Kathmandu, August 1:

A committee formed under the co-ordination of Laba Prasad Tripathee, the joint secretary of the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES), today submitted a report on the demands made by Council of Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT) students.

The report states that the demands are genuine and that the government should take steps to address them. The Tribhuvan University (TU) has been asked to take in CTEVT students wishing to pursue higher education, Tripathee said. Students’ representatives and government officials, in talks held today, agreed to give the government a week’s time so that the CTEVT students could sit for the TU entrance examination.

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 had been out in the streets with their demands for the past one week.