India | Now, a college degree in vocational education – Times Of India

For years, India’s basic collegiate education had been segregated into three distinct academic islands: the masses pursued humanities, the ones with shining score cards took to the sciences and the rest who wanted to pick up the tools of trade, opted for commerce. Now students can venture into a fourth dimension: a bachelor’s in vocation education.

From the upcoming academic season, colleges across the country will offer a bachelor’s degree in vocation education, thus underpinning a stream that has always languished for the want of a formal degree. Sensing the gap in the system, the move to offer the BVoc is largely in response to the hungry local manufacturing industry’s requirement for top-grade workforce, and partly because several graduates from the existing traditional streams were jobless and deemed unemployable…

via Now, a college degree in vocational education – Times Of India.