Where After High School?
Recently I asked one of my friends, “What’s your plan after graduating high school?” He said, “Well let’s see, my sister lives in Australia, so I think I’ll be applying to a university there.” Many Nepali high school students will have the same answer. In Nepal, the trend of going abroad is so high that every household in the country has at least one family member who is studying, working or living abroad. Many youngsters, who leave the country for higher studies, set their mind to get a job and settle down in foreign land. This may sound as a common phenomenon but it can result in long term economic problems for developing nations like Nepal. We hear about millions of Nepali going to Middle East and other nations as migrant workers but the rate of students going aboard and settling there is also at same level. So both ways, we are dramatically losing our labor force. It is true that the country is getting lots of money in terms of remittance and the state spends th