Demand for vocational courses on the rise

Updated on: Saturday, July 03, 2010

Career counsellors are of the opinion now that several distance learning and vocational courses which offer good prospects can be taken up by students if they fail to make it to Delhi University.

Delhi University received 147,000 applications for 54,000 seats this year under various disciplines, which was much higher than 120,000 applications received for 49,000 seats last year.

Several off-beat courses hospitality management, jewellery designing, journalism, publishing and language courses are seeing the light of the day with admission process almost over in majority of the colleges and thousands of students not being able to make it to regular academic courses. Many students have already started approaching career counselors to know the best available option.

"I had opted for BCom (Honors) in Sri Ram College of Commerce. I have scored 66 per cent and the final cut-off was 87 per cent. Now I am planning to go for some vocational course," Rohit Kashyap said.

Similarly, Ashish Shukla, who had applied for English (Honors) and could not make it to any college, is planning to continue studies through distance learning. "I am exploring distance learning options and will take some part time job," he said.

"The students who could not get through admission in regular colleges and cannot even move out of the city can go for distance learning or get themselves enrolled in vocational courses," Tejender Pal Singh Gulati, a career counsellor at Time Educational and Immigration Consultants, told the sources.

Career counsellor Manju Kumar said, "Students can opt for various vocational courses like hotel management, travel and tourism and jewellery designing."

Demand for vocational courses on the rise

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