Revisiting
Educational Practices: What a Shame…….??? I am Bored
Student, KU, School of Education
Education
is the backbone and milestone for all round development of any society. It is a
well-accepted assumption of defining education. In the context of Nepal,
education system is like metaphor of beautiful garden for corruption and
politics. In this regard, how can we get
quality education?
In
Nepal, quality education has been limited only in plans and policies but not in
reality. We are greatly victimized due to the political deadlock and
self-centered ethos of leaders. The
tendency of padlocking education institutions by various political parties and
trade unions, even students’ unions became well established culture of
fulfilling demands. Here, teachers are
protesting to their permanency in job without any competition, professors are
padlocking varsities for their demands, students are protesting against
university for getting poor marks. When we see that education in Nepal is going
round in a vicious circle. Does it mean by quality education?
Teachers
are the agent of social change. In Nepalese scenario, while recruiting
teachers, particularly, in government schools, there is politics from Ministry
of Education (MoE) to School Management Committee (SMC). It has been becoming
culture of appointing a teacher who is a close relative of School Management
Committee’s chairperson and head teacher.
In this way, quality education has been questioned due to these immoral
and sinful activities. Most significantly, the tendency of sending children to
boarding school has been increasing day by day. Parents are compelled to pay
high amount of fees in terms of different titles in the name of quality
education. Owners of private school never follow the code of conduct as
directed by Education Act and Education Regulation so far. They, of course,
hesitate to pay education tax to government and most of them are established
without any registration. Rather, they are interested in increasing school fee
by appointing teacher in very low salary. What a shame! At the same time, so called NGOs and INGOs
are busy in farming dollar in the name of community development through
education, advocacy and so on. The future of education system is going round in
sadistic circle of ocean. I think it is
really difficult to overcome from this problem. Why the government is not eager
to form mechanism to eradicate these problems and burning issues of teachers,
students and unemployment, etc?
Many
so called educationists were participated in different national and
international conference with the agenda of quality, access and management in
education, stating slogans “Education for All”, “Inclusive Education” etc. Now, educationists are becoming businessmen
by opening college of their own for their personal growth. In this way, it is
very difficult for us to compete with global status of development due to our
ineffective management and planning system from central to local levels. What is
the role of teacher service commission? Its work is only limited to distribute
teaching license. It has become popular institution for license industry. When
teachers are appointed by School Management Committee, what’s the role and
rationale of establishing Teacher Service Commission?
It’s
an immediate need to all the concerned authorities, stakeholders and line
agencies to maintain the quality in education by translating new vision and
mission into the reality. The increasing tendency is wasting time and money in
irrelevant plans should be minimized at all. It’s our need to create conducive
environment of learning. Everything is
possible if we perform task honestly through collaborative way. A voice has
power when it is echoed by thousands. Amendment of Education Act 1972,
recruitment of vacant teacher through healthy competition, making proper
mechanism for minimizing gap between private and public education institutions
etc. should be addressed very soon. Then, it will be easier to implement the
plans and policies as directed in School Sector Reform Plan (SSRP). Ultimately,
there is no doubt that conducive learning environment is possible for ensuring
quality in education.
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