Tips to help your child with career choice

Students are confused about their career choices, simply because these choices change with alarmingly rapid frequency. Here are some simple strategies that have often worked well for parents:

1. Provide Exposure

Parents should try and play the role of a co-investigator, rather than just agreeing or accepting different careers that a child may be talking about. If the career interest is from your area, describe and discuss your own experiences with them. If it is not a field you are familiar with, research what it is all about, its scope, specialisations and prospects along with your child. Be an active participant in this career exploration.

2. Connect

Help the child get a real life picture of what this career is all about. Connect them with friends or relatives in that area and mine your networks to see who your child could possibly talk to. You could proactively explore for an interview or internship opportunities. A better understanding of what professionals in a particular field do on a daily basis, what inspires them, what are the challenges, how they can build their careers will go a very long way in helping a child (and therefore you) figure whether this career will work for them or not.

3. Create mentors

You may be the most encouraging and helpful parents on Earth, but when it comes to exploring and building careers, have someone else become the person your child could also turn to for advice. A friend, a relative or someone senior in the field who has taken a shine to your child can be a trusted advisor and sounding board - for you as well. Their unique insights and another perspective into the career can prove invaluable.

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Bangalore University launched students adoption scheme

Bangalore University has launched a students adoption scheme for students who cannot afford higher education including students from the weaker sections of the society and orphans. The varsity recently announced free education to master degree courses to those students who are orphans and to those cannot afford higher education. 

According to the students adoption scheme by the Bangalore University, orphan students will be offered free of cost education and boarding facilities.

The university will be offering post graduation and Ph.D programmes under this scheme. According to the reports 2 girl students are currently pursuing post graduation courses under this scheme. According to a senior official in BU, the teaching faculties of the university will be donating money to provide free education under the scheme.

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No admission to foreign students in medical colleges

Hundreds of foreign students who had enrolled this year for undergraduate programmes in private medical colleges in India now face an uncertain future due to a “tricky” domestic legislation regarding entrance examination for them. Foreign students in India come to pursue MBBS or BDS courses either through an institutional quota system, like in government colleges, or by directly applying to private colleges.

But, due to the recent ruling of the Supreme Court on making the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) mandatory for admission to private and deemed institutes, they are now facing uncertainty as they do not fall under the NEET criteria.

The NEET eligibility criteria says only Indian nationals or Overseas Citizens of India can take the exam. It does not have any mention of foreign nationals. The colleges have allegedly asked foreign students to leave the campuses by “next week”.

Tilak Silva, father of Shenali, who came from Colombo to pursue BDS at Manipal University, said, “My daughter and other foreign students are suffering now only because there is this tricky NEET procedure. First foreigners cannot write NEET exam and now these students are being compared with domestic ones. Where should we go now as we have been asked to leave the campus by October 14. The career of our children has been jeopardised.

Silva also alleged that after the apex court’s ruling, the Medical Council of India (MCI) and Dental Council of India (DCI) have been “pressurising” colleges to allow only those students who have taken NEET. How can the decision be so blanket. I have already intimated the Sri Lankan High Commission in Delhi and the Foreign Office in Colombo about this situation. We also appeal to the authorities and the Indian Prime Minister to allow some stop-gap arrangements for this 2016-17 batch so that their year is not wasted, he said.

When contacted DCI President Dr Dibyendu Mazumdar said, It is the verdict of the Supreme Court, what can we do about it. Colleges have to abide by it.

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HRD to Organise Smart India Hackathon 2017

Prakash Javadekar led Union HRD ministry is planning to hold a unique ‘Smart India Hackathon 2017’ in January-February next year, which would reach out to 30 lakh students from all technology institutes in the country.

It would be the world’s largest event, official sources told. Smart India Hackathon is a 36 hours non-stop digital programming competition during which student teams will compete to offer innovative solutions for any given problem statement, sources said.

And the aim of this initiative is to harness the creativity and technical expertise of young minds studying in technology institutes to think out of the box and come up with innovative and disruptive tech solutions for some of the daunting problems faced by our nation, a senior official said.

Sources said that recently, Higher Education secretary in the HRD ministry VS Oberoi, had written to his counterpart in other ministries asking them to assign officers to identify around 30 problem statements which are of relevance to them so that they can be put to the contestants.

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Telangana Signs MoU With ISRO To Promote Education

The Telangana government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to improve services of its educational channel Mana TV.

The MoU was inked by officials of the Department of Information Technology, Electronics & Communication of the state government, and ISRO's Development & Educational Communication Unit (DECU).

The state government and DECU will work together to create and disseminate educational content by using Satcom, so that it reaches the entire population of the state, said DECU Director Virender Kumar.

Lauding Telangana for embarking on a noble programme to use space technology, he said this would greatly contribute to the overall development of the state.

IT Minister K.T. Rama Rao said this arrangement would help the channel start coaching classes from October 1 for those appearing for Group II services examination of the Telangana Public Service Commission (TPSC).

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Nestle India to support education for girl child

Nestle India has introduced special packaging for its flagship brands - Maggi, Nescafe and Kitkat, to support education for girl children.

This initiative has been undertaken in collaboration with Nanhi Kali, an NGO, which is involved in imparting education to underprivileged girl children.

Nearly 100 million packs of these brands will be sporting this special packaging and will be available on retail shelves by the end of this month.

Maggi has changed its tag line from “2 minute noodles” to “2 minutes for education”. Kitkat has changed the visual of the finger snap to one without the break with the line “No break from education” and Nescafe changed the tagline “It all starts with a Nescafe” to “It all starts with education”, the company said in a statement.

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How to improve reading ability in students?

Developing reading skills will be helpful for the students in carrying out their studies and also in their future life wherever they go. This ability has to be cultivated in students from their childhood itself. When they are able to read well, they can learn well on their own and will understand the lessons properly. We would have heard a proverb that says, “Practice makes a man perfect.” This well suits for improving the read skills.

As teachers/educators and parents, it is our responsibility to make students read well.

Here are few methods to improve reading ability in students:-

* Create them opportunities such as preparing charts with pictures & words and post in on the walls which enables them to read and encourage them to do so.

*Ask students to read aloud in the classroom, make sure everyone gets a chance to read. This can be practiced in home too.

*If possible buy newspapers, magazines etc.., allocate reading hour for the students. While they read those things see to that they have a dictionary with them so that they can understand what they learn.

*Take students to library which is great place for improving the reading ability.

*Ask them to read books that are interested to read more such as story books, novels and book on general topics as this has the capacity to increase the reading speed.

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