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Article: High Spending Reported for Nepali Students Abroad
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 18, 1996
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Nepali students studying at universities abroad are spending much
more money than the country's prestigious state-run Tribhuvan
University, the Kathmandu Post reported today.
It said students going abroad for self-financed studies took away
from Nepal a hefty amount of 9 million U.S. dollars last year,
equivalent to 513 million rupees, more than 2.5 times the annual
budget of the Tribhuvan University.
According to the Education Ministry, nearly 4,900 Nepali students
have gone overseas for higher education since 1991 and 560 students
have left the country this year.
The Foreign Exchange Department ...