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| Biswo |
Posted
on 11-Feb-01 11:07 PM
What follows is the news item taken from national daily
Samacharpatra. I am posting it for our readers to 'enjoy':
The education qualification of our ministers:
1.Girija Prasad Koirala: 12 class
2.Palten Gurung: 12 class
3.Shivaraj Joshi: 12 class (minister)
4.Surendra Hamal: SLC
5.Pushkar Ojha: bachelor(14 class?)
6.Romi Guachan: 12 class
7.Mahendra Raya:12 class
8.Khum Bdr Khadka: Bachelor
9.Suresh Malla: Masters
10.Ram Krishna Tamrakar: Bachelor
11.Tirtha Ram Dangol: Bachelor
12.Aftab Alam: Bachelor
13.Narendra Nembang:Bachelor
14.Gopal Rai: Bachelor
15.Hari Sapkota: Bachelor
16. Mahadev Gurung: Bachelor
17.Shiva Basnet: bachelor
18.Ram Hari Dhungel: Bachelor
19.Janak Giri: Bachelor
20.Ram Chandra Paudel: Masters
21.Govinda Raj Joshi: Masters
22.Chakra Bastola: Masters
23.Siddha Raj Ojha:Masters
24.Jaya Prakash Gupta: Masters
25.Mahesh Acharya: Masters
26.Baldev Majgaiya: Masters
27.Kamala Panta: Masters
28.Dilendra Badu: Masters
29.Amod Upadhyaya: Bachelor
30.Benup Prasai: Masters
31.Krishna Sitaula: Masters
32.Mahantha Thakur: Masters
33.Surendra Chaudhari: Masters
34.Prakash Koirala: Masters
35.Ram Sharan Mahat: PhD
36.Keshar Man Rokka: SLC
37.???
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| ashu |
Posted
on 12-Feb-01 11:41 AM
Having higher formal academic credentials are
important and essential for many appointed/hired
types of jobs: university professorships, heads of
international non-party political institutions,
and so on. For instance, if you don't have
an advanced degree in finance/accounting/business,
the the chances of your ever being a CFO at a
Fortune 500 or an established Nepali company
are slim.
But higher formal academic credentials are NOT
important and essential for many ELECTED public
jobs.
Being a CFO at any company company in the world
is NOT an elected position.
Being a politician in any country IS an elected
position.
That is why, I see very little positive
correlation between a Nepali politician's
academic achievements/attainments and his/
her effectiveness as a leader.
Rather than put too much faith academic credentails,
the questions I would ask to judge our political
leaders are these:
a) how do they handle setbacks and failures?
b) are they interested in surrounding themselves
with smart people, and leading those smart people
to come up with ideas/strategies and options for
all to do better?
c) can they communicate a vision, outline
a plan of action, and deliver the results as
best as they can?
If I, as a Nepali citizen, do not get satisfactory
answers to those questions from our politicians,
then I don't give a damn whether the politician
has a PhD from Harvard or a Doctorate from
Oxford.
Just my thoughts; please feel free to disagree.
oohi
ashu
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 12-Feb-01 01:44 PM
I agree with you that leadership matters, not the certificates,
for political leadership.
I posted the information just for making people informed about
our leaders.
Having said this, I must add that most of the developed nations
has educated leadership.Most of the nations in Africa and
in some parts of Asia have uneducated.Such(uneducated) leaders
often display intolerance to opponents and they also lack ability
to think about future very coherently.
And surely, I agree with your points.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 12-Feb-01 09:52 PM
You might be interested to know that a few years ago
the London-based magazine The Economist did a survey
and the outcome they came up with was this:
The Finance Ministers of the world's most developed
countries did not have PhDs, but just BAs or MAs or
law degrees.
But the Finance Ministers of the world's least
developed countries all had PhDs in economics
or related disciplines.
Given this, The Economist asked, tongue-in-cheek:
Whether the least developed countries remained least
developed precisely because their finance ministers
had such hi-fi formal credentials.
I think there's some truth to that. I'd rather
have a Finance Minister in Nepal who has run
his own business, even failed and thus has
learnt some hard lessons that are of relevance
to Nepal's thousands of entrepreneurs.
oohi
ashu
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