Education Minister Dina Nath Sharma today said that teachers needed to be responsible and accountable to improve the quality of education in community schools.

Speaking at an interaction organised by District Education Office Kathmandu today Minister Sharma accused community school teachers of not paying attention to the teaching and learning process as a result of which the results of community schools were deteriorating day by day.

He said, “The teachers are more attentive towards their personal work even in schools and want to go home early rather than give time to children and their learning.”

He stated that community schools’ principals too don’t care much and schools under such leadership were not giving good result.

Minister Sharma also stressed the need to amend the education act, education policies and curriculum to bring changes in accordance with the world’s education system.

He assured that the ministry was doing homework to analyse the reasons behind poor result among community school students.

Mahashram Sharma, Director General, Department of Education today said that surface analysis was not enough to find the reasons behind poor results from community schools.

He said, “Some community schools have 100 per cent pass results, while some schools have very poor results, therefore we need to go through these issues very seriously to find out the reasons.”

He said that out of total budget in education sector, MoE has been spending 70 per cent on teachers’ salary, 10 per cent on infrastructure development and the remaining 20 per cent on other issues such as training, scholarships and others.

Janardan Nepal, joint secretary, MoE said that they were in the process of revising the curriculum.

Babu Ram Pokharel, president, Private And Boarding Schools’ Organisation Nepal said that principals of community schools lacked power and therefore they were not able to control their school, teachers and students.

Baikuntha Aryal, Kathmandu District Education Officer said there were 1,044 pre primary schools, 190 primary schools, 111 lower secondary school, 653 secondary schools and 108 higher secondary schools in Kathmandu district.

He said, “Out of 9,706 students giving the SLC in 2012, only 6,382 passed the exam where 395 students passed with distinction, 2,975 students passed in first division, 2,941 in second division and 71 in third division.

source: The Himalayan Times,4 July 2012