Cartoon exhibition on education situation concludes

By A Staff Reporter,Kathmandu, Dec. 28: A two-day educational cartoon exhibition "Blackboard Tamashoma Cartoonam Gamaya" held at the Nepal Art Council concluded on Tuesday. The exhibition had begun on Monday.

The challenges seen in the education sector after the COVID-19 pandemic and the inconsistencies in the education sector were highlighted in the cartoon exhibition. Every cartoon in the exhibition threw satires at the policy rules of education, the stakeholders in the education sector and the anomalies seen in the education sector.

Sixty five different cartoons related to education made by various cartoonists were put on the display in the exhibition jointly organised by NCE Nepal and Cartoonists Club of Nepal. 

The education situation in Nepal and the compulsion of Nepali students to go abroad for higher education were depicted in the cartoons. In addition, the cartoon also showed the difference between the education situation of the urban areas and the villages.

In a cartoon showing a mother, father and daughter, the mother says to the father, "What a cheap fee, what does the neighbour say?" It was a mockery of those parents who invest money in their children's education to show their so called high standards in the society.  The cartoon exhibition also ridiculed how private schools were charging high fees.