PM Oli, who is also chancellor of the Tribhuvan University, has approved the resignation tendered by the university’s vice-chancellor, Keshar Jung Baral.
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Thu Apr 10 2025
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who is also the ex officio chancellor of the Tribhuvan University, has approved the resignation tendered by the university’s vice-chancellor, Keshar Jung Baral, barely a year after his appointment.
Baral, appointed VC of the country’s largest and oldest university during the premiership of Pushpa Kamal Dahal in February 2024, reportedly on the basis of educational qualification, training, contribution to academic research, interview and presentations and on the recommendation of a panel under the then Education, Science and Technology Minister Ashok Rai, had tendered his resignation at the Prime Minister’s Office through his aide 12 days ago.
Baral had decided to quit, reportedly in response to considerable political pressure after the change of guard in July 2024.
It should be noted that political interference has been going on unabated in Nepal's academic institutions for years, especially in state-owned ones, compromising their autonomy and destabilizing the academic sector.
At least a section of the academia has been demanding that the chancellor should be from the academia, to little avail.
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