As Nepal Open University (NOU) approaches its tenth anniversary, it is time both to celebrate our gains in our mission of enhancing access to and quality of higher education in Nepal and to reflect on how we could have done better. The success we achieved was the result of hard work of the University family and the active engagement of our students, collaborators and stakeholders. At this juncture, our challenge is to build on the past successes, capitalize on new opportunities, and to ensure that the University is able to fulfill educational needs of our people in the country and amongst the Nepali diaspora.
We realize that from the baby steps and initial successes, we have a far longer way to go. This is about fully harnessing the University’s potential in nurturing our learners for realizing their dreams at individual and organizational levels. In this respect, we remain focused not only on enhancing knowledge, skills and competencies amongst our learners, but also inspiring and motivating them lead with ethics, integrity and love and respect for humanity and nature. I believe that these competencies and dispositions are essential for Nepal’s transformation toward prosperity and social justice.
Achieving these high goals requires not just hard work, but good ways of doing the work. I will be looking forward to facilitate and support active engagement from our University team of teaching and non-teaching staff, our students, government agencies, as well as partners and collaborators  in strengthening and consolidating the University capacity to deliver our mandate better. We will have to be able to properly understand changing needs of society, government and businesses. Our learners should be able to navigate and properly understand changing socio-economic and technological contexts, labor market requirements and behave with a civic consciousness as good and patriotic citizens. To make this happen, we will have to deploy competent human resource capacity, technical infrastructure, quality assurance system, student support, and frameworks and tools for responsiveness and accountability.
I urge our University team, students, alumni, and stakeholders to engage with us in this effort on shared learning, creative problem solving and ultimately enable the University deliver better. 
 
Hari P. Dhungana, PhD
Associate Professor and Registrar