Chizokho Vero
Kohima, September 10
Students and educated unemployed of Nagaland will soon be able to stay in touch with a wide range of career guidance and counseling programmes, with the signing of a memorandum of understanding in Kohima today. The memorandum was signed between Gateway Career Consultancy (GCC) and the State Council of Educational Research & Training (SCERT), Nagaland.
The primary objective of this partnership is to promote vocational guidance service for students and encourage them to plan their future careers realistically.
Commissioner & Secretary for School Education and SCERT Mhathung Kithan said the signing of the MoU would go a long way in helping students in career counseling and enable them to enter job markets.
Commissioner Kithan said the lack of career counseling is one factor many educated persons remain unemployed although job opportunities are available across the country. He said the MoU focusing on career guidance and counseling services assumes “very useful for the people of Nagaland.”
Gateway Career Consultancy represents five professional and technical institutes from Kolkata and Agra. It includes Flying Cats, airhostess training school, Global Retail School, Heritage Institute of Hotel & Tourism, VLCC- Institute of Beauty & Health Management and Institute of Hotel & Restaurant Management (IHRM).
As per the MoU, GCC will provide services to students of Nagaland in terms of career counseling, seminar, awareness of various job-oriented professional courses provided by the mentioned professionals institutes; visiting schools and colleges to motivate them to join professional courses according to their aptitude interest and qualifications, among others
The partnership is intended to explore and share resources for effective guidance and counseling services for the benefit of students in Nagaland.
According to the MoU made available to The Morung Express, GCC will work with SCERT through public-private-partnership to promote education and job-oriented professional courses in Nagaland. The GCC is to provide accurate and authentic information about the professional and technical institutes it represents, maintain transparency in providing career information, regularly update and provide the latest available information about professional and technical assistance and shall be responsible for any consequences arising out of the career information about the institutes provided by them.
GCC is also to work closely with the technical and professional institutes and ensure job placement for students on completion of their courses. GCC is directly responsible to coordinate between the professionals and technical institutes and SCERT and the prospective students who wish to join the institutes.
The GCC will charge no service fees from either the SCERT or prospective students that wish to join the institutes, the MoU said.
On the side of SCERT, it will organize various programmes on vocational and career guidance and counseling for students of Nagaland. The vocational guidance and counseling under the SCERT shall be responsible for coordinating and organizing various vocational guidance and career counseling programmes in the state. It shall provide infrastructure, materials and man-power resources with latest technology necessary for the partnership to work towards the promotion of vocational, technical and professional education.
The institutes are to act as guardians of the students during the course of study and ensure safety in times of danger and threat and inform parents in times of need or about their performance.
