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Kathmandu Monday January 28, 2002 Magh 15, 2058.
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Thriving tuition centres due
to poor govt institutes
By Seema A Adhikari
KATHMANDU, Jan 27: With the quality of education
imparted in schools and colleges leaving much to be desired, students are flocking to the
mushrooming private coaching centres that are waiting to cash in on plight of the hapless
students.
Robin Bhandari, 21, a student at Ratna Rajya
Laxmi Campus spends hours in a coaching institute as only means to prepare for his
forth-coming University exams rather than in his college. "A tuition is a must for a
student to secure good marks," Bhandari says.
Bhandari, a second year student of journalism,
joined Student Education Academy – a tuition centre – recently to pull through
his examination and to excel in his academics. "Campus politics is the main cause
behind the classes being disturbed in the government campuses," he further said.
He is one of the several students who have been
attending both the tuition centre and the college.
Bijaya Gurung, a student at Law Campus, also
goes for the tuition classes at one of the coaching centres. "Since our teachers are
not regular in the college we are compelled to go for tuition," he says.
More than 400 tuition centres have come up in
the capital in the recent years but many are still to be registered to the Company
Registrar Office.
Though most of these centres have hardly any
breathing space with small and congested rooms, students still tend to go for them. In a
single lane at Bagbazar and Putalisadak, hundreds of these institutes offer classes on
computer, Information Technology, mathematics, TOFEL and IELTS for the students.
The government officials admit that the
state-run campuses are not providing quality education to the students. "There should
be regular class in education institutions to stop the growing tuition culture. The
tuition centre should set up minimum criteria for the tuition center if the civil society
feels it necessary to check them," says Yuba Raj Pandey, Spokesperson at the Ministry
of Sports and Education.
Pandey also says that the government should at
least try to give quality education to the students in the colleges to improve the poor
education system in Nepal. "It should also check out if the education centers are
open for good intention," Pandey adds.
Experts too have the same opinion. Tirtha
Khaniya, renowned academic, says that the education system of Nepal has failed to deliver
quality education. "The students are compelled to take up the coaching classes due to
irregular classes and closure of the colleges on various occasions," he further says.
"Many of the tuition centers are run by
those teachers who have their role in setting up of the examination questions
papers."
He said in those centers the teachers make the
students "drill" with the question papers than teaching them. "That
actually works for the examination because there is the highest possibility that the
questions they deal in the centers are the ones that they have to face in the examination
hall," he added.
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