HSC results
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When commenting on this year's results of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations, the education minister told that the relentless effort by the students and hard labour of the teachers and guardians paved the way for such good results. He also told that the government wanted to reach the goal of making hundred percent pass rate and ensure quality education. These are good words and sound convincing. But what is happening in reality? Education quality and learning environment are absent in most of the educational institutions. Now the system is moving forward riding the diligent efforts of the students and their guardians and the commercially motivated undertakings of the coaching centres. Sometimes we hear that the government authorities would take measures to do away with the coaching centres but nothing is being done. The guardians of the students are to spend a lot of time and money to overcome the shortcomings of the educational institutions. Majority of the teachers are only interested to teach the students in their houses and in the coaching centres they are attached with. The guardians of the students are to find out alternate means to bear the additional expenses for their children. Besides, before we go for hundred percent pass rate the government must ensure how and where the students will pursue their future education. Let us not count the seats in the private universities, most of which are coaching centres in disguise. Higher pass rate does not necessarily mean quality. Number of GPA-5 achievers was 11140 in 2007 and it is 20136 in 2009. Does it mean that the quality went up hundred percent in this short period?
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