VOCATIONAL INTEREST OF STUDENTS IN RELATION TO SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT AND PERSONAL VALUES

One of the most important decisions high school students make is career choice. Choice in the discipline of
study defines further education and consequently what young people will do in the rest of their lives. It determines
their earning capacity and often their social and economic class as well. While many other countries allow students to
defer hard choices to later in their lives – mostly until the final year of college and sometimes even later – the choice
made by high school students in India is more rigid than it is elsewhere.