There are more than half a dozen private engineering colleges affiliated to Tribhuvan University (TU). Still more colleges continue to open which are interested to take TU affiliation. TU has given affiliation not only to engineering colleges but also to the colleges of other desciplines like science, commerce, humanities etc. But the affiliation awarded to the Private Engineering Colleges is a bizarre case of affiliation.
Students of private engineering colleges, after studying a whole semester, fill up the forms for semester examination in their colleges. These forms are submitted in bulk to the Examination Control Division by the college administration. The examination control division, after taking processing time of few months, send examination entrance passes to the related colleges from where the students collect them. Upto this much of the story is very much alike with that of other TU affiliations. What follows after this is totally a case of atrocities and partiality to the private engineering colleges. Let's see how.
There are seprately four different entities of TU which are the key characters of this story. The first one is the Institute Of Engineering which is aliased as IOE. The rest ones are Pulchowk Campus (PC), Examination Control Division and the Jamal Office. IOE bears all the responsibilies of overseeing the private as well as the government-owned engineering college, PC. PC is the college run by IOE and is in ownership of the Government of Nepal which priviously was known as His Majesty's Governt (HMG). Unfortunately, among these four entities, PC lies inside the compound of IOE. Examination Control Division office lies near to IOE which is commmonly known as 'Pangre Ghar' to the students. PC's lying inside the IOE compound should make the influence of IOE on to PC obvious. But reverse is the case. IOE is very often influenced by the PC activties, student politics of PC and the existance of allies among teachers and lecturers of PC. In all this the convience and inconvenience of the private college students is never bothered to be considered. Not only is the IOE's remote-control on the hands of PC but the Examination Control Division follows PC in all respect including its examination related decisions. It is from this point arises the inequality between PC and private colleges and the private engineering colleges are suffering relentlessly.
The tragic story continues further when the students have to go to PC to take their examinations. There they receive question papers which have been prepared solely by the teachers and lecturers of PC. The teachers of PC prepare these questions on the basis of how far they covered in thier lectures in PC. Then, after the examinations, it is the teachers of PC themselves who are authorized to correct the answer papers. The Examination Control Division assigns examination roll numbers college-wise rather than from the albhabetic arrangement of the names of the examinees. Therefore, it is quite easy for the examiner correcting the answer papers, to know which college the bundle of answer papers belongs to. Since they are the teachers of PC it is quite obvious that they are biased favourably to PC. When the results are published majority of students of the private engineering colleges fail where as only few fail in PC. This is not because the private engineering college students are weak in studies. It is only because they are treated unequally. Moreover, sometimes the teacher correcting the answer papers happens to be the rival of the particular college. Such a teacher if get holds of the answer papers of that college, one can imagine what might happen!Therefore, the private engineering colleges are always in pressure to hire the teachers from PC to make the pass percent of their college significant. But even after hiring the teachers from PC offering them double money than the full time teacher of that college, students still feel hard to pass. This is the most unfortunate situation of all which, for instance, happend to 057 and 058 batch of computer and electronics in a subject called Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
In all this, TU does not seem to have undertaken any responsibility. Its job, apparantly, is just to give transcript when a private engineering student passes after going through all these atrocities of PC. If PC is the sole body determining the fate of all the students studying in private engineering colleges, why shouldn't the TU-affiliated private engineering colleges be called PC-affiliated?
For suggestions and comments: lilian.sharma@gmail.com
Students of private engineering colleges, after studying a whole semester, fill up the forms for semester examination in their colleges. These forms are submitted in bulk to the Examination Control Division by the college administration. The examination control division, after taking processing time of few months, send examination entrance passes to the related colleges from where the students collect them. Upto this much of the story is very much alike with that of other TU affiliations. What follows after this is totally a case of atrocities and partiality to the private engineering colleges. Let's see how.
There are seprately four different entities of TU which are the key characters of this story. The first one is the Institute Of Engineering which is aliased as IOE. The rest ones are Pulchowk Campus (PC), Examination Control Division and the Jamal Office. IOE bears all the responsibilies of overseeing the private as well as the government-owned engineering college, PC. PC is the college run by IOE and is in ownership of the Government of Nepal which priviously was known as His Majesty's Governt (HMG). Unfortunately, among these four entities, PC lies inside the compound of IOE. Examination Control Division office lies near to IOE which is commmonly known as 'Pangre Ghar' to the students. PC's lying inside the IOE compound should make the influence of IOE on to PC obvious. But reverse is the case. IOE is very often influenced by the PC activties, student politics of PC and the existance of allies among teachers and lecturers of PC. In all this the convience and inconvenience of the private college students is never bothered to be considered. Not only is the IOE's remote-control on the hands of PC but the Examination Control Division follows PC in all respect including its examination related decisions. It is from this point arises the inequality between PC and private colleges and the private engineering colleges are suffering relentlessly.
The tragic story continues further when the students have to go to PC to take their examinations. There they receive question papers which have been prepared solely by the teachers and lecturers of PC. The teachers of PC prepare these questions on the basis of how far they covered in thier lectures in PC. Then, after the examinations, it is the teachers of PC themselves who are authorized to correct the answer papers. The Examination Control Division assigns examination roll numbers college-wise rather than from the albhabetic arrangement of the names of the examinees. Therefore, it is quite easy for the examiner correcting the answer papers, to know which college the bundle of answer papers belongs to. Since they are the teachers of PC it is quite obvious that they are biased favourably to PC. When the results are published majority of students of the private engineering colleges fail where as only few fail in PC. This is not because the private engineering college students are weak in studies. It is only because they are treated unequally. Moreover, sometimes the teacher correcting the answer papers happens to be the rival of the particular college. Such a teacher if get holds of the answer papers of that college, one can imagine what might happen!Therefore, the private engineering colleges are always in pressure to hire the teachers from PC to make the pass percent of their college significant. But even after hiring the teachers from PC offering them double money than the full time teacher of that college, students still feel hard to pass. This is the most unfortunate situation of all which, for instance, happend to 057 and 058 batch of computer and electronics in a subject called Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
In all this, TU does not seem to have undertaken any responsibility. Its job, apparantly, is just to give transcript when a private engineering student passes after going through all these atrocities of PC. If PC is the sole body determining the fate of all the students studying in private engineering colleges, why shouldn't the TU-affiliated private engineering colleges be called PC-affiliated?
For suggestions and comments: lilian.sharma@gmail.com
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