{"id":47720,"date":"2026-05-14T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47720"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:15:36","slug":"wb-to-assist-nepal-in-educational-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wb-to-assist-nepal-in-educational-development\/","title":{"rendered":"WB to assist Nepal in educational development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, May 14: The World Bank (WB) has said that it will provide the possible assistance to Nepal for educational development.<\/p>\n<p>Country Director of the World Bank, David Sislen, conveyed this during a meeting with Minister for Education, Science and Technology, Sasmit Pokhrel, at the Ministry of Education today.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, discussions were held between them on improving the education sector, expanding infrastructure, and promoting a technology-friendly education system. The World Bank has expressed a particular interest in further investment and collaboration in school and educational infrastructure development.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry has stated that discussions were held also on making partnerships more effective to expand access to long-term reforms and quality education.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Pokharel, while providing information about the government&#8217;s priorities, stated that the development of educational infrastructure, strengthening of &#8216;foundation learning&#8217;, and the expansion of &#8216;digitisation&#8217; and technology in education have been promoted as the government&#8217;s main &#8216;agenda&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 14: The World Bank (WB) has said that it will provide the possible assistance to Nepal for educational development. Country Director of the World Bank, David Sislen, conveyed this during a meeting with Minister for Education, Science and Technology, Sasmit Pokhrel, at the Ministry of Education today. On the occasion, discussions were held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16,12,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-economy","category-foreign-affairs","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47722,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47720\/revisions\/47722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}