Career guidance needed

THE EDITOR: To the Ministry of Education, the National Parent/Teacher Association, TUTTA, and all the other stakeholders in Education — the entire country. One of the possible causes of the escalating violence in schools could be that most students are not focussed — they have no sense of direction as to what will happen to them when they leave school. How many of them have been asked what they want to be when they grow up having completed school? Frustrated students will become violent and the devil finds work for idle hands and minds.

Career Guidance for students should start from primary school, say about Standard 3, and should be part of the school’s curriculum. Exposure to students about the different careers they can go into at an early age can keep them focussed and committed in life. There are so many areas of development in the different careers that none of them will have the time to be bored and frustrated. In Trinidad and Tobago alone there are so many different career institutions — UWI, NESC, MIC, TTIT, NIHERST to name some — for the academic and non-academic student. Every one of them can benefit once the education system, with a few changes, is managed properly

ELIZABETH ANN RAMPADARATH
New Grant