Kathmandu, March 19 -- Nepal's deepening economic woes and political perils can be attributed to the poorly managed education system, higher education to be specific, and its persistently pathetic outcomes. Global research during the last several decades has almost unequivocally established that there is a strong correlation and causality between underdevelopment and educational outcomes. When technical higher education fails to instil skills required for gainful employment, and humanities studies become unable to augment individuals' critical judgment by transforming them from 'brutes' into 'humans', the economy cannot produce, and democracy becomes dysfunctional. Instead, drafting youths for political regimentation of all sorts and for ...