United Academy, united college, Princeton international school , middle point travels, new millennium high school, Shikhar boarding school, Pacific academy, covenant academy were the names I read on the body of buses parked on the ground of Bhrikuti mandav exhibition hall on May 21, 2009, the 6th day of the “13th Nepal Education and Book Fair 2009”. With so many college participation, the grandness of the event was visible. With different schools and colleges, consultancies also participating in the event, it was certain that the event would have a strong impact at list among the students who had participated in the event.
As the event was claimed as a book fair and education exhibition, I decided to analyze the event as on what impact the event would have on the student. Being more specific I decided to analyze what effect would it have on the student who wanted to study arts in future. As I myself dint have arts as in my options when I completed my SLC as it wasn’t considered good enough. So, I tried to analyze if it had changed or if the event could change it for the students.
As I went on scanning the educational stalls, I came across may of them. The first one was a foreign educational consultancy, Liberty Educational Consultancy which offered educational destinations such as US,
The educational stalls that offered arts were Himalayan Info, Maya Animation Academy Informatics \College. These institutes offered only technical courses and not a bachelors or some academic course.
The largest stalls belonged to +2 colleges such as Goldengate International Collage. The college offered +2 in science, management and humanities, BSc,MSc and also BA. While it had a lot of work exhibition exposed in Different stalls, from mini hydro to vacume made flying carper. When I asked if the college offered BA also the information desk said they had and gave me some brochure that had list of courses offered and short brief about them.
Was it because the colleges that offered arts couldn’t effort to buy stalls, or were the students interested in arts not expected in the event. Or was it the effect of capitalism in the field of education, stalls for the students of arts wasn’t present there.
The technical courses that were offered might have impacted that arts had gone even more commercialized and not as a field of study.
Overall the event still claimed that arts was the last option or dint even consider it as a field of study claiming the students with their potential in arts will still be divorted to different fields not even getting to know their skills this field.
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