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| the real ashu |
Posted
on 24-Jul-01 06:27 AM
There are MORE SLC flunk-outs in and out of Nepal than
there are those who have passed the exams. Ours is a nation
full of SLC-failures, compatriots who are unfit even to work
as postal workers. (You have to be "an SLC pass" even to be
a hulaki in Nepal!).
The SLC results were published last week, and the pass rate
this year was just over 30 per cent. A pathetic show,
altogether. And if you add up the numbers of failures
from, say, 1990, the total can shock you.
Is there a way of this annual SLC mess?
oohi
ashu
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| Atap |
Posted
on 24-Jul-01 09:06 AM
Yes, there is a solution, but the higher ups don't want to hear it. The SLC commission has become too powerful and needs to be dismantled. The exam is actually a reflection on the quality of teaching. Instead, each teacher should give a final exam in his or her subject. A teacher who has too many failures should be discharged. Put some of those SLC pass students up front to teach. Reward not humiliation should be the norm.
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| Sunakhari |
Posted
on 24-Jul-01 09:11 AM
Is it the quality of the teachers or the education system itself. We used to hear various rumours about how a person would evaluate an examination paper.
The idea of having these teachers tested before they actually teach the subject is not a bad idea at all although flaky.
A good education system has yet to be established in Nepal.
Now, shouldn't Deuba put this on top of his priority list?
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| RRR |
Posted
on 24-Jul-01 10:37 AM
I think the worst thing nepali's tend to do is critcize what people do for a living. Nepali's have it in their head that if your not a doctor or Rich Businessman you are a failure.
I think it is wrong to look down on any profession, if you did not have mail carriers how would you get the mail.
Education is not something you gain from a peice of paper it is the accumulation of knowledge a person has had through study, experience and situations....
Work is work...whether your a pilot, doctor, farmer...everyone deserves respect...not everyone has the same oppurtuinties nor does everyone want the same thing in life...
So what so wrong to be a mail carrier....if the person is happy, can support himself...
Everyone has different talents...not everyone is meant to be a doctor or scientist ...Nepalis should encourage people to diversify the education and knowledge..remember Darwin's theory of Natural Seclection...usually the creatures with the genes to surive variable climates, situaitions surive...
I think respecting everyone role in society is something that we all need to learn to do
School systems in Nepal need to teach diveristy, so that it can nurture the interst and talents of all types of students....
Not eliminate people who may not be book smart......and create a feeling failure ....in these peoples minds......
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| Sherap |
Posted
on 24-Jul-01 11:25 AM
Aashu,
I guess you've brought up a good issue. When I just read about it my thoughts were alarmed. I do see the need for a better education system. As priority goes, the first thing Nepal has been facing is the lack of good educational background. The system we Nepalese adopt doesn't seem to work well. There's now, come a need to bring in a new trend in the educational system of Nepal. The other thing about failing SLC here is that a student carries his education well under a teacher's teaching and he learns to respond the way he has been taught.But during SLC when the papers of that student goes in to some other examiner's hand there's a difference. The examiner might not like the way the student has written. So this brings in a conflict about failing SLC. I doubt these many students wouldn't be failing after all they have smoothly been up there going through 10-12 years of hard work. This really has to be thought about. These are just my opinions.
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| Mahesh |
Posted
on 24-Jul-01 12:11 PM
Naya sikcha is the root of all these problems. Before that we were doing fine. Those morons wanted to change all courses from English to NEpali not knowing if that was going to work or not. Since the mid 70's the quality of education has been going downhill.
Yes we need to do this and that, but where are you going to get the money ???? If you read an any book there are so many mistakes in there..... its shamefull that we are teaching this to kids.
SLC itself is not all that anyways. Half the people that pass the test cheat anyways. We need a test system like SAT's. or even o LEVEL like the old days. I say screw the Nepali system. It has not worked. 25 yrs and continueing to go downhill.
The way teachers are treated in Nepal I don't blame them for negleting their students(low pay along with harrasment from students.)
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 24-Jul-01 03:51 PM
This is a good topic to discuss. 67 percent failure rate is too
high to ignore.As Ashu said,we have been a nation of SLC fails.
My own highschool in Chitwan used to have 33% pass rate. Usually,
200 students used to take the SLC test, and only 4 or 5 students
used to pass in the first division. Reflecting somewhat the
national average of those time.
Then, when our headmaster was changed,the new one single-handedly
transformed the result of the school in the first year: 26 first
division, and 60% pass: a good result for a public school in
Chitwan.
When I analysed results, what shocked me was the finding that
most of the fails were either girls, or from Tharus and the so
called 'low caste'. It was a disturbing trend.
Our highschool (Sri Nepal Ma Vi) still has the same headmaster.
He managed to collect funds for school by building houses in the
barren and idle lands near Sauraha chouk(Bordering Tandi Bazaar)
where the so called 'sukumbasis' used to live before. Communists
leaders had vested interested in those sukumbasis, so the school
was forced to placate the opposers by accomodating them also, but
somehow, the school managed to have an additional (approx) 50,000
rupees per month (data of 3 years ago ).
I don't exactly know what they are doing with that money, but it
is likely that they are using that for providing coaching classes
or students. Such classes are usually cramming courses, but has
been proven effective for students.
The SLC fail students have less chance to pass in their next
attempt.It is evident by lower percentage of result of those
groups. No wonder those people are cause of social unrest and
they are also the group of people who often marry soon, and who
also follow the political leaders in their 'instability' campaign.
I think it is time such 'case studies' of public schools is
analyzed and applied to other public schools. Otherwise, not only
the nation will have more SLC fails, but also , as a communist
student leader from Maoist student wing said, "the nation will
be producing two kind of students".
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| Care |
Posted
on 24-Jul-01 11:52 PM
1. What about the failure rates last year and a year before that? And over the 10 years, 20 years and 30 years? Does anyone have the figures, or just the trend? Maybe, the SLC results have always been dismal. Not that it would be any less excusable because of that but that would at least put the whole thing in a proper perspective.
2. What the SLC results glaringly mask is the gulf between private schools, especially in the Valley and urban centers, and govt schools. While some private schools would call anything less than a hundred percent SLC success a failure, many govt. schools in remote areas would be more than happy to get their students in the "pass" list at all.
We are here talking about two Nepals, dangerously running away from each other. Do they even understand each other?
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 25-Jul-01 12:20 AM
careji:
As long as I remember (sorry,I couldn't search the fact), the
result was dismall before until even 2051, but it has been
consistently improved lately. Around 50% passed last year.
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| concerned |
Posted
on 26-Jul-01 12:01 AM
The high SLC pass rate is a conspiracy to ensure a steady supply of young cadres to the Maoists and other communist parties!!!
No, seriously, what else is there to do for people who spent 10 years studying instead of learning skills with their hands (including farming), and then can't even get a postal job!
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