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Growing Charm
Most of the students want to join Plus 2 colleges attracted by their quality and management
By SAHISHNU POUDYAL
Every morning, one can see young students clad in various types of uniform walking briskly through the streets and chatting with their friends. These are the new age students of higher secondary colleges, which have become ubiquitous.
From main streets to every nook and corner, the higher secondary colleges or Plus 2 colleges as they popularly known, have mushroomed everywhere. And each one of these colleges seem to be filled by aspiring young students.
After passing out the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examinations, youngsters now wish to join the Plus 2 colleges. Gone are the days when they flocked to government colleges to study the Intermediate level or Proficiency Certificate Level. Everyone now is attracted towards the modern and quality education offered by these private colleges.
“I have joined VS Niketan College for higher education,” said Archana Thapa, a SLC passed student. Like Archana, maximum number of students want to join Plus 2 colleges after their SLC. Very few of them want to join government college, which are notorious for bad quality, lack of learning environment and so on.
When asked why she didn’t join government college, Thapa said, “I think not only me but all those who can afford want to join Plus 2. Nobody wants to go to government college because they have low education quality, improper management system, low result output, and irregularity in examination.”
There are hundreds of students like Thapa who have decided to abandon the government colleges and flock towards the Plus 2. After the government decided to gradually phase out Proficiency Certificate Level from the government colleges, the growth of higher secondary schools have been phenomenal.
According to the data provided by Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) in 2060 there were 74,000 students who had joined in Class 11 (higher secondary schools); in 2061 the number of students increased up to 112,100. Likewise, in 2062 the number of students reached 106,000. This record shows that the craze of 10+2 schools is increasing day by day. As a result, the students are showing indifference towards government colleges.
This attraction of Plus Two colleges has affected the charm of government colleges. “Yes the increasing number of students in +2 colleges has affected the government college. They lack students day by day. There are many drawbacks of the government colleges such as the absence of environment for any interaction between teachers and students, low result percentage, packed class rooms, no concentration in class rooms, political influence etc which ensures that students do not want to join government colleges,” said Niraj Poudyal, Faculty Member at Patan Multiple Campus in Lalitpur.
However, Sunil Kumar Poudyal, the Campus Chief of Ratna Rajya Campus said, “The number of students who want to be admitted in our campus has not decreased. However, we have to stop admissions to wait for the results of the exempted students. There are about 600 admission sheets given to our campus, out of them 400 sheets have already been filled and the rest are being saved for the exempted students.”
Whatever the teachers may say, the data of HSEB proves that the number of students in +2 colleges are rapidly increasing, which also means that the students of government colleges are decreasing. In a short span of its establishment, the higher secondary colleges run by the private sector has succeeded to overcome the weaknesses witnessed in government colleges. The HSEB has been giving authority to private operators to run Plus 2 colleges since 1991.
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