Editorial
Good HSC result
Set up vocational institutes to build technical manpower
It is heartening to note the improvement in the performance of the HSC candidates every year. Alongside the students, to whom all the plaudits and congratulations are in order, the teachers and their parents must also rejoice in the performance of their wards. It is value addition to our brain pool that we feel happy about.
Over the past several years the good thing has been the rise in the pass percentage as well in the number of GPA-5 achievers. However, the matter of concern is not only the number of unsuccessful candidates but the hard reality that a very large number of the successful candidates would not be able to find admission in public universities. There are not enough seats as of now in places of higher education. And what we fail to understand is government's lack of efforts to add to the number of seats in the public universities. And private university education being expensive, only a few lucky ones can buy it.
We feel it is time that the state made a reality check and decided whether it can continue to ignore the plight of the large number of students that pass out of the colleges every year, who are left in the lurch with a future that is less than certain. It is imperative for the government to go for establishing more vocational training schools to provide training on technical subjects including IT and software programming so that they can find easy employment both at home and abroad. There is also a need for large number of nurses and paramedics in our country, not to speak of a heavy demand for them abroad, more so with the establishment of a large number of private medical hospitals and clinics. More of nursing and medical diploma colleges should be established and more girls should be encouraged to join the nursing profession.
We cannot but be also concerned at the high percentage, as much as 40 on the average, of failure in the HSC exam. This is far too high, and while the government has decided to take appropriate action against those colleges where the number of successful candidates is nil, we must have zero tolerance for failures in other institutions too. This wastage must be stemmed.
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