Pramod Bhatta, PhD, is an assistant professor of sociology at Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Prior to this, he was a senior researcher of education at Martin Chautari, a not-for-profit research and policy institute in Kathmandu. He has conducted research and evaluations on different aspects of Nepal's education reforms since the 1990s, and published extensively on education issues in Nepal. He is deeply interested in the functioning of public institutions (especially education) from the perspectives of policy and politics, governance, and privatization.