In some countries,
at secondary at high school, there may be two or three streams of studies,
academic or vocational. What are the advantages of this to the students and the
society of putting students at the two streams at the age of 15?
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| Ielts Essay - Streaming Students |
Nowadays, higher education entails streaming students into
academic or vocational subjects. Despite being questioned for its validity and
effectivity in the current context, this strategy has been continued since several
reasons can be cited in support this format of formal tuition at high or
secondary level.
The policy of streaming the pupils, at the age of 15, into
vocational or academic area of studies, as per their abilities and inclinations
carries multiple advantages. This helps the growing minds to clearly set their
objectives and pursue them dedicatedly. As they have fewer subjects to explore
and study, the pupils can focus on those completely. This does not only save
them time but also protects them from extra burden they might have to bear while
studying subjects of little consequence to the knowhow of domains the pupils
are pursuing.
On the top of that, strategy of grouping students pursuing
similar subjects offers certain inbuilt advantages. Like minded pupils pursuing
homogenous syllabus tend to learn faster, and the class work progresses at a
fairly brisk pace. Besides this, the young learners can also gauge their
accomplishments in contrast to their classmates clearly and concretely, this
often results in a healthy competition which ultimately is interpreted into
excellent academic results.
Furthermore, this system can prove to be highly advantageous
for the society too: the economy of a country can quickly harness the talents
of young professionals and academicians, in form of their contributions to the
economic productivity. These professionals, in their own domains, can bring
around other benefits too, e.g. these professionals do not only save money,
otherwise spent on training them, but also train others.
To conclude, I feel that pushing students into specific
domain study at a young age can prove to be highly counterproductive.
