Does any parent ask, which stream or course his or her child wants to pursue? Only a spartan section is conscious enough to do this most important needful. The parents don’t understand that at the end of the day it is the child who will study. They are individuals with their own set of liking, disliking, strengths and weaknesses. Guidance is good but not impingement. What the parents should prioritise is whether the course chosen is as per the knack of child and whether he or she is devoting required time for it. One needs to persevere in his respectable field to stand the stiff competition.

Often a viable section of parents are biased that employability is much more in technical streams. Every course gives satisfactory dividend if pursued sincerely and with interest. Many parents still lack awareness about the innumerable varied courses and the lucrative professional scope, which constricts their choice. They have mental blockade for new and vocational courses even if their children exhibit flair for them. That with colossal change in the whole human lifestyle education has also undergone enormous change is what they must appreciate. Need-based courses are designed to prepare professionals to address evolved work-spheres.

Parents need to understand the pivotal contribution of aptitude in ones career and profession. Therefore, it is inevitable to test the aptitude of the student. The prospect of success in a particular course depends on how much interest the applicant takes. Interest emanates from innate penchant. Whether he or she is able to understand and endure when the course gets tougher testifies that the child is fairing well. In this respect, entrances and interviews play a decisive role to scan the student’s mettle. There is possibility that a student consistently getting good marks and taking interest in English classes has a knack for literature study or creative writing. To pressurise her to tread some other field is to be willfully blind.

There is an unreasonable rush for the science stream among the parents. Most of the parents think that they will be viewed in a diminished social light if their wards chose any other stream. There is an unspoken notion that opting science is a marker of high IQ and technical bent of mind. But one can not deny the rational that any course requires equal labour and intellect to fair well. It is found that parents get their children admitted to unrecognised science colleges with unreasonably hefty fees when the later fail to qualify in the screening tests of reputed colleges. Most of them end up with mediocre results losing eligibility for placements. Statistics of such students is thick. It would not be completely wrong to say that this is also a predominant reason for the high percentage of unemployed engineers.

It is truly welcoming news that in this session some of the high scoring students have opted for non-science streams. Change in the mindset is definitely in the offing. Education counselors can play a rectifier’s role and educate the parents as well as the students about parameters for choosing a course. This process can conduce to students being placed where they should be. The larger result is a skilled, innovative and seasoned national workforce.