How Steering is about family first—for students’ careers, college, subjects, and aspirations

The family Students’ career choices and the family When students get into a college and the whole family supports it, the family dynamics are different. When they study something against the parents’ wishes, it impacts everyone at home. When a student grows from grade six to seven, the family is also growing. The child is merely progressing for the grades …

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A few under-discussed career options for students in India

Naming? Students might see light in these career options There are no mainstream careers or preferred careers—a student’s choice for studying commerce or soil or music or fish have the same merit, and their dreams are equally important for the world. In some sections or communities or even in the families or extended families, the students’ career choices and their …

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How students select their colleges—a study by Pravin Chavan, Masuma Mehta

Colleges How students make college selection decisions This post shares some thoughts from a study—Uncovering Students’ Higher Education Institutions Selection: An Investigation Using Factor Analysis and Cluster Analysis. The paper was published by Pravin Chavan, Global Business School and Research Centre, Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, and Masuma Mehta, School of Management, Avantika University, Ujjain (link to the study). Knowing …

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