Education " Just Been a Blunt Tool To Beg Food "

“Education is a process of getting university degree for earning bucket of money”. There is an old Nepalese saying “Biddya bhaneko magi khane bhado ho” i.e education is a tool to beg food. This thinking has deeply rooted in whole Nepalese society. From before 500 years ago brahmans used to learn Sanskrit language to become priest so that the followers would give them food and money after performing some sacred rituals .They used to go to ashram (School in old time) where they learn language and remember every lines of religious book mostly without knowing the actual meaning in it. And at present day too, education has more or less taken the same shape.

Lots of private educational institutions have been established in most of towns and cities which are always focused on getting marks in examination rather then any practical knowledge. In the other hand government too is busy in producing  ( like in factories) literate people so that the literacy rate of the country would increase which helps to gain support in donor agencies as rise in the literacy rate seems a positive change from surface outlook.

As I mentioned above the education system in Nepal is focused in theory only and students generally face problems to meet the demand of the market. The education has never been practical oriented .Except in some courses eg MBBS,BBA most of other courses there is no compulsion of internship. Doing a intern is a new culture in Nepal. Even the technical course like engineering has been flooded with theoretical class but practical and laboratory class are few. As a result even the unemployment rate of technical graduates is high.

Especially the government lacks in planning for the future manpower required for the country as a result some field has extremely high no of graduate holders where as some field has no expertise and such manpower is needed to be imported from foreign country. Also the governmental colleges are centered in cities and technical college in main cities only so rural people has less excess to technical education. Lack of required number of teachers in the school are the main problems in the governmental school. Many school in villages don’t even have school building and the students are taught in open field.

Increasing the share of total annual budget in education, changing the educational curriculum to meet the demand of the present market, bringing the foreign experts for helping in designing syllabus, proper planning and estimation of future need and launching awareness programme about proper education system can be the viable ways for enhancing the educational status of the country rather then just increasing no of literate people.