Kathmandu, Apr.1: Minister of State for Local Development Suresh Malla has said that since education is an important aspect of human life and development, it should be made accessible to all.
Minister of State Malla was speaking at a reception cum felicitation programme organised in his honour by the Gitamata Secondary School, Swoyambhu here recently.
On the occasion, he urged those in the education sector of the country should give serious attention to rectify the weaknesses in the present education system.
He said the present education system was clearly producing two different sets of citizens–the privileged class who get their education in expensive boarding schools and the underprivileged who study in public schools.
Minister of State Malla, who is also the chairman of the school management committee, said that the present education system was such that it was only producing graduates with certificates to join the ever growing unemployment market.
He pointed out the need for reform in the present education system and stressed vocational education.
At the programme presided over by school principal Bidya Devi Maharjan, various persons expressed their views on educational development. The school has 3,000 students.
Meanwhile, the four factions of the All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU) organised an interaction programme here on the problems caused by privatization in the higher education and the ways to resolve them.
On the occasion, educationists Prakash Shrestha and Ramesh Sharma presented working papers while Dr. Om Gurung, Padam Khadka and Biswonath Pathak commented on the working papers.
The programme was presided over by president of the ANNFSU-2022 Prakash Pokherel.
The working papers state that as education has become expensive due to the policies of handing over education to the capitalists through privatisation, it is not proper to privatise the higher education.
The working papers have also expressed concern over the decreasing standard of education in the public campuses.