Thursday, July 22, 2010

Flood of plus two

This is the time for the festival of plus two for which business minded people had eagerly been waiting for. This year, this festival has arrived with various types of claims of their own so as to try to make a difference in the crowd from others in the name of so-called quality education. Almost all of them sing to the same tune that they provide 'quality' education with various extra activities for what they are fleecing a good sum from the innocent parents. English names sound better to the Nepalese ears, so there are hundreds of plus twos in Kathmandu only after English names which help a lot in influencing the parents to take out money from back pockets or safe deposits.
Hundreds of so called reputed plus twos of the valley alone produce lakhs of successful students from their institutions but the important question to ask is that, are they all getting good employment in the number of lakhs every year? Or they are simply producing the 'skilled' man-power to export in foreign countries for any cheap jobs to do?
Another thing to take care is that are the parents getting their investment back from their children's satisfactory jobs?
Sending the children in the most frequently advertised plus twos for the sake of guardians' own dignity and pride has become a fashion. Everybody knows that hollow promises and advertisement on glossy papers have not anything to do with quality education. School-owners always use attractive words like 'international' or 'academy' to their school names instead of 'higher secondary school' so that they can easily fool the parents. They are also found using wrong data, names and photos of students without any hesitation because they better know that none is going to check them. They use even 'scholarship' word with advertisement point of views and the fact is that students do not get anything in its name even though there is provision of scholarship from Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) of Nepal.
They simply advertise in the nook and corner of Nepal for the students with distinction so that the students easily pass the exams on their own without any difficulty. If they are really devoted to quality education with all the infrastructures they have, they should prove their worth by taking the admission of the students with second and third division as well. Talent cannot be bought in the most expensive plus twos. None should forget that all the plus twos of Nepal teach in accordance with the same curriculum developed by the HSEB so the students as well as the guardians should not run after mere the advertisements but after the labour, discipline, quality and management of the higher secondary schools in a true sense.

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