By Manjima Dhakal

Kathmandu, Apr. 27: The results of school level final examinations have become uncertain even more than a month after the exams concluded as the schools are unable to find a proper medium to disseminate the results to the guardians of the students.
Though the government as well as academic institutions are preparing to run virtual classes for the students, the schools have been unable to publish the results of their students due to the lockdown.
The students are unable to receive their progress report even after they were upgraded to higher classes.
Schools are unable to publish the results due mainly to their inability to fix the medium to disseminate the results to their students and guardians.
Hom Nath Bhandari, headmaster of Prabhat Secondary School, Bharatpur and also coordinator of Divyanagar Resource Centre based Examination Committee, said all 22 schools under the resource centre had almost completed preparations to publish the results, but were waiting for the best medium to disseminate the result to the students.
Bhandari said the centre-based schools would publish results after the lockdown tomes to an end. “If the lockdown is extended for long, the centre will publish the result even from virtual medium. They will convey the result to guardians from phone calls,” he said.
Rita Tiwari, headmaster of Padma Kanya Secondary School, Kathmandu said they were also preparing to publish results from virtual medium within a few days.
However, some community and private schools have already published the results with the help of virtual medium. Schools like Vishwo Niketan Secondary School, Tripureshwor, Gyanodaya Secondary School, Bafal and others published the results last week through virtual medium.
Though the schools published the results on their website and Facebook page, it is not sure that all guardians and students were informed about their progress report, because many guardians and children don’t have an access to such medium, Heramba Raj Kandel, headmaster of Vishwo Niketan Secondary School, Tripureshwor said.
However, many schools have not prepared anything for results till now. Many teachers of community schools returned to their home in different parts of the country prior to the enforcement of lockdown without submitting answer sheets, Rambandu Subedi, education officer of the Mahalaxmi Municipality, Lalitpur said. The municipality is not in a condition to pressurize schools in such a situation, Subedi said.
Sita Ram Koirala, education officer of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, said even if schools prepared results of students, they could not disseminate them to the guardians and students as many guardians didn’t have internet access.
However, Koirala said if the lockdown got extended it would ask all schools to disseminate results from virtual medium.
Tulsi Prasad Thapaliya, director general at the Centre for Education Human Resource Development (CEHRD), said the CEHRD could not direct schools about results as the local government had the right to manage school education. However, Thapaliya asked not to delay publishing results and keep the students in confusion regarding their progress status prior to upgrading to higher classes.
As liberal promotion up to Grade IX is the national policy of education, schools could publish results of students even on the basis of internal assessment if they are facing problems in checking answer sheets, Thapaliya said.
Meanwhile, private schools’ organisations, PABSON and NPABSON have asked their members to publish results soon.