TIME TO TAKE A DECISION

Pavan is an enthusiastic and a high energy kid. Ambitious and strongly focused towards his career goal, Pavan is sharing his views on the process of career guidance and planning. Pavan underwent the career guidance and career planning session last year.

 
HUZZ……BUZZ ………everywhere in schools do you know why, but I know because everyone is tensed and are anxious about their 10th board exams. Everyone after writing/finishing the board exams have to take a decision. It is time to take a decision about their future. Because life is a road and a person travels on this road of life and at this particular time and point he/she, but a student comes to a fork or to halt on their journey of life as they are in front of a road which has many divided sections of roads and this roads can be treated as the courses taken in inter first and second year. They are as follows Mpc, Bipc, CEC, MEC, HEC, etc. These are the roads for the students and at this particular point of time one has to take a decision as to on which road he has to travel or which course he has to take and on which he has interest and may have a bright future.

The student himself has to take decision as on this decision his future is dependent. Students are responsible for their future and they can’t blame others in future saying that because of u now I am suffering. It is time for every student to realize and to make a decision about his/her future. Always remember that “right decisions at right times bring bright results.”

Then why waste time? Go, run, get information about all the courses and colleges offering the groups and then take a decision but decide very carefully because it is your future and don’t try to play with it. And I request all the parents not to force their children to take a course that has a lot of demand in the society. We all know that parents are concerned about their child’s future but they should also give him a chance and try to find out where his interests are.
And if you have any problem, you can consult for aptitude test which can be written online and one of them is dheya.com. I opted for it and I am now enjoying my studies and I am also happy with my decision because at first I wanted to be an army man and the course for it is MPC but I am a lot weak in math’s and I don’t have any interest towards physics and chemistry. So I thought and decided to take CEC, and whatever may happen will happen.

Many criticized my decision and soon I was in a dilemma about my decision of taking CEC. But soon my mother noticed my position and she advised me to write an aptitude test. Aptitude means ability. I wrote the test and he guided me through the right path. They told everything about all the courses and that my decision is right and also asked me not to fear that my decision is wrong. They also said that people say many things but it is your future and nobody will help when u will listen to them and change your decision and opt for an unwilling course. There will be none and u can’t blame anyone about your fate. So try and wake up to take a decision.

And one more thing. After coming back home, after listening to them I still had a guilty feeling in me but after a few months I started enjoying my studies and I also top my class every time is it not enough for me and my parents.

A Note to the Parents

Dear parents, please kindly remember that when a child enjoys his studies he tries to learn more. “Marks are not important, but knowledge is important and when knowledge is gained then it automatically reflects in your marks. “And I also can give you an example when a boy or girl plays a game they try to play more efficiently in the next game as they enjoyed it and want to learn more of it. And when a student doesn’t like or is not interested in studies but still is forced to study, then he tries to opt for important points and mugs them up and vomits in the answer sheet. So let them enjoy their studies. Then they try to learn more of the subject. Even the scientists proved that a person in 24 hours of a day gets only 4 hours of concentration and in the remaining hours whatever he studies can’t be remembered, and none can tell when a person really obtains this concentration. 

Mmy name is V.PAVAN TANAY NAG;
INTER FIRST YEAR STUDENT, C.E.C, ALPHORES JUNIOR COLLEGE, KARIMNAGAR.
YOURS SINCERELY,
V.PAVAN TANAY NAG

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Need of the Hour: Career Guidance & Career Planning in India

Indian Education has many issues to deal with. Since the year 1835 the British started tinkering with the India’s traditional education system of ‘Guru shyshya’ which was value based and focussed on outcome and application of learning.

The new age education came into being with schools and colleges being set up across India.

In 1948 when the Radhakrishnan Commission was set up with an intention of designing a new National University Education Policy of free India, the commission stressed on the outcome of education into social, economic and cultural goals of the nation.

Dr S Radhakrishnan in his words said:

“The most important and urgent reform needed in education is to transform it, to endeavor to relate it to the life, needs and aspirations of the people and thereby make it the powerful instrument of social, economic and cultural transformation necessary for the realization of the national goals. For this purpose, education should be developed so as to increase productivity, achieve social and national integration, accelerate the process of modernization and cultivate social, moral and spiritual values.” ⁵

Since 1956 Commissions and committees were set up to deal with non-implementation of earlier recommendations and identifying gaps in the Education system.

On the ground, apart from introducing little new regulatory compliance there were no major changes that could be effected towards building outcome of education to the social, economic and cultural goals of the country.

In reality the focus of higher education always has been away from the outcome and application to just input based education. Outcome here means the education resulting in either economic growth or increased capability of the learner.

Unfortunately today education has minimal relevance to occupation, passion, interest of the individual learner. The age old beliefs have created havoc in making a choice of education. The aspirational needs, abilities and interest of the individual have been ignored. This has led to non-compatibility, career failures, drop outs and unemployables.

Today the youth do not value higher education. They acquire degrees with no connection to their occupations they would like to pursue. This is visible with higher un-employability and unemployment in the country. Hence, the gross enrolment ratios and dropout rates are far from desired.

The government is doing all it can to improve access of education. It’s a known fact that 73% of the population lives in rural India, however 90% of the educational institutes are in urban India ⁶. I believe that it’s a superficial measure of increasing enrolments.

 

Towards Valuing Higher Education

The youth of India will value education only when they see benefits that result in their social, economic and personal growth. There needs to be sustained effort on helping the youth realize their potential and guide them into the right education which will lead them into a career that satisfying yet economically fulfilling.

Today 98% of young boys and 96% of young girls are confused while making a career decision⁷. The confusion is due to the lack of information and skill for making career decisions. This confusion drives them into making unfocussed investments of time, effort and money into education that may or may not deliver returns.

A scientific career guidance process with a reliable information base on education and career would transform the current scenario.

Guiding the student into taking up education that would lead to a career that’s compatible to his or her personal abilities, passion, interests, values and personality, would never let the interest levels in education diminish. Moreover, research tells us that students who are able to understand and internalize the connections between school and work will be more actively engaged in their academic tasks and will be more likely to succeed in high school ⁸

 

^{Excerpts from the paper ‘Relooking at the Indian Education System” Published by Anand Desai, Founder Dheya (www.dheya.com ), A complete Career Guidance and Planning Company.}

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Skill Development Initiatives will transform India: FM… WILL THEY???

 

 

 

What the FM said is theoretically and conceptually right. We at Dheya Lifelong Learning believe that the focus needs to be on EMPLOYABILITY and not just skill development. 

Dheya’s employability programs focus on building the3 major pillars of Employability. These are competencies that enhance the employability of the student. The first being the academic competence (an ability to read , write, analyse, calculate etc), the second being the process competence (an ability to manage the work assigned which includes ability, skills and knowledge to perform on the job ) and the third is about Personal competence and life skills (the most important of all to remain employed and groowing). We believe just be enhancing the skills with no personal competencies is a sheer waste.

The times of India reported that the FM said here on Wednesday that there was no alternative to effective private participation and partnerships for the government to achieve the target of increasing gross enrolment ratio (GER) in Indian higher education from the existing 12.5 pc to 30 pc. The GER  refers to the percentage of students in the age group of 17 to 24 years enrolling for  higher education on completion of their standard XII studies .

This looks damn neat when the FM says this but the words and actions of the government are absolutely divergent in nature. There is absolutely no or minimal effort in getting the private players to actually participate in the process.

Today the  Developed countries in Europe and the US have a GER of more than 60 pc.  whereas the world average is 25 pc. One of the key reasons for a low GER is not about access but about the value we derive out of education and a big disconnect between education its outcome towards economic and cultural growth of the individual.

The FM  was absolutely right calling for a  rapid multiplication of skill development initiatives for transforming India from a ‘degree-seeking’ to a ‘skill acquiring system’. He said that quality ought to be the focal point of all policies and programmes in education. unfortunately the culture of “degree seeking” came in from the public sector as in the past degrees not the skills or competencies ever mattered in the recruitment process of the public sector. The change would happen when competencies are measured more than the marks at the time of admissions, recruitments and entry into various fields. 

The change would also happen when we link up academics to employability and start measuring the results of the institute based on the employability quotient of the students.

The change would also happen if we help the students plan their career and align their educational efforts towards the career would like to pursue.

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Being more Indian in Education

 

I guess this is what is needed. Its important to be an Indian and feel like an Indian.  Its just not the graduation gown but the entire modern education system is “a sign of colonial slavery”.

 

Its so funny that the vendor who provides these gowns and mortarboards gives it on rent for a day. Its big business I must say. Everyone who wears it looks like a clown of the day.

Jairam Ramesh yesterday gave the graduation gown a dressing down.

The environment minister declared at a Madhya Pradesh convocation that the academic square hat and gown worn at such events was “barbaric”, almost echoing the state’s ruling BJP whose ministers had dubbed the dress “a sign of colonial slavery”.

Ramesh rooted for “some- thing more Indian”. “Why do we stick to the barbaric dress? Why can’t we have a simple dress for such functions?” Ramesh asked the organisers of the convocation at Bhopal’s Indian Institute of Forest Management where he was the chief guest.

The dress, which Indian

universities would have pick- ed up from the Oxford and Cambridge tradition, does not suit the Indian weather, he added, before going on to question the need for such ceremonies.

“Such convocations are boring. We must live with the times,” Jairam said, discarding his square hat and red-yellow gown.

Later, he declared that the tradition of throwing the mortarboard in the air was also “uncalled for”.

Inspite of all the comments made by Jairam Ramesh, students were, nonetheless, seen doing exactly that in celebration.

For an education Indian middle class family, 1/3rd to half of the family income goes in educating their kids. 

There is hardly any such family that doesn’t proudly flaunt the picture

of at least one of its members in graduation gear in the living room cupboard or on the wall.

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GOOD INTENT , ZERO PASSION , DOUBTFUL EXECUTION … The Right of EDUCATION ACT

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Right of education is just about giving access to schools. Its important to build education around economic and social goals of the future. Heart of education is in its outcome into economic &cultural growth, access doesn't matter.When people see value in education enrolment will improve.


One April 1st 2010 the historic right to education bill 2009 came into being. The bill will supposedly ensure each and every child from the age of 6 to 14 get primary /elementary compulsory education.. I must admit, there are great intentions behind the bill. I also would like to admit that its a “GOOD Intent, zero passion & doubtful execution

program.

I have been studying this bill since it was tabled in the parliament till it finally got a nod last August 2009. Its a big challenge to the government to actually implement this bill. It may take several years to actually see results from this bill or it could be just another scheme like the NREGA or the mid day meal with either minimal or no social impact.

This bill would ensure accessibility, for sure, but doesn't answer what quality, and what content or the outcome of education. Here when i read the goals of this act i really doubt if it could achieve any level of impact on the learner. I still believe that its more important to analyse the content in this bill. There seems to be no mention of how academics and academicians will actually let these people learn the basics.

In my visits to villages and remote places I found that the teachers are nothing but a figure who represents the schools. With no passion for education he is more interested in signing the muster and earning the wage. I wonder how do we actually train these teachers to enhance quality. What about passion for education??? I am not sure if passion can be built or enhanced, it should come from within.

About the 25% reservation in private schools, I believe its another way of a quota or a rout to get some class of people admitted in the school. May be it would work or it would be a back end entry fro few.

One point i must appreciate and firmly believe is about not  FAILING students. I hope this gets implemented across widely and firmly.

Whatever it is its a good beginning. The country knows that something is better that nothing at all. The only problem is execution. If a clean and swift execution could be managed, this act could do wonders for the future apart from enhancing the quality of education.

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