SCERT career guidance prog receives positive response

Kohima | December 19: The intensive career guidance and counseling programmes by the State Council of Educational Research & Training (SCERT) Nagaland in collaboration with Gateway Career Consultancy has already covered 9620 students.
The programme has so far covered 51 schools from across the state. 10 students have been admitted in the current session for Aviation and Hotel management and 18 candidates already registered for the session 2012.
This career guidance and counseling programme is being marked by career talks, career conference career exhibition, career mela, distribution of career literature, individual counseling
Disclosing this to media persons here this afternoon, SCERT director Vipralhou Kesiezie said the career guidance programme would continue realizing a tremendous response from the students.
Kesiezie said that career guidance and counseling has been designed to help students understand about their strong and weak points. It is also to enable the students to take a realistic decision based on their abilities and also to make a realistic career preparation.
Further, SCERT also published 11 series booklet on career guidance and the same was distributed to the students free of cost. It may be recalled that SCERT Nagaland signed MoU with six professional /technical institution from across the country (Kolkata, Agra and Haryana) through the Gateway Career Consultancy, Dimapur to work together with SCERT in career guidance programmes to offer free career guidance services and career information to the students of Nagaland.
Five professional/technical institution signed the MoU included Flying Cats- The Complete Airhostess Training School, Kolkata, Heritage Institute of Hotel and Tourism, Agra, Institute of Hotel and Restaurants Managements, Kolkata, Global Retail School, Kolkata and VLCC –Institute of Beauty band Health Management, Kolkata.
The MoU aims to provide free career guidance and counseling services to the students of Nagaland, to provide job-oriented professional and technical courses, to provide accurate and authentic career information to students of Nagaland about various technical and professional course and to create a state level career information centre at SCERT, Nagaland.
SCERT Nagaland aims to establish a State Level Guidance Bureau as provide under RMSA project and create this bureau as one of the most resourceful centers in the state.
Other plans of SCERT on guidance and counseling series included; creation of a study centre for International Diploma in Guidance and Counseling course offered by NCERT, New Delhi through different study centres across the country, introduction of a 6 month certificate training course in guidance and counseling. The proposal for this was already submitted to the RMSA Nagaland for financial support to ensue that a least one female and one male teachers are trained as a school counselor and for all secondary schools in the state, one month certificate course in guidance and counseling for career masters, training of vocational teachers for secondary schools, development of books, training modules and career literatures for teachers and students.
“We have already compiled 60 careers available in the modern world of work. We are targeting to compile 100 careers into a reference book.”
Debasih Dutta from Cateway Career Consultancy and Zavise Rume from vocational guidance and counselling Cell, SCERT were also present at the press conference.



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