Subject: Introduction of Geospatial Technology, Food Production, Food & Beverage Services, Mass Media Studies and Media Production as Competency based vocational courses at Senior Secondary level.

As you are aware, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), keeping in view the acute shortage of trained professionals and development of employability skills among the students, has been offering a number of courses under vocational Education at Senior Secondary level. In recent years, the CBSE has started collaborating with various industries/ institutions for introducing competency based joint certification courses as per the present needs of society and the relevant industries. In pursuance to this policy of exploring the new domain of knowledge and skills that have bright employment prospects as well as career opportunities, the Board has introduced the following new Vocational courses at senior secondary level.

• Geospatial Technology.
• Food Production (Hospitality and Tourism)
• Food and Beverage Services( Hospitality and Tourism)
• Mass Media Studies and Media Production.

The aforesaid courses were introduced in few selected schools in class XI from the Academic Session 2010-11 on pilot basis. Based on the feedback received from the Pilot schools and on the basis of overwhelming response from the other independent schools, the Board has decided to open it to all affiliated schools in the country and abroad form the academic session 2011-12 for class-XI. The detailed objectives and the salient features of such courses are enclosed at Annexure-I to III. The schools that are interested in introducing those new courses in class-XI from the academic year 2011-12 may fill in the proforma enclosed at Annexure-IV and may forward to “ Sh. S.K. Jena, Asstt. Education Officer (Voc & Edusat), CBSE, Shiksha Sadan,17, Rouse Avenue, New Delhi-110002 on or before 5th March 2011 or Email to cbse.edusat@rediffmail.com copy to skjena.cbse@gmail.com The letter of willingness in Annexure – IV should reach by 5th March 2011 to enable the Board for processing the applications further.

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