Seventeen plus two colleges found violating admission norms and using prohibited means for advertisements have replied to the Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) that they would follow the Board´s directives.

Monitoring the Valley-based higher secondary schools and plus two colleges on June 25, the HSEB had sought clarifications from 29 institutions for violating the Board´s directive against using hoarding boards to attract students.

The college authorities have said that they would pull down the hoarding boards and also archive the answer sheets of the entrance exams as per the initial direction of the Board, said Suprabhat Bhandari, chairman of the Guardians´ Association of Nepal.

The reputed colleges such as Adarsha Kanya Higher Secondary School, Barsha College, NASA, Texas, British Gorkha, LRI and Khumaltar-based Himalayan White House International College were among those who had been asked by HSEB to furnish a written clarification over their practice of using hoarding boards and entrance examination fees.

A meeting of 13-member monitoring committee on Monday decided that the schools and colleges that have expressed commitment to open admissions for 15 days would be given a last chance to do so.

The board had issued a notice directing the institutions to open admission for two weeks following the widespread criticism of the irregularities in enrolling students within a week. Similarly, the students who arrive here from districts get less opportunity to read at desired colleges due to short time for entrance preparation, added Bhandari.

Likewise, the committee would recommend an action against the rest 12 colleges that have so far not responded to HSEB´s instructions, added Bhandari.
A week ago, HSEB had called five schools to check their admission process, asking the principles of St. Mary´s, Jawalakhel, St. Xavier´s Schools, SOS school, Sanothimi, and Budhanilkantha School to fill a questionnaire about the admission process at their schools.

The principals had replied to seven questions regarding their admission process, capacity of their schools, admission deadline, and entrance results.
As the Board issued a code of conduct to regulate the plus two colleges, it had earlier directed private institutions to archive the entrance answer sheets for six months.

The HSEB Joint Secretary Narayan Koirala said that the office will study whether the colleges admitted students who paid additional fees or the ones who genuinely passed the tests.

source: republica,1 July 2013