Morung Express News
Dimapur | May 18
Despite the lofty deconstruction by almost every section of the Naga society on why the performance of Nagaland government schools continues to flounder, there apparently is no shift of gears on the ground.
Seeing an improvement in the dismal results produced year- after- year by government run educational institutions appear a distant dream, even as this year’s pass percentage of the government schools in the NBSE’s High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) results stood at a dismal 40.77%. Percentage wise, this is a drop of 1.83% as compared to the 2017 HSLC results.
While there may be celebrations in the name of a couple of government schools securing 100% pass percentage, the bleak reality of how government educational institution is gradually sinking into a coma is clearly evident by the stagnant below-average pass percentage produced every year.
The NBSE in an overview of the results of HSLC & HSSLC Examinations 2018 revealed that the HSLC pass percentage of government schools since 2014 have been oscillating between 30-40%- give or take a few percentages in between the alternating years.
In 2014, the pass percentage of government schools stood at 41.69%; in 2015, it dipped down to 34.55%, then 32.81% in 2016, only to rise up to 42.60% in 2017 and a drop to 40.77% this year.
The NBSE, in 2017, viewed that the pass percentage in government schools in HSLC increased from 32.81% in 2016 to 42.60% in 2017, hailing it as an increase by over 29%. However, it should be noted that the pass percentages of government run schools have been swimming below the 50 percent for years- an indication of abject inactivity towards improvement.
A comparison of the number of government schools with zero pass percentage year-wise also is analogous. In 2014, a total of 24 government schools had zero pass percentage, which increased to 38 in 2015 and dipped to 30 schools in 2016. Government schools in 2017 retained the same figure as the previous year. This year, 24 government schools showed zero/nil results.
