+2 EDUCATION PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Posted on Sunday, May 9, 2010 |

Though establishes due to selfish and politial reasons, +2 education, in the last tow decades, has able to build is foundation in Nepal and hasin a way changed it's education system.There are approximately seven hundred thousand students enrolles in the higher education level in today's date in the country.Lack of proper national politics and management does come in the way but it wouldn't be wrong to say +2 education takes the credit for the substantial change in the way we are educated.According to the Higher Secondary Esucation Board(HSEB)statistic,there were 49950 students enrolled in the +2 system in 2001which has now increased to 6,51,000.At that time there were mere 775 +2 schools where as recent count sees the increase in number of 1,876.

The biological and psychological transitions that teenagers go through at this age male it an approriate time to make them realise their social duties and discipline.Keeping in the mind that 19 years old students require proper care and school like environment, the concept of +2 system was introduce globally,It plays huge role in guiding a large number of youth in the correct direction.In the past twenty years there have been multiple number of high schools, Tribuwan University(TU) affiliated colleges and private schools that offer it.

Ironically,the reason +2 was introduce in Nepal wasn't to provide standard education to a large populace but for political reasons.the 1979 students revolution posed a big threat to then government and rulers.A large numbers of students involved in the revolution were fresh SLC graduate enrolled in the intermediate studies offered by the TU.Frustrated by the strikes, the then government looked for a strategy to keep the students in schools and away from the politics.The Royal Higher Education Board,which was established in 1982,started working on introducing a new board that would keep students in school for two more years after class 10 and the national Panchayat's last meeting passed the bill on the policy in 1989 and works on which was started by HSEB the same year.Although in the beginning HSEB was confused and ineffective,it was only later in 1995 that it was implemented properly.Despite a politicalmotive behind it's establishment at that time,the government was ready to suspend the Intermediate Level Certificate courses offered by TU and introduce +2 system to produce well educated young population.Soon after the panchayat system fell and the new Democratic government gave away affiliation in 38 school in the academic year 1991 / 92.Butin the later years there were schools that had only grade 11 and 12 with low standard of education which has made the government issue a rule that by the end of this year all schools should be from grade 1-12 or at least 9-12.

whatever the reason and time taken for it to be implement +2 education has changed the face of the education system of Nepal.Not only is it helping produce hunred thousand competent students each year it brings in a profit of billion in an annual fiscal year.Since the introduction of +2,the way the country studies has changed and has upgrade Nepal's position among the top most in the SAARC region.Availiability of good education in grade 11 and 12 within the country has in a way put a stop to thousand of students flying out for further studies.