Technical Education start by Higher Secondary Education Board (HSEB) of Nepal

The Higher Secondary Education Board is going introduce technical and vocational subjects from current academic session. As per a ministerial level decision taken last week, the HSEB will introduce technical and vocational subjects in Plus Two level. Currently the HSEB has been providing Plus Two education in various faculties- Science, Management, Humanities and Social Science and Education in 3,658 Higher Secondary Schools  (HSS)/Plus Two colleges across the country.

Technical and Vocational Education in School education was introduced in Grade IX from April 2013 in 99 schools in 71 districts across the country as part of the School Sector Reform Plan (SSRP).

SSRP has divided school education into two levels- Basics Education (Grade-I  to VIII) and Secondary Education (Grade IX to XII)- and categorized school education into two streams – general and technical and vocational stream.

Dr. Laba Deo Awasthi, officiating secretary at the MoE, said that the decision was made to ensure higher secondary education to SLC graduates from technical and vocational stream.

A total of 3,256 students from technical stream had appeared in SLC exam-2071 where 215 students got A+ (equivalent to 90 to 100 marks), 779 students got A (80 to 89), 2,131 students got B (60 to 79), 124 got C (40 to 59) and one got D (25 to 39).

According to Awasthi, the HSEB will grant affiliation to 99 schools which had taught technical and vocational education in grade IX and X and Department of Education will manage budget, infra structure and teachers. Diwakar Dhungel, Executive Director, Curriculum Development Center said that they had already prepared the draft of curriculum for Grades XI and XII and had discussed it with experts and deans of various faculties in different universities.