Exploring Out-of-School Phenomenon in Nepal

Abstract

Out-of-School Children (OOSC) is an alarming educational issue, not only in Nepal but globally and especially at a time when global agenda like Sustainable Development Goals have many challenges to face. It questions the existence of a large number of OOSC that poses even greater challenge to the country in the context of ensuring free and compulsory education as a fundamental right envisioned by the constitution. Though the issue of OOSC is generally raised from development perspectives as rightbased issue in developing countries like Nepal, this research is intended to understand the complexities of Out-of-School (OOS) phenomenon and its major dynamics. Applying pragmatic research paradigm with a sequential explanatory mixed methods research, a holistic understanding has been made by merging both quantitative and qualitative findings. The quantitative part was focused on generalizing the relationship between different socio economic factors and OOS event while the qualitative part intended to explore the dynamics of those factors in OOS phenomenon.