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KATHMANDU, Jan 25: The Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) is in a process to de-recognise nearly two dozens of educational institutions under its affiliation for not complying with the HSEB norms, an HSEB official said Friday.
“The Board has decided to de-recognise them after they were found violating the basic norms,” Koshal Raj Regmi, Vice President of HSEB, told The Kathmandu Post.
The HSEB is going to take the tough measures as these institutions, despite acquiring affiliation from HSEB two years ago, have failed to run the higher secondary education citing various reasons.
In the list of the de-recognition, according to HSEB sources, are four higher secondary schools in eastern region, one in Baitadi district and 16 in the capital. The HSEB has issued a written notification to each of these schools seeking valid reasons for non-compliance by the second week of February (by the end of Nepali month of Magh).
However, some schools in the capital have already responded to the Board , providing various reasons including security reason, lack of adequate students to run the programme, unavailability of teachers and dismal physical infrastructure.
A source at the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) said the Board has complete authority over granting affiliations to the schools as well as dissolving them. “But the Board is supposed to grant affiliations after the institutions fulfil the minimum pre-requisites,” said Baikuntha Das Shrestha, an official at the Ministry.
Shrestha further said that the Ministry has given complete jurisdiction to the Board to take any sort of action against the schools that failed to abide by the regulations.
“If they fail to provide valid reasons, we will initiate action against them,” said DB Khadka, Deputy Director of HSEB. “So long as they garner profits they run and once the profit is at stake, they close.”
Khadka also said the Board now is planning to make sterner procedures for receiving affiliation to start higher secondary schools. In the recent years, such schools have widely mushroomed, basically in the major cities of the country.
It is estimated that there are 775 higher secondary schools across the country under HSEB and Tribhuvan University affiliation.