t is high time stakeholders reviewed the existing teaching-learning techniques as well as Nepal’s education policy that contributed to a rapid decline in students’ interest in science and mathematics, experts said. Speaking at an interaction programme organised by the Nepal Forum of Science Journalists in Kathmandu today, Sarbajit Prasad Mahato, Secretary at the Ministry of Science and Technology, said that there was an urgent need to review the existing policies so that the stakeholders could do something specific to increase the students’ learning habit about science and mathematics.Presenting a synopsis on “Learning Science and Mathematics: Decline in Learning Habit”, Pravin Raj Joshi, Director of Brihaspati Vidya Sadan, said that the growing numbers of students abandoned science and mathematics at both school and college levels of late. “Rapid decline in the learning habit among students indicates that there is something missing in the existing teaching-learning process,” he said, “The alarming factors in Nepali context are: failure to connect the science and maths lessons with the real society, fixed but negative mindset of the parents and their kids towards the output of the subjects, lack of intervention from the policy makers and educationists and mismanagement of the science and maths products among others.”The educationists also urged for the immediate intervention from the stakeholders, especially the government agencies, to regain the glory of maths and science in the country’s educational sector.
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