Student life is full of charm and enjoy and everyone who is in practical life always seem to miss his/her student life. But the student life also has challenges and problems of its own. The students of developing countries like Pakistan have lots of problems, such as financial problems, poor transportation system, language barrier, incompetent teachers and many more.
One of the problems faced by students is that usually they are not free to choose study programmes of their own choice. Parents normally impose upon them a field of study which may not be suitable for the child or which he doesn’t feel comfortable with to study. This is a very common problem of our society. A student may want to be a journalist or a photographer but his parents may select engineering for him. So when he gets admission to the engineering college, he does not perform well. He then starts to feel that he is not fit for the field.
Parents should think about it and stop imposing study programmes on their children. They should only inform them about the scope and problems of every field, and let them choose a study programme.
Students, after passing their matriculation examination, face too much confusion about the selection of their further studies. They don’t know which study area is best for them. Most of the students don’t even know different fields of studies other than engineering and medical due to lack of study and career counselling. They get admission to these programmes and then don’t get good marks. That’s when they can’t get admission to medical or engineering colleges, and become upset thinking about their career.
We don’t have career counsellors in Pakistan other than a few institutions which hire career counsellors to guide their students. Students should have some basic knowledge about any profession before deciding to take it as their future profession. Students should be able to consult their teachers, parents and friends in this regard, particularly the persons that are already attached with the profession they are interested in.
Dear Sana,
I completely agree with your write up and loved every bit of it.
I feel that parents are not fully capable to inform their children about the scope and problems of every field. This is where the role of Career Counsellor comes in. Although, parents should give the deciding factor to their children as well afterall, it's the children who have to study that programme.
As for the comment that "We don’t have career counsellors in Pakistan", well, atleast I (Amin Saleem), a Qualified Career Counsellor with a PostGraduate in Career Counselling is available in Pakistan. But, i'm sorry to say that not many schools, colleges and universities are utilizing my services.
regards,
Regards,
Amin Saleem
PostGraduate in Careers Guidance (London, UK)
Former faculty: IBA (Karachi), IoBM-CBM, BIZTEK, PAF-KIET & ICMAP
Dear Amin Saleem ,
my master thesis topic is ''lack of career councling schools in pakistan''.
would u tell me plz, what are the variables of lack of career councling in pakistan,
dear mubashir i need some info may i have your email address?
We must promote career counselling keeping in view the interest and inbuilt natural talent of the concerned person. When you select a field based on your interest as well as on the basis of your inbuilt natural talent than irrespective of problems and/or scope of the field, you will excel in that.
According to my experiance; the parents and teachers are the most resposible for the falure of student. and no doubt its the student who is blammed for it… such a miserable condition….
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