Make perfect cocktails & get full marks in school-CBSE boardstarting vocational courses food and beverageservicesXIIwill be issuedcertificates12/3/11

Make perfect cocktails & get full marks in school
Abhishek Choudhari, TNN | Mar 12, 2011, 04.20pm IST

(56 BHOG,WHICH MEANS 56 KIND OF "VYANJAN"..RECIPES AND DRINKS-SHARBAT,MOCKTAILS OR COCKTAILS ARE PART OF OUR INDIAN CULTURE AND TRADITION...WHETHER ONE CONSIDER IT A CLASSY VICES OR SHANO-SHAUKAT!!!

...BUT ONLY EVERYTHING IN LIMIT IS OK,OTHERWISE WILL BE IN PROBLEM WITH GENERATION OF DRUNKARDS!!!


...THOUGH PERSONALLY I DON'T BELIEVE IN BECOMING "DEVDAAS")

NAGPUR: A question during board exams asking for the recipe of the famous cocktail 'Bloody Mary' could be a dream question for most teenagers. Starting this academic session, this dream is all set to come true for students enrolled in the CBSE board for standard XI and XII. The board is starting vocational courses at the senior secondary level in food and beverage services, with a view to make students job ready. CBSE also hopes to start students off early if they wish to pursue higher education in a particular field.

The 'Beverage Service - vocational subject (Code No. 737)' seems to be a class that will have full attendance. Students passing out from standard XII will be issued certificates jointly by the CBSE and the National Council of Hotel Management and Catering Technology (NCHMCT).

The other proposed vocational courses are food production, mass media studies and media production, and geospatial technology. The board sent a letter to all schools on February 3 asking them to send proposals to start the courses.

CBSE also held a seminar in Chandigarh on February 27 and 28 where attending principals were briefed about the infrastructure requirements. Schools were told to prepare kitchen and restaurant labs to help students learn practically.

Tuli Public School is the first off the block from Nagpur city to apply for the vocational courses. Urvashi Yashroy, director of the school, said, "We have applied for three courses; food beverage, food production and mass media studies. We already have the infrastructure due our existing hotel management and computer animation colleges."

While Bhavans School (Civil Lines) said they were not aware of such courses being offered, Centre Point (Katol Road) school principal Kana Roy Chaudhari said, "At least for the 2011-12 session we are not considering it. These courses will require also require trained staff, apart from infrastructure. Our management will decide on this in due course of time."

A CBSE official, who did not wish to be named as he is not authorised to speak to the media, told TOI, "This is a move by the board to move from the academics-based to competency-based courses. The department handling this vocational course has already received 150 applications from schools. Even though the last date of March 5 has gone, we are still receiving applications."

The same official also confirmed the details of the course pattern. "It is a vocational course, but will be treated at par with other streams. Examinations and result declaration will happen simultaneously with the other streams. For the hospitality courses, we have a tie up with NCHMCT, for mass media we tied up with Subhash Ghai's company and for geospatial course Rolta India will provide free software to the schools."

CBSE had started this project on a pilot basis in selected schools across the country. CBSE officials said the 'overwhelming response' prompted the board to offer these courses in all schools from the coming academic session. Every student will have to take a total of six subjects in both standard XI and XII.