Youth Pages

The SLC was a dreaded exam through generations of students. Now it’s been replaced with a new grading system, the SEE.

Young ultra-runner, Mira Rai, grew up in a village in the eastern district of Bhojpur. As a young girl, she joined a local Maoist platoon – it was under the Maoist conflict – where she learned not only guerilla warfare…

What’s the rap stage like in Hetauda? Well, we didn’t know there was one until Ashmin Parajuli – aka Inkie – told us about it.

Who says computer programming is only for boys? Rojina Bajracharya, a young Bachelor student from Bhaktapur, just won a Toptal Scholarship for Female Developers! Who is Toptal? Well, it’s one of the fastest-growing companies to emerge from Silicon Valley in…

Students going to school in Temporary Learning Centers (TLCs) – built after the earthquake – have started to fall ill in worrying numbers. Most TLCs are built of tin sheets without any insulation, so wind and humid cold air easily…

Will this year’s SLC students have a better chance than, say, last year’s class? Well, it was always hard to get through the “Iron Gate”: 10th graders have had to struggle a lot – the pass rate is barely 35…

We spent an afternoon down by the river outside Narayanghat watching the children play. Sure, those kids don’t have Ipads or mobile phones – there’s no swings or children’s bikes either. But as this video will show, they have so…

Congratulations U-19 team! The U-19 national soccer team of Nepal did it for the first time ever! They are now SAFF Champions after defeating all South Asian opponents. Wow!! Left in the unforgiving trail of young Nepalese boots lie Bhutan…