Collaborative Schools Network

The Collaborative Schools Network (CSN) is not the only organisation crazy enough to think we can improve public (government-funded) schools. All around the world different forms of public-private partnerships are testing out new ways to transform public education. In the Liberia the government has invited a number of private organisations to manage public schools in … Continue reading We are not the only crazy ones: PPPs around the world

No blog post in 2 months, either means we are very lazy or very busy. We are not very lazy. Here’s the news: Our third school: We have adopted our third school, Balkumari Lower Secondary School. It has 100 students and our aim is to make it the top school in the community, and grow … Continue reading 2 months’ news in 2 minutes

I’ve always remembered the scene in ‘The Untouchables’ where a mortally wounded Jimmy Malone (Sean Connery) grabs Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) and with his dying breath, rasps, “What are you prepared to do?” Malone was asking Ness, as he had done a couple of times earlier in the film, how far he was prepared to go … Continue reading What are you prepared to do?

Every day, one of our older students reads something out in English during morning assembly. This is what one student read this week:

Today there was a nationwide strike in Nepal. Strikes, or ‘bandas’, are commonplace in the country. Bandas have long been a popular form of protest. They are typically called and enforced by political parties who block road junctions to stop traffic movement or force shops to remain closed. Those who dare break the banda risk … Continue reading Every school in Nepal was closed today… except ours

Before Collaborative Schools joined Jana Uddhar, once a year the school would take the students out of class for a day and march them around the community holding up a banner, in an effort to attract new students. It had zero impact. Our approach is different. We go out and visit every single parent, sit down and drink … Continue reading What we learned from visiting every single student’s home