Education consultancies lack transparency

Kathmandu, Oct. 5: Educational consultancies that are working in the name of sending students abroad for higher education have been running without transparency, specific policies or code of ethics, speakers at the programme organised by Education Journalists' Group on Friday commented. The ministry does not have any legal provision and policy to punish those opened without registration or indulged in malpractice, said Ashok Kharel, under secretary of School Administration at the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES). The ministry has only been keeping record and giving 'no objection letter' to students who have applied to go abroad for study under self-finance and the ministry's scholarship quota. Kharel, however, informed that ministry had stopped giving such letters for some universities of Bangladesh and Denmark. …………There are about 400 consultants in the Kathmandu Valley alone working as consultants for students willing to go abroad to study. But the actual number of such consultants is not known. [View Full Article]