1. The National Education Policy (NEP) 2009 (the "Policy") comes in a series of education policies dating back to the very inception of the country in 1947. The review process for the National ducation Policy 1998-2010 was initiated in 2005 and the first document, the White Paper was finalised in March 2007. The White Paper became the basis for development of the Policy ocument. The lag in finalisation of the draft owes to lot of factors including the process of onsultations adopted as well as significant political changes in the country.

2. Two main reasons prompted the Ministry of Education (MoE) to launch the review in 2005 well before the time horizon of the existing policy framework (1998 - 2010)1 had approached. Firstly, the policy framework has not served as a satisfactory guide, as the policies pursued under hatframework had not produced the desired educational results. Performance of the education ector has been deficient in several key aspects, most notably in access rates, and in quality and quity of educational opportunities.

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