HSC results show rising trend

While we share the joys of the successful students we must also think of the 40 per cent who failed. Whose fault is it that one valuable year from their lives stands lost? Of course the final responsibility lies with the students. But the school system cannot shrug off its own role in it. If we have a system that produces such a large percentage of failures then something seriously must be wrong with it.

However, the good news is that we seem to be on the mend. Being a country with one of the largest populations in the world there is no option for us but to invest in the development of human resources. As the saying goes that even the most unskilled person can be turned into a wealth producer with just a modicum of education and skill training. Therefore we need to invest most energetically and creatively to educate our masses.

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Starting with our students is obviously the right thing to do. Our secondary schools lack trained teachers, adequate books and a modern curriculum. There is also the lack of extra-curricular facilities that help provide a more complete education that the modern world needs. Given everything else our higher secondary education now seems to have steadied into a course from which we can hope to get more positive results.

Along with the rising percentage of passing students we also need to focus on quality of education. The 21st century world needs two types of human resource -- the creative and the skilled. To be the creative citizens of the future we really need to improve the quality of education and make it geared towards expanding the intellectual horizon of our students.