On Tuesday 05 Oct 2010 6:59:01 am Deepa Mohan wrote: > There is now Law, and > Catering and Fine Arts, and so the list grows. >
Deepa. Currently Law, catering and fine arts are tier 3 (where medicine and engineering are tier 1). Tier 2 is "Commerce" But no child who finishes class 10 in India has an inkling of the type of skills and knowledge required to do commerce, law, fine arts or catering. However 100% of children leaving class 10 know what is required for engneering or medicine. For those of you who live in India I ask you to perform a simple experiment - which should be easy for silk-listers who are also book readers. The next time you are in a book shop ask for the text books for 11th or 12th standard, and then compare the material offered wih the requirements for an engineering, law or medical entrance exam. You will find nothing that helps a child write a law entrance exam. Catering and fine arts are not even considered options - except by the elite - who are (like I said earlier) able to reel off a list of alternative vocations. Catering has no entrance exams. Only one fine arts course that I know of has an entrance exam. And who in India actually thinks of nursing, physiotherapy, archaeology, economics as career options? Why is it that children who enter 9th standard know about engineering and medicine (and nowadays "commerce") but get nothing in their curriculum to inform them let alone equip them to follow courses like law, fine arts or catering? shiv
