Adding another feather to its cap, Punjab Education Department,is going to launch ‘Punjab Career Portal’, the objective of which is to help students select their career path, the most difficult decision in a student’slife.
Prior to launching ‘Punjab Career Portal’, as part of ‘CapacityBuilding Programme’ of officials and teachers, the education Department hasstarted conducting virtual training sessions.
To begin with, a virtual training session to sensitiseDistrict Education Officers and Deputy District Education Officers was held onSaturday. The Education Secretary, Krishan Kumar, presided over. In hisinaugural address, he said that the education department had been working outthe modalities for helping the students to make the right career choices.
"The portal will prove of great help to the studentsas well as teachers. It would further strengthen the department’s initiatives toimprove the quality of education in government schools", said theEducation Secretary, while exhorting the officials and teachers to make theoptimum utilisation of the training sessions to build capacity to assiststudents in accessing the portal.
During the virtual training session, the experts,including, Ankit Bansal (Aasman Foundation), Lalita Sachdeva (Yuwaah, UNICEF),Tript Kaur, Programme Officer, YuWaah for Punjab, UNICEF, sensitised theofficials of the Education Department about the various modules of the ‘PunjabCareer Portal’ and gave valuable tips to ensure optimal use of the portal tohelp students to have an access to the educational and career options forenabling them to shape their future.
The portal will have information about a minimum of 450career options, 21,000 colleges and vocational institutes within the countryand abroad, 1,150 entrance exams and 1,200 scholarships.
“Special focus will be given on integrating thecurriculum with life skills. It would enable more than 8.50 lakh studentsbelonging to Class IX to XII studying in government schools to successfullymove up from school to higher education and to work. Each student would be given a unique id foraccessing the content on the website available in different languages”, said AnkitBansal of Aasman Foundation.
The project is being supported by UNICEF, NGO AasmanFoundfation and Tata Power. The web portal would help students make informeddecisions.
“The portal will have comprehensive information forstudents about career choices, entrance examination for differentcolleges\universities, vocational institutes and scholarships. For thoseinterested to move abroad for higher education, the portal will help in findingthe eligibility of colleges in different countries, scholarships andfellowships”, said Krishan Kumar.