In the hot pursuit of the proper institution, the studetns are seeking advice from all possible quarters. Indeed, they need to draw from all possible quarters. Indeed, they need to draw from wisdom and prudence during this cruicial period to take a proper decision. failure to do so today could impede their progress tomorrow.

The relatively immaturity of the students, lack of knowledge about the education systems here and abroad and lack of self-confidence pose a big hurdle in making the right decision. That is the reason they are vigorously seeking proper guidance.

Be it choosing the proper stream of study (subject) or identifying the suitable institution, the experience of seniors will be of grear help to these students. Parents, high school teachers and senior relatives all can give them proper suggestions. Education consultancies, too, offer proper counceling on various career oppertunities availabnle in the country and abroad.

These days, newspaper are filled with advertisements of colleges and other institutes that provide higher secondary education. The state of electronic media is no different. The time before, after and in between every program, particularly popular ones, is filled with "admission open" notices.

The myriad colleges mushrooming in the cities have posted flashy advertisement deliberately designed to attract the attention of the tender minds. While they provide information in different options available to students, they are also pushing many into greater perplexity. The credibility of many adverstisement is poor.

The colleges, when visited, turn out to be different from what is shown or stated in the advertisement. "Many institutes I visited were nothing more than a rented building with some furniture," says Pratikshya Shrestha of Patan. "They were not as good as they had been shown in the advertisements."

The rhetorically explained teaching strategy is lacking in most colleges. Many institutions do not have essential physical infrastructure. Some are reported to have exaggerated the faculty line-up just as to attract students.

The service of education is conspicuously different from other commodities, which demand attractive ads to reach customers. For this reason, educational institutions should have made a trend of publicaticizing themselves by simple notices. Governmental officials, who have recognized the necessity of banning health-related advertisement, have not felt the need for a similar policy in the education sector.

At this stage of life, students are in dire need of suggestions and counceling about life and career. Obviously it is the responsibility of the parents to show their children the way. However, in an underdeveloped country like ours, most of the parent are so ignorant of the changing that they can hardly help their children in any education related problems. It is therefore more important for the schoold from which students have graduated and their teachers to provide proper guidance.

Most school, however, do noot provide councling service while the students are there, much less after they have grduated. They feel their job accomlished once the student have graduated. In most cases, it is the senios' experience that has the most effect on students.

Some education consultancies have opened in hte cities lately, but very few provide real counceling. Most of them are replicas of the manpower companies that send people abroad to work without providing proper guidance. As a result, students have little idea of what to expect or do.