The high percentage of pass in this year’s SSLC examination has brought yet again to sharp focus the disparity in facilities for higher studies in the southern and northern districts of Kerala.
When the southern districts of Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alapuzha, Kottayam, Idukki, and Ernakulam have excess number of seats for higher education, there is a shortage of seats in Malabar districts such as Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kannur, and Kasargod.
Although the government has been adopting temporary measures every year to close the disparity by increasing the number of seats by 10% to 20%, this has remained an annual farce affecting the quality of higher education.
