In a bid to improve the education at government schools, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City is preparing to train more than 2,000 teachers.

Officials hope the skill training for teachers will help improve the quality of education, the learning outcome in government schools and make students there more competent.

“Over 2,000 teachers serving in government schools in the metropolis are getting teaching-learning training from Sunday,” said Shailendra Jha, a member of the City Planning Commission. “A four-day training will be imparted by professors and experts from the Kathmandu University at 55 centres.”

The metropolis has already imparted such training to 39 teachers of government schools hiring experts at the Kathmandu University. Of them, 34 teachers, who scored good marks, were accredited on Friday. The metropolis will finance those accredited teachers to study master degrees at Kathmandu University.

“Improving the capacity of teachers serving at government schools in the metropolis is among the programmes the metropolis has taken to improve the quality of education,” said Jha. “We have also invested in infrastructure development of schools and digital learning.”

The City office had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kathmandu University for capacity building of teachers, carrying out a study on the effectiveness of teaching and child psychology, among others. For that, the metropolis will provide over 28 million to the Kathmandu University.

Officials said they plan to promote creative learning, make students up to date with the latest developments in technological sectors.

The City office has already started book-free Fridays, in which people’s representatives from many local governments have shown interest. Under the programme, students from grades 9 to 12 were taught optional short-term courses on topics including agriculture and urban farming, cosmetology, carpentry and wood-carving, culinary arts, fashion design and clothing, electrical wiring, disaster preparedness, mobile and electronics repair, plumbing, stitching and sculpture.

The metropolis has also implemented an integrated curriculum in grades 1 to 3, under which the knowledge of interlinked subject matters are provided. Officials said that they are also implementing extracurricular activities—music, poem recitation, essay writing, growing plants and garbage disposal, among other skills, to students of grades 4 to 8, which help in both mental and physical growth.

Officials said that the trained teachers will also be deployed to other local federal units on vacation if they show interest in the new measures taken by Kathmandu metropolis.