A committee formed under the co-ordination of Laba Prasad Tripathee, the joint secretary of the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES), on Tuesday submitted a report on the feasibility of the Council of Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT) students' demands.
The report states that the demands are genuine and that the government should take steps to address them. The Tribhuvan University (TU) has been requested to take in CTEVT students wishing to pursue higher education in the university.
"We have requested the university to admit CTEVT students who wants to pursue higher education," Tripathee said.
Students' representatives and government officials, in talks held on Tuesday, agreed to give the government a week's time so that the CTEVT students could sit for the TU entrance examination.
Meena Aryal, the vice-president of the Valley Joint Nursing Struggle Committee, said the students would form a monitoring committee to see whether the government keeps its word of allowing the students to join the TU.
The students had been demanding that all proficiency certificate level (PCL) students of the CTEVT be given the opportunity to pursue bachelor level courses in universities. They had also been demanding that the CTEVT degree be treated as equivalent to the TU degree.
The students pursuing courses in nursing, agriculture, pharmacy, ophthalmic assistant, health assistant and laboratory technicians had been out in the streets for the past one week seeking fulfillment of their demands.
The TU used to take in CTEVT graduates for higher studies till the year 1999. However, the university quashed the provision after that.
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