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Young World
Colleges and careers
RANJANA NARAYAN
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Are cut off marks at universities daunting? No fears, there are private colleges to pursue your education...
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Ramesh Sharma
Waiting for the doors of education to open...
Times have changed today. Children are no more the staid types — heading straight for a Bachelor's degree in some college just because they have to do it, and their friends are doing it too.
The 18-year-olds who step out of school after finishing their Std. XII now are more focussed.
"Masti and studies," is how an exuberant Himanshu puts it. "People these days are going in for more career-oriented courses."
With Delhi University colleges having placed their qualifying marks at a forbidding high, several students like Esha, Sonali and Ankit have enrolled at privately-run colleges for more job-specific courses like bachelor of business administration, mass communication, hotel management, multi-media, travel and yourism and so on.
"We don't want to waste time doing B.A. and B. Com," says Aarti. She has from Mumbai to pursue a course in mass communication at a privately run Delhi college.
Delhi University colleges like Indraprastha, Gargi, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce are today offering courses like journalism apart from regular courses. But here too, the seats are limited and the qualifying marks high. Hence private colleges like Amity International, Rai Foundation and Skyline College help children to pursue their dream. The courses are job-oriented, classes smaller, resulting in a better student-teacher ratio, and with several extra-curricular activities thrown in.
"We meet the professional career needs of students," avers Praveen Puri, who heads Skyline College in South Delhi. "The globe is a village today. We have anticipated changes and brought in courses adapted to today's needs. We work backwards from what the market wants."
But Hindu College lecturer Dr. Tapan Basu who teaches English feels a student who steps out of school needs to get a general grasp of life, broad base his knowledge, before he or she goes in for a profession-oriented course.
"A job-oriented course is applied knowledge. But one should widen one's vision first beyond the immediate goal.
"Like a carpenter or cobbler, one will be good at the job but illiterate towards the world at large," Dr. Basu says. "Open universities are very flexible, so a student along with a job-oriented course can also widen his sphere of knowledge." For those daunted by the stiff cut-off points, Delhi University as well as Indira Gandhi National Open University, Annamalai and some other universities offer correspondence courses, he says.
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