The quality and dependability of instruction in Nepal has been damaged by interests for individual advantages. There are sure principles and least benchmarks or standards for each scholastic movement, whether it is directing examinations, giving new affiliations, running classes, affirmation, checking answer-sheets, or distribution of results. For the reasons of this article, all exercises in the training part that repudiate built up standards have been termed 'scholarly unlawful acts'. 

Books and instructors 

Give us a chance to begin from the circulation of reading material in schools. This matter has been significantly politicized by the Curriculum Development Center, Janak Sikshya Samagri Kendra, and Sajha Publication, who continually censure each other for the chaos. The casualties have been schoolchildren. Generally, the media has even reported that a couple of unapproved organizations have been included in printing government books unlawfully. Kids don't get the books on time, or at times, never get them by any means. In the Eastern slopes, for case, understudies did not by any means get the chance to see their course readings on agribusiness until the last minute in the keep running up to the School Leaving Certificate examinations. Regardless of mandates issued by the Department of Education, one can undoubtedly discover supposition papers, containers, arrangements, and evacuated scholars' books all over in the business sector. They discover a spot in understudies' schoolbags even before the endorsed and approved materials arrive. 

Another scholarly wrongdoing that merits specifying here is the anomaly of educators both in schools and constituent universities. Despite the fact that we can't sum up this, this puts our understudies at an awesome inconvenience. Week by week or month to month pivot of instructors in school (khetala shikshak) and educators on secondment to divided political exercises are boundless. Likewise, instructors in colleges are included in different organizations, incapacitating their classes for a considerable length of time. In constituent universities, even eminent full-time teachers can be discovered working somewhere else, sparing their college occupations for a benefits. They neither consistently lead their allocated classes nor do they finish their courses on time. No power sets out to make a move against them basically in light of the fact that they are connected to one noteworthy political gathering or the other. 

In the same setting, selecting individuals to plum college posts in view of the quality of a political gathering in national governmental issues is another scholarly wrongdoing. This offense is rehashed by the chancellors and star chancellors of the colleges concerned. The trio or the couple holding top positions separate amongst themselves the posts of dignitary, executive, primary, grounds boss, leaders of the examination focuses, and associate grounds boss, advancing the most exceedingly bad of instructors. Where in the globe do we know about a framework that advances a teacher without a PhD and lacking distributions in scholastic diaries to the position of a partner educator or an educator? This is decisively what happens.

Exams and licences

The next unforgivable academic vice is witnessed during exams. Annual examinations at the university level are often delayed or uncertain. This affects the future of the students as their results are a prerequisite to gaining admission at a higher level elsewere. Many students have thus lost  opportunities to get scholarships because of the delay in the publication of results. Further, internal and/or practical examinations have been rendered worthless, either by awarding marks randomly to examinees or due to the halo-effect—the tendency of being biased towards a person based on the impression they have on you. A teacher trainee in practice teaching—a compulsory practical examination in the Education faculty—for instance, sometimes gets good marks even without ever having taught in a real classroom with a daily lesson plan. In this case, both the trainee teacher and their supervisor may be at fault. Examination is, therefore, losing its reliability and validity.

Giving permission to open new campuses, even those without academic and physical infrastructure, is another issue of grave concern. The problem is even worse in case of medical colleges. In part, students are also to blame for this state of affairs. Many theses submitted in the universities are either copied from Google, called ‘Google theses’, or bought from the market where ‘criminals’ openly advertise prepared theses. No wonder, most graduates are unemployed. They have the certificates but no capability at all.  

Problems galore

Going back to schools, the elections of the school management committees (SMCs) are similar to national elections where partisan politics takes the frontseat. Why so? Because this is an opportunity to manipulate the Per Child Fund (PCF) and the vacancy of teaching positions. Talking of teachers, those who were newly-appointed last year were not able to attend the schools they were assigned to due to the protests of these SMCs. Is this not a crime? That is the reason the education sector holds more than 60 percent of all financial irregularities reported to the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority.  

We do not mean to imply that the entire system and eductation sector is at fault. Still, the cases we discuss above are only a few irregularities that have crippled our education system.

The education sector, as a whole, continues to face moral questions and problems related to under-funding, lack of quality, mismanagement, politicisation, and poor access to education at all levels. To do away with such educational crimes, academic institutions should not be allowed to become a beehive of political activism. Educational anarchy has to be discouraged by all stakeholders in education and the government needs to stand firmly for good academic governance in the country. For its part, the Education Ministry should remain accountable. Until and unless these academic crimes are eradicated, the development of our nation is next to impossible.

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