The Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT) has started the process of admitting students without entrance examination for Certificate Level (PCL) Nursing, General Medicine (HA), Pharmacy etc. CTEVT has removed the provision regarding entrance examination after students started enrolling less than the prescribed number of seats. Now students will be admitted on the basis of SEE/SLC score.

CTEVT has been admitting students based on the marks obtained in the entrance examination. According to Member Secretary Mahesh Bhattarai, from this year according to the admission guidelines-2082, students who have passed SEE/SLC from public schools will be given an additional 1 point and those who have passed from private schools will be given 0.85 points, the list will be determined based on merit. Students can apply online for that. Apart from the fact that the entrance exam will not be conducted, students can be admitted to individual, partnership and private educational institutions based on the admission criteria and procedures of last year, he said.

CTEVT's new decision was appealed to the Supreme Court. But member secretary Bhattarai said that the Supreme Court has opened the way for students to be admitted on the basis of SEE score without taking the entrance exam. According to the policy and program of the government, it was decided to remove the entrance exam. In the policy and program of 2082/83, it is mentioned that students who have completed school education will be admitted to technical and professional or university education based on grading.

CTEVT has opened admissions in various subjects like PCL Nursing, HA, Pharmacy, Engineering, Agriculture and Hospitality towards health. More than 55 thousand seats have been secured in all subjects and programs of CTEVT. But only 40 thousand students participate in the entrance exam. According to the data of the previous years, only 48 percent of the seats allotted by CTEVT were admitted.

CTEVT said that students are comfortable with the arrangement of not conducting the entrance exam and applying for admission online. Students with minimum GPA of 2.0 or minimum second rank in SLC in SEE can apply. Students enrolled in scholarship and full-fee programs must also apply. Some student organizations have opposed the decision to admit students without an entrance exam. In some cases, during the conduct of exams and admissions, complaints of students and parents being cheated were also received in CTEVT.

Students' interest is seen in nursing, HA, pharmacy, civil engineering and other subjects. All the students who want to study these subjects are not able to study due to lack of number of seats. There is data that the quotas are vacant due to lack of admission of students according to seats in health lab, radiography and other subjects, non-civil engineering subjects, agriculture and hospitality hotel management. PCL nursing has the highest number of students but due to limited seats not all students get admission. After the Medical Education Act 2075 provided that only educational institutions with their own 100-bed hospitals can provide nursing education, most of the affiliated colleges have been closed. 2 thousand 520 seats have been fixed in 63 colleges for nursing. Earlier, students were admitted to about 5000 seats.

Although the number of technical schools has increased threefold in a decade, the attraction of student enrollment has not been seen. By 2070, the number of technical schools, which were around 500, has reached more than 1500. In academic year 2080/81, only 57% and 34% of students with certificate and below certificate level were enrolled. Since 52 percent of the seats had stopped getting students enrolled, CTEVT started giving the right to conduct entrance exams to educational institutions from 2080. Before that, there was a system of admitting students on the basis of merit by conducting integrated entrance examination.