TVET stakeholders and enhance the qu...

Technical Education in Community School (TECS) is considered pertinent for the socio-economic transformation, particularly in a developing country like Nepal. Instructors of these schools are the key persons who transform curriculum into practice, however, their profession in their perspectives was hardly studied. With this consideration, this stud...

Headteachers in the community schools are responsible for academic and administrative activities. They are considered role models for integrity practices. However, the situation is different on some occasions. For instance, political interest plays more important roles than qualifications, training, work experience, etc., in school affairs. In this...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the interdependent relationship between knowledge management and the academic performance of faculty members in higher educational institutions (HEIs) in Nepal. Design/methodology/approach This study applied survey research to identify the interdependencies between knowledge management and academic p...

Employment sector has been invariably affected in the current crisis resulting from the global pandemic of COVID-19. This demands a paradigm shift in the present way of intervention in the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector through short and long-term strategies.

In February 2020, Department of Development Education at Kathmandu University School of Education (KUSOED) was assigned by World Vision International Nepal (WVIN) to undertake a study on the role of religion and culture to tackle the economic vulnerability and the root causes of early marriage in Nepal in order to produce recommendations on strateg...

Rice is a major cereal crop that ensures food security and rural income generation in Nepal. The objectives of this study were to analyse the dynamics of the rice sub-sector from the perspective of production, research investment, and supply chain as expected outcomes are not yet achieved in spite of continuity in priority for research and producti...

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This study presents the socio-economic indicators to represent and measure level of socio- economic and other forms of discriminations across 753 Local Units and the 7 provincial level governments in Nepal. The study, in this sense, attempts to quantify and measure socio-economic discrimination level across all the newly created LG Units and provin...

Prior research has paid little attention to the field of strategic actions of micro and small enterprises (MSEs). Hence, this paper explores the experiences of MSEs on their strategic actions from the perspective of social practice. A qualitative inquiry was conducted by interviewing MSEs for gaining their insights, experiences, and understandings...

Ethics of care, a paradigm for mutual respect, compassion and attention to others in an organization, is considered as the most indispensable and unavoidable for a workplace. Particularly, it is essential in TVET schools as the students are mostly from diverse cultural, family and learning backgrounds and many of them require emotional and psycholo...

The determining fee structure has been discussed from the emergence of private/institutional schools in Nepal. The school owners, parents and policy makers/implementers have their own sets of arguments. Largely, the school owners are in favor of complete privatization with very little interference from the government. However, government is in su...

The study of ethical leadership is very important to cultivate professional practices and integrity in schools and their principals. This concern is particularly imperative to the principals of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector, where there is the need of immediate reform. Therefore, a convergent mixed method study w...

Transparency International Nepal (TIN) is pleased to release the report National Integrity System Assessment Nepal 2014. It describes the latest status of 11 pillars of NIS in terms of their capacity, governance and role besides pointing out the gap between laws and practices. The National Integrity System of Nepal shows vulnerability of key instit...

Despite a number of NFE programs (adult literacy, women education program, income generation program, CLC) and the national literacy campaign, Nepal remained far back in meeting the target because of motivation. There is still a gap between the literate and non-literate (Acharya &Koirala, 2006, p. 1; Acharya, 2003) population. The perception and pr...

It is national integrity assessment of Nepal.

The flocks of intellects from Nepal leaving their country for better opportunities in a foreign land are often meant to brain-drain. It drains more resources from the home country when those educated in their home country emigrate for better careers and life than those who study abroad and do not return. This continuous flow of skilled human resour...

The trend of occurring reality in understanding and practicing corruption is largely dependent upon the mode of its presentation and publicity throughout writing. It is, therefore, essential to look deep into the way that corruption is narrated and revealed in the course of literature. To find the current exhaustive articles, the word 'corruption'...

This is an assessment of seasonal factors impacting school attendance in selected schools of the Karnali zone in order to produce recommendations on strategies to reduce student and teacher absenteeism in the region. The study collected qualitative and quantitative data through focus group discussion, interactions, structured questionnaires and sch...