Yadav Prasad Bhattarai

Nonprofit; 501-1000 employees; Education Management industry

May 2009 – July 2011 (2 years 3 months)

Worldwide Nepalese Students' Organsation-Nepal (WNSO Nepal) is a non political, non-profit making, volunteer based student organization that constitutes the Nepalese Students all over the world. WNSO-Nepal was established with the ultimate objective of helping students achieve their full potential in the easiest way possible with the regional slogan 'Quality Education is Fundamental Right to Every Citizen'. Better considering the students and youth as a future of the nation, WNSO is coming at front line carrying a mission to lead students for quality education and to enroll them into social transformation and nation building.

-Responsible for Planning and Implementing the annual Programs, Projects and Events of the organization.

Web: http://wnso.org.np/

Nonprofit; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry

February 2011 – February 2011 (1 month)

I was invited by The International Student festival in Trondheim (ISFiT 2011) and the ISFiT foundation to participate in ISFiT 2011. The festival took place in Trondheim, Norway, from 11 February to 20 February 2011.The Theme of the festival in 2011 was “Globalize This: Health”. I participated in Education Workshop.

ISFiT is the world’s largest thematic student festival, and ISFiT 2011 gathered 517 students from 104 countries. ISFiT is a meeting place for discussion, dialogue and debates. It is an arena where ideas are born, attitudes are changed and networks are established. The festival is held in Trondheim, Norway, every second year.

ISFiT highlighted the theme Global Health in various ways; through workshops, cultural events and plenary sessions. Among the speakers at ISFiT 2011 were Dr Aaron Bernstein, Sima Samar, Dr Hans Rosling, Sir Micheal Marmot and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Norway.

Web:http://isfit.org

May 2010 – May 2010 (1 month)

This idea of Student Solidarity Summit was initiated by education activists in Germany and Spain and was being supported by the “Landesausschuss der Studentinnen und Studenten (LASS) der Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) Hessen”, the student wing of the education union of the federal state of Hesse [Germany].During the summit students, teachers and education activists got together from around the world to analyse public education systems, network and attempt to create a basis for future co-ordinations. The summit focused especially on the increasing privatisation of public education and the protests against this development. The Student Solidarity Summit (S3) took place at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt/M [Kleiststraße 5], Germany, from May 22nd to 24th 2010.

Web: http://s3ffm.wordpress.com/
Web: http://www.educationcongress.eu/

Nonprofit; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry

October 2009 – October 2009 (1 month)

The Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED) in cooperation with American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) gathered student leaders in Budapest, Hungary on October 9th-15th, 2009 for the Global Student Forum on Engineering Education to discuss this year’s conference theme “Ensuring Equitable and Diverse Global Representation with Engineering Education”. I represented Nepalese Engineering community in the Global Student Forum on Engineering Education (GSF) not only as a participant but as a conference chair (Chair in Finance). I had been an integral part in the organisation of the Global Student Forum on Engineering Education 2009. The Global Student Forum program focuses on developing thinking from a global perspective and providing a local applicability to student's ideas. Students share ideas and discuss the skills and competencies of a modern successful engineer and how to implement such current practices into curriculum in order to improve engineering education. Students participate in a series of workshops, discussions, presentations and creation of action plans that enable them to become a factor of change in the development of engineering education curriculum.

-As the finance chair of this forum, I provided tremendous fiscal guidance. I over saw all financial considerations for the forum, including but not limited to; managing budgets, making payments, developing sponsorship package and procedures and pursuing and locating sponsorship, an event with approximately $30,000 budget.

Web: http://worldspeed.org/

Nonprofit; 501-1000 employees; Education Management industry

August 2007 – May 2009 (1 year 10 months)

Worldwide Nepalese Students' Organisation - Nepal (WNSO) is the non-profit network of Nepalese students and professionals worldwide working for the development of Nepal and Nepalese through various programs linking the issues of education with sustainability. It was established by a group of pioneering Nepalese students whose primary objective was the provision of accurate and comprehensive information for those eager to study abroad. The idea for WNSO stemmed from the recognition of major problem facing prospective overseas students from Nepal. Today, WNSO has emerged as an extensive umbrella network for students across the world irrespective of their beliefs, religion, sex or ethnic origin. WNSO does not have any affiliation with corporate, political or Government organization.

Web: http://chautari.org/

Nonprofit; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry

October 2008 – October 2008 (1 month)

Global Student Forum on Engineering Education (GSFEE) was presented by The Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED), in conjunction with the University of Cape Town and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).This gathering of enthusiastic students leaders from around the globe focused on intense discussion of pressing issues , formation of action plans for post-conference follow-up and participation in prominent international meeting attended by leaders in industry, academia and Government.

GSFEE and GCEE was an opportunity for me to raise the issue of engineering education from my locality for open discussion to a global audience. And through my participation I got a concrete understanding of pressing issues and prevailing problems of engineering sector. Also , I took the opportunity to get to know each other, share something about me, my county and my ideas about the topic, and took benefit from the great diversity and richness of people, cultures and background represented in the event. This way, I not only came back home with a smile on my face but also I felt like I added something valuable and long lasting to somebody else's experience. The 3rd Global Student Forum on engineering education took place at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, from Oct 17 to 25, 2008.

Web: http://worldspeed.org