"Nepalese Schools Have Become A Big Business!" | Ajay Ghimire | Chairman, Ace School | EP 184

Welcome to the Doers Podcast, where we bring you inspiring conversations with individuals making a significant impact in their respective fields.

This episode features the founder of Ace School, Ajay Ghimire. Ajay is also a founding member of ACE Group, including Ace Apartments, Ace Finance, previously VIBOR Bank, and others. In this episode, Ajay and Anup dive deep into his journey in the entrepreneurial world and his current steps toward impacting Nepalese education.

Ajay Ghimire talks about Vibor Bank's failure, the Nepalese people's focus on useless degrees, the failure of the Nepalese Education System, Approaches to parenting, and changing schooling in Nepal. Do not miss
out on this eye-opening dissection of Nepalese Teaching.


Host: Anup Ghimire
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Guest: Ajay Ghimire
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Timestamps
00:00 Highlights
02:32 Introducing Ajay Ghimire to the Audience
03:51 Looking Back At Ajay Ghimire’s Life Journey: Maths and More
07:00 Banking Career at NABIL
11:00 Fulbright Scholarship at MIT
15:25 Coming Back to Nepal and NABIL
17:25 ACE Group: Ace Apartments and Real Estate
20:00 Man Ahead of Time? “Don’t go against the regulators!”
22:10 Political Dreams in a Political World
27:40 Rosebud School and VIBOR Bank
36:00 Impacting Children’s Education with ACE
39:00 Doing his part to change the world
40:40 Problems in Nepalese Education System: Producing Quality Teachers
42:39 AI in education
45:30 Thinking Classrooms, Apprehensive Parents
50:00 You can’t be very radical in your approach to education
52:05 Curriculum of Nepal and Examination-Centric Teaching
54:15 Not finding a match between applicable market skills and education in Nepal
58:35 Education is a way for the state to stop people from anti-social activities
1:00:00 Failures of Higher Education in Nepal
1:04:45 Education to Blame for Brain-drain?
1:06:55 Entitlement among Students and Parents
1:08:00 Importance of Parenting and Schools
1:09:19 Balancing Profit and Impact for Schools
1:11:00 Wrong Approaches to Parenting
1:13:32 What keeps Ajay Ghimire Motivated?
1:17:05 What next for Ajay Ghimire
1:19:45 What is Entrepreneurship?
1:22:00 What would Ajay not do if he could go back?
1:23:25 Privilege or Luck?
1:26:00 Reaching Out To Ajay Ghimire
1:28:55 What is Success?
1:31:20 The Need For These Conversations to Reach Out
1:33:25 Making ACE a Model School
1:35:30 Being Grateful to Teachers
1:37:12 Message to the audience
1:37:40 Outro