Nepal, July 20 -- Amid a rising clamour from politicians and others for tightly stringing together higher education and the job market, a disparate voice is trying to make itself heard. This voice emphasises that a broad-scale, multidisciplinary education and intense student engagement that promotes independent thinking and writing-and one that is topped by specialisation in a major discipline-provides the best education both for self-growth as well as job access and performance. This is the stance of those who favour the "liberal arts" mould of education. Among those in this mould in Nepal today are the neophytes: The University of Nepal and the Master's in History and Philosophy programme of Kathmandu University. This is a step in the r...