Syndicate in education
The Himalayan Times
10 May 2018
Syndicate in education
There is no argument about the
parents’ immense desires to give their children best education keeping in view
of the ever growing challenging environment for their future no matter how
exorbitant the fee is. Since, the quality of education in the public schools
still questionable in-spite of government and donor organisations spending
billions of rupees every year for the last several years, parents prefer to
send their children to the private schools for acquiring better education
in-spite of exorbitant fees. The governments in the past had completely failed
to improve the teaching learning environment in public schools owing to either their
short sightedness or heavy politicisation.
It is known facts that every year
in the past, students unions affiliated to different political parties raised
their voices and even staged protests against the monopoly of private schools.
They even signed several deals with the government every year agreeing to
monitor and scale down the excessive fees charged by the private schools.
However, none of the agreements was fully implemented. Parents are forced to
pay enormous fees charged under different headings in the name of quality
education.
A few days ago, the government,
PABSON and the student unions signed a six-point deal for lowering down school
and other fees. However, it was surprising to read another news report that
another seven student unions were against the agreement citing that they were
not consulted while signing the deal “Student unions announce education strike”
(THT, May 8, Page 2) Parents seem to be confused. Time has come for the
government to settle this burning issue soon.
Rai
Biren Bangdel
Mharajgunj
