A meeting of eight student unions affiliated with the non-ruling parties including the Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist on Tuesday demanded removal of international names of the higher-secondary schools reasoning that such trend had hurt national dignity. [break]
The meeting also demanded that higher-secondary schools stop giving extravagant and provocative advertisement to lure students, running schools after foreign names, charging exorbitant fees to students and irregularities and corruption in the Higher Secondary Education Board and Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training.
´We have decided to draw attention of the government towards the need to remove the foreign names of the higher secondary schools and to check corruption rife in the HSEB and CTEVT´, said Chairperson of Nepal Students´ Union (NSU) Ranjit Karna.
The meeting today also decided to stage a sit-in before the HSEB and CTEVT on July 26, gherao the Education Ministry on July 27, hold broad-based interaction with stakeholders on July 29 and announce further protest programmes on July 30.
The meeting was attended by NSU President Karna, ANNFSU Chairperson Madhav Dhungel, Coordinator of CPN-Maoist-aligned ANNISU (Revolutionary) Sharad Rasaili and representatives of Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Nepal Peasants Workers Party, Rastriya Janashakti Party, among others.
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