Children love Learning! 2017 has been about settling in some new teachers and taking stock of what is needed to move the school forward. We have made some exciting decisions: the school will now divide into a nursery (4-6) and a main school (7-16) and we will be building a new nursery, playground and toilets on a nearby site to [...]

https://youtu.be/ym9ljPGKug4 In an exciting new charitable initiative, Aptitude Software (which delivers groundbreaking technologies to Chief Financial Officers) will send two employees to represent them by delivering life-changing technology to 175 children at the Q. Learning school in Nepal. As part of 'Operation Kanchenjunga', Aptitude Software will thereby change both the education and life chances of children in the remote Nepalese [...]

If you were designing education in a remote part of the Himalayas, what would you include? Yes, we would really like to know! In Hangdewa, on the silent slopes of Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world, sitting on the borders of China, India and Nepal, the world can have the widest possible views and yet be a small [...]

Promise on New School Delivered And there it was, the Q. Learning School in Hangdewa, NE Nepal, resplendent in all its yellowness and nestled in its own playground. 10 rooms, 150 children (4-14), 10 teachers, and lessons in English equivalent to the Oxford and Cambridge syllabus. Q. Learning had delivered on a promise made 7 years before to build a school in one of [...]

I arrived in the village at 5 o’clock on the Sunday night after a 45 minute plane journey, 8.5 hours in a rickety bus that drove on a windy and bumpy road (after that I felt a bit sick) and a 1.5 hour walk. But finally we arrived at the school. We were all in good condition (well almost). My [...]