Let’s start with a brief history of TVET in Bhutan. The Royal Government of Bhutan, after having realized the importance of TVET, began the dialogue on it with the commencement of the first Five Year Plan in 1961. Thus, in 1964, Bhutan’s first TVET was established to train Bhutanese youths in skill-based education in Rinchending, [...]
Category: Education
The “QUALITY” of education comes yet again
The National Council of Bhutan deliberated at length on the Bhutanese education during its 17th Session in 2016. The deliberation lead to the formation of a Special Committee for Education to carry out a review study to better understand the situation of education in Bhutan. The Special Committee, comprising of six members [Honourable NC members], [...]
How Good Is our Education System
With current political campaign in full swing promising many important pledges by both the parties gearing towards General Election in Bhutan, I liked one of the pledges: doing away examination till class VI and providing opportunities for all [those who pass class X] to study till class XII. There are debates of this pledge not [...]
Education; Text books; Students and Quality in Bhutan
Education in Bhutan began with monastic schools and it was during the reign of the second King of Bhutan, His Majesty Jigme Wangchuck that Bhutan opened its first secular schools with “Hindi” as the medium of instruction borrowed from India. Recognizing the importance of communicating with rest of the world, it was the third King [...]
