MALAPPURAM: The shortage of higher education options for students who pass Class 10 in the district is looming large this year too. For the 79,816 students who earned the eligibility for higher education this year, only 54,442 seats are available and this figure includes all the seats in Higher Secondary schools, VHSEs, Polytechnics and ITIs in the district.
Around 25,368 students will have to seek other options including open schooling. Once the results of SAY exam, CBSE, ICSE Class X are published the figure will go up further adding to scarcity.
The statistics in the last decade clearly shows that there was no infrastructural developments in tandem with a steady growth in the Class X results. The total SSLC pass percentage of the district has grown from 61.91per cent in 2006 to 98.30 in 2015. This year the percentage is 95.84, a decrease of 2.46 per cent.
In 240 higher secondary schools, including government, aided and unaided segments only 49,686 seats are available in 985 batches for Plus One. In the case of Vocational Higher Secondary schools, there are 2,175 seats in 87 batches. 1,494 seats are available in seven Polytechnics and 1,087 seats in six Industrial Training Institutes in the district.
Many organisation have raised this issue for the past few years. After many agitations, the government had approved more batches in higher secondary schools besides new schools. However, the organisations accuse the government’s failure to provide infrastructure. Despite the shortage of seats, the district has achieved stunning success in the SSCL exams.
Annual 10th exams. 83,285 students had attended for the SSLC exam at various schools in Malappuram and bagged a record number of full A+ grades in the state. 3,555 students in the district got the top grade in all subjects.
