Education Minister Dina Nath Sharma today urged Plus Two colleges to invest on quality education and teachers’ facilities rather than spend on expensive advertisements.

Even if it is the age of advertisement, big expensive ads cannot beat investment in quality education, he said addressing the 8th Wai Wai 2069 annual education award presented by Aajako Aawaj Media today.

Rather than spending millions on advertisements, he said, educational institutions should enhance the standard of education, increase teachers’ facilities and reduce monthly fees.

“It will be appreciable if academic institutions prove themselves by producing capable students,” he said, stressing that institutions should focus on practical aspects of learning rather than sticking to the curriculum.

“Our education system is erroneous, therefore it should be corrected,” he said adding that education should be able to create more than just certificate holders.

Technical and vocation education is the need of the hour, he said.

At the award ceremony, he handed over certificates to SLC toppers, Plus two toppers, A Level topper and others.

Nischal Dahal with 93.75 per cent from Riviera School and Aakrista Karmacharya with 92.13 per cent from I J Pioneer School were conferred with SLC 2068 District Toppers Award from Kathmandu and Lalitpur district respectively.

Likewise, Iraj Parajuli with 93.88 per cent from Mount View Boarding School and Robinson Duwal with 90.12 per cent from Bageshwori Higher Secondary School received SLC 2068 Valley Top Award from private and public school category respectively. Aastha Koirala with 88.86 per cent received Plus Two Top Award and Bikash Adhikari with 89.6 per cent in Grade XI from Kanjirowa School got Eleven Top Award today.

Many other students, school owners and Plus Two colleges were also honoured with various awards.

Meanwhile, Prakriti Adhikari, president of Education Journalists Network currently working at Gorkhapatra Daily and Prakash Silwal, president of Education Journalist Group currently working at Rastriya Samachar Samiti were conferred with education journalist award.

source: The Himalayan Times,3 July 2012