Growing the IB in Nepal with Maksud Alam

About this episode

Maksud Alam discusses the challenges and rewards of building the IB program at Swostishree Gurukul IB World School in Nepal.

Send us Fan Mail Maksud Alam is a dynamic young IB leader working at Swostishree Gurukul IB World School in Kathmandu, Nepal. His school is only the second in Nepal to offer the MYP and one of 7 schools in Nepal to offer the IB, so far. There are several others in the candidate phase right now. We talked about the challenges and the rewards when building a programme from the ground floor in a new school, and in an area without many potential collaborators nearby. Maksud came to his IB coordin...

People in this episode

Guest: Maksud Alam

Topics covered

• IB education
• MYP
• Nepal
• school development

Keywords

• IB World School
• education challenges
• program development

Mentioned in this episode

Products: IB program, MYP

Places: Nepal, Kathmandu

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