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Amidst the ongoing lockdown to prevent Covid-19 pandemic, Kantipur City College (KCC) has been running classes virtually for several of its programs.

“Teachers and students both are getting a new experience of virtual classroom due to this situation,” says Raju Kattel, Principal of KCC.

KCC has been conducting online classes for Master of Computer Application (MCA) first and third semesters, Master of Arts in Mass Communication and Journalism (MAMCJ) first and third semesters and Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application (PGDCA) first semester students.

Despite limitations in the internet infrastructure and even electricity in these days, students from different places have been participating for the online classes.

MCA I Semester Web Programming Class by Lilaram Sapkota

3. promotion (or lingering in same class) to upper level-semester
4. sitting for exams (or facing prolonged uncertainty about them)
5. paying (or not paying) fees (dues) for education due to parental inability forced by loss of their income
6. fear of being disadvantaged (or lagging behind peers) because of their personal (family) backdrop, geographical location, accessibility to ICT and financial ability

Those worries are really tall for youths in their adolescence. They cannot tackle them themselves. Parents and Colleges cannot respond to those tensions by themselves. They need support from all stakeholders of education. Government, Universities and financiers should join hands first to understand the agonizing problems biting students and then undertake suitable measures to support them. If this is not done there is risk of outbreak of depression among youths which will prove more dangerous than the virus which forced the strategy of lock-down and stay at home over the past month or so.

Urgent measures to respond to the situation could be

1. Guaranteeing continuity of education at all levels as per University calendar
2. Ensuring access to teachers concerned for keeping students’ knowledge/skills refreshed
3. Assuring promotion to upper level (on the basis of internal assessment of Colleges concerned or short cut but safe and standard mode of examination under appropriate supervision)
4. Aiding students and also Colleges financially under an adequate, transparent modality to continue their functions in modified ways
5. Counseling for reshaping way of life during and after COVID-19 crisis

The measures cannot be taken in accordance with the prevailing rules and regulations of Colleges and Universities for the situation is unprecedented. Universities and Colleges, high decision makers, planners and policy makers and other stakeholders of education, should therefore work out an emergency-strategy for changing rules and regulations for coping with the crisis. They cannot take long for developing such a strategy. They do not have any option either. Negligence in this regard could be disastrous for higher education sector in this regard.

History of Nepal indicates that stakeholders of education particularly higher education have at times promptly and appropriately responded to the challenges emerging suddenly in the country with a sense of responsibility and urgency.

All hope the same will be replicated this time and the youths punched today by tensions will find relief. A new era could emerge out of the confusion and strains inflicted by the COVID-19.

 

It is to inform you that Research advisor Dr. Gajendra Shrama and student of MCA Mr. Ravi Shrestha has jointly published research article on International Journal of Advanced Technology and Engineering Exploration, Vol 7(65). Congratulation and Thank you both of you.

https://www.accentsjournals.org/paperInfo.php?journalPaperId=1200
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Organized jointly by Kantipur City College and Bournemouth University, UK, a 3-day webinar on disaster journalism and crisis communication has concluded today.

Senior media expert Prof Rama Krishna Regmee delivered talk on what is crisis, why crisis communication, role of media during crisis and preparations for disaster reporting during the webinar.

“This Covid-19 pandemic is a public health crisis primarily,” he added, “and this makes it different than any other disasters.”

Bournemouth University professor Chindu Sreedharan shared theoretical aspects of disaster journalism. He, along with another professor Einar Thorsen, had studied Nepalese media in the aftermath of 2015 Gorkha earthquake. They have some publications on the same to their credit.

The webinar also featured sessions by broadcaster Janardan Bista on different issues of disaster journalism, journalist Yek Raj Pathak on the dynamics of crisis communication during Covid-19 pandemic, media educator Shreeman Sharma (Bigyan) on safety issues, and Rajiv Timalsina and Abhas Dharananda Rajopadhyaya on effects of lockdown and social distancing on disaster journalism.

The program was attended by graduate-level students, graduates, and journalists, researchers and media analysts, among others.

Chairman of Kantipur City College Suman Katwal, Managing Director Pralhad Karki and Principal Raju Kattel too addressed the program.

Kalpa Academy and Kantipur City College Program Series for “Supporting e-Education in Nepal through Governance Tools”

The Webinar Session on Higher Education Governance after a pandemic is being organized in Nepal against the backdrop of multiple ramifications of COVID-19 on society, economy,
education institutions’ works and individual students’ lives and living.

This Webinar Session will focus on Higher Education System Disruption-Response and how Good-Governance could be the right approach to facilitate higher education, teaching-learning digital way, and remote mode in a pandemic.

Organized by: Kalpa Academy Center for Governance and Sustainable Development with Kantipur City College

Supported by:
United Nation Sustainable Development Solution Network (UN-SDSN)
United Nation Sustainable Development Goals Academy (SGD-Academy)

As the need for sensitizing media students on Disaster Journalism and Crisis Communication (especially in the context of Covid-19 pandemics-induced difficulties in Nepal) was realized, the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Kantipur City College (KCC) conducted a webinar course in collaboration with Talbot Campus, Bournemouth University, England from 29 April till 1 May 2020. A total of 45 students and former graduates participated in the course, most of them being directly into mainstream journalism.

Pandemic and health-related media products that are comprehensible and useful to people in general are required in larger scale than ever before, but the working journalists in Nepal were seen to only seldom focus on what actually is required. The need for empirical, science-backed background-knowledge of health issues was highly realized.

In this backdrop, the webinar course on Disaster Journalism was conducted as a timely step to sensitize them about the theme and motivate them to produce media products which could be very useful in times of public health crisis.

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Faculty of Sciecne and Technology and Faulcty of Engineering,Purbanchal University has published entrance examination date and time today.

Three MA MCJ graduates from KCC has been awarded for their journalistic contributions by Rotary Intrnational. Among the awarded are Ajay Babu Shiwakoti (MA MCJ Batch 2005), Tika Bandhan (MA MCJ Batch 2007) and Kamala Hamal (MA MCJ Batch 2018).

Ajaya Babu Shiwakoti was awarded BaSu Rotary Vocational Award on good governance with a cash prize of five lakh rupees. He is currently Chief Editor at hamrakura.com. Similarly, Tika Bandhan was awarded as outstanding contributor to environment journalism, with a cash prize of 25 thousand rupees. He is currently working at Annapurna Post. Kamala Hamal was awarded as an outstanding contributor to journalism from Bagmati Province, with a cash prize of 25 thousand rupees. She is working at Janata Television.

The chief guest of this program, Shekhar Mehta, President of 2021-22 Rotary International presented the awards to the journalists. Kantipur City College congratulates all three awardees and is proud of their achievements.