Kathmandu. The Nobel Academy has been found to have unauthorized access to students’ personal details. New Baneshwor-based Nobel Academy has been found to have unauthorized access to personal data in the name of student admissions and used it for commercial purposes.

The Nobel Academy has been collecting the personal mobile numbers of SEE-appearing students across the country from various illegal sources. The college obtains the private information of students and parents through the ‘setting’ with the schools or through various institutions. It is legally punishable to take personal information and use it for commercial purposes without the consent of the concerned person. The college has used the data collected in this way as the main weapon of its ‘admission campaign’.

Not only this, the college has been using teachers in this work. At the beginning of the academic session, instead of allowing teachers to prepare for teaching in the classroom, the college gives the teacher a list of students and a mobile phone. Teachers are forced to use their personal mobile numbers to call unfamiliar students.

The college administration has assigned a ‘task’ to the teachers to call a certain number of students every day. It has also been found that students are being given mental pressure to enroll in college by giving them various assurances and inducements through the phone.

Using teachers as ‘labourers’ to find students has not only hurt their self-esteem but has also directly affected the quality of teaching. On the one hand, the violation of students’ right to privacy, and on the other hand, the forcible appointment of intellectual manpower as market representatives, has exposed the business mindset of the Nobel Academy.