Around 500 students stand ready to file the case soon With the case against Bhutan Employment Overseas (BEO) underway, the ‘learn and earn’ program is now strictly under the scrutiny of the government, with officials visiting Japan recently. Nearly 500 youth have given signed power of attorney to file the …

JDWNRH says deaths mainly due to complications from premature birth The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) unit of JDWNRH had 22 cases of infant death until 10th April this year. 18 were pre-mature births and four were term babies. Out of 22 cases of death, nine were in January, two …

Five Japanese lawyers stand ready to file cases against BEO’s partner SND in Japan In another alleged breach of contract by the agent, Bhutan Employment Overseas (BEO), the agent and its counterpart in Japan, SND, had introduced Bhutanese students to a new scheme to obtain a working visa, for which …

Following the visit of the two parents’ representatives, two officials from Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR) and one official from Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) reached Japan on 11th April. While the visit of the parents’ representative was to assess the ground reality of Bhutanese youths in Japan, …

Parents say the children that have come back from Japan are not the same More than 500 youths are ready to file cases and more are expected Over four hundred parents and students of the ‘learn and earn’ program gathered on 7th April to discuss the case against the agent, …

Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) will be included as an optional stream starting from 2020 academic session. This was endorsed by the education ministry during the 19th national education conference in December 2018. TVET is like any other streams and would concentrate on building skills, said the education minister. …

The biggest trash tag challenge in the country took place last weekend saw an overwhelming turnout of 2,103 volunteers all across the country to take up the famous trash tag challenge which is trending on social media these days.  Over 3,997 sacks of wastes from all the dzongkhags were collected. …

The Prime Minister had earlier said that the pledge for free nutritious lunch in schools within 120 days had intentionally been labeled as achieved, although it is actually not implemented in schools, since a lot of effort has been in it and it had been approved by the cabinet after …

While most of the parents and students in the ‘earn and learn’ will be filing a case against the agent, Bhutan Employment Overseas (BEO) by April on the ground of breach of contract and youth exploitation, many also blamed the Labour Ministry and the government for being protective of the …

The Bhutan PISA-D National Report was launched yesterday. The report was on the performance of 15-year-old students in Reading, Mathematics and Scientific Literacy. Some of the major findings of the report are that the students performed slightly better in Reading and Scientific Literacy in comparison to Mathematical Literacy and while …