Dec 30, 2002
Wholesome education, an important priority for educationists, should be inculcated in the minds of the students through lessons taught in the classes if the teachers carry out their duties well.A session on the issue at the sixth annual education conference (AEC) raised a list of drawbacks in schools, hindering the implementation of wholesome education.
There is book knowledge and there is practical knowledge, and the students should be mindful of both, said the education minister, Lyonpo [... Read More]
Dec 30, 2002
More than 100 heads of institutions and schools and education planners, meeting in Paro for the annual education conference this week, agreed to draw up comprehensive guidelines to strengthen and improve school management, emphasising school-community relationship.The standard guideline will enhance the organizational and management skills of the school heads and encourage team management instead of personal or individual management, said the director general of education, Pema Thinley.
An important aspect of the school management guideline is [... Read More]
Dec 30, 2002
The planning commission secretariat (PCS) intranet, a web site which will connect all 20 dzongkhags with each other and with the center, will be functional soon, according to a spokesman from the PCS.It is a sort of wide area network (WAN), through which all the staff in the dzongkhags can share information, said Sonam Phuntsho of the planning commission. For example, a Trashigang user will know about the latest prices of consumer goods in [... Read More]
Dec 29, 2002
The governor-general of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson, arrived in Thimphu today evening (December 29) on a 12-day private visit.
The Canadian governor-general Adrienne Clarkson and her husband being received by foreign minister lyonpo Jigmi Y. Thinley at the Paro international airport
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During her stay in the kingdom, the governor general is scheduled to visit [... Read More]
The governor-general of Canada, Adrienne Clarkson, arrived in Thimphu today evening (December 29) on a 12-day private visit.
The Canadian governor-general Adrienne Clarkson and her husband being received by foreign minister lyonpo Jigmi Y. Thinley at the Paro international airport
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During her stay in the kingdom, the governor general is scheduled to visit [... Read More]
Dec 27, 2002
The former gup of Phongmey geog in Trashigang, Dorji Phuntsho, was sentenced by the Trashigang district court to six years in prison for misuse of power and fraud.Dorji Phuntsho was found guilty of claiming false death insurance for four people who are still alive. He had taken Nu. 20,000 as insurance claims in 2000 and another Nu. 20,000 in 2001 by submitting forged documents during his second tenure as gup.
According to drangpon Sangay Khandu, [... Read More]
Dec 27, 2002
The royal insurance corporation of Bhutan (RICB), the only insurance company in the kingdom, is wooing the rural population with a variety of schemes including a life insurance policy which, it hopes, will help overcome the superstitions surrounding discussions on death.
Understanding life insurance
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The company has just completed a tour of seven eastern and central [... Read More]
The royal insurance corporation of Bhutan (RICB), the only insurance company in the kingdom, is wooing the rural population with a variety of schemes including a life insurance policy which, it hopes, will help overcome the superstitions surrounding discussions on death.
Understanding life insurance
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The company has just completed a tour of seven eastern and central [... Read More]
Dec 27, 2002
An 18-year old school boy is recovering from a knife wound at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital and the 25-year old man who stabbed him is in police custody while the case is under investigation.Police said that the stabbing took place at about 6.00 pm on December 24, near the Zangtopelri shopping mall.
Vikash Rai, a Class VIII student of Chhoden lower secondary school, and two friends were crossing the road when Lhakpa Tshering [... Read More]
Dec 27, 2002
With the acquittal of two civil aviation employees by the Thimphu district court late yesterday afternoon, the gold smuggling saga, which began on September 23, has been finally closed.Pema Tenzin and Sonam Jamtsho were charged for bribery and abetting a crime. However, after the police and the prosecution failed to establish the facts and furnish proof, the presiding drangpon, Tshering Dorji, pronounced them acquitted.
The district court has, however, directed the department of civil aviation to [... Read More]
Dec 27, 2002
Bhutan has about 136,000 students studying under 4,200 teachers in about 700 schools and institutes, according to a report presented by the education monitoring and service support division (EMSSD) during the annual education conference in Paro this week.With 445 teachers joining in 2002, the teacher pupil ratio has also improved from 1:35 to 1:31 at the national level.
While this statistically indicated that there was no teacher shortage in Bhutanese schools the effective delivery of [... Read More]
Dec 27, 2002
In its bid to collect about Nu. 15 million in outstanding dues the state trading corporation of Bhutan (STCB) has filed court cases against 20 of its debtors which include some senior government officials.With some dues being 20 to 30 years old STCB filed cases against nine people last year and hopes to eventually collect unpaid bills from 100 or so clients through the court.
We are going to court because our debtors have failed to [... Read More]
