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Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative careers.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

 

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Educational institutions undoubtedly play the most crucial role in shaping a student’s career. They must serve the roles of imparting proper education to its students along with serving as a guide/counselor guiding students towards proper career that “adheres to their interests”. Thus, the educational institutions must bolster encouraging their students to pursue those fields of study that actively suits the students’ interests.

Taking myself and my friends as an example, it’s not very uncommon for a student - as a fresher to an institution- to be unaware of the scope and prospects that his/her career-discipline has in the current market .Here, educational institutions can play the role as a guide/counselor by enlightening the students on the scope and prospect of various fields of study. This is because an institution ideally has an invaluable source of experienced professors, alumnis in diversified careers and placement cells which can help a student gain insight on how prospective his/her career is moving forward in the current job-market scenario. Thus, students can choose their fields of study evaluating both their interests and the “career prospects” in their field.

Also worth mentioning, the educational institution serves as a production-house of talented professionals in different walks of life who collectively are responsible to run the nation. To add to this, a nation for its holistic growth requires engineers, doctors, politicians, artists etc. It is required that an equilibrium is maintained among all the professions, instead of any particular set of professions getting saturated; thus, leaving other professions deficient in no of workforce. To put forth an apt example, according to latest media reports, there is huge deficiency of talented professionals in STEM branch in US which in-turn is affecting the growth of IT sector. Only if educational institutions puts in more effort in making its students aware on how much prospective the IT sector - in terms of number of jobs and opportunities-then in coming years we can surely expect to see the US IT sector flourishing with many professionals in STEM field.

However, one must not forget that when it comes to choosing career there is clear classification of people into two types-those who choose a study-discipline based solely on their interest and those who choose solely based on career prospects in terms of job prospects. Keeping this in mind, educational institutions should try to encourage students in choosing a particular field of study “only by enlightening them about the career prospects “ and “must not try to enforce any field of study upon them” .If institutions try to enforce any career discipline on students, it will only be producing quantity of students in any particular field and not quality.

To summarize, an educational institution must serve its role as a guide/counselor by encouraging students to select their field of studies by providing ample information on the career options available In that field .

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