Education is the main element for the progress of a human being. It is the factor, which helps in the overall development of the human mind. It is not the only source for earning money, but is also the factor which helps in converting an uncivilised person to a civilised one. Education is defined as the medium, which is used to polish the qualities and the social practices of the human being. Qualification and degrees no doubt are the products of studies done in schools or colleges, but social behaviour and mannerisms are the main by- products of education, which are must to be learned by every individual.
Students these days are not only interested in degrees like engineering, medicine, communications, accountancy, teaching, designing, technology, or the degrees which require a lot of mugging and grasping techniques to excel. Creativity and originality are the keywords, which lead to a successful career these days. Students find those courses and careers more interesting and appealing, which allows them to prove their originality and provides them space to think and come out with best solutions of the era. Students are no more confined with the options of choosing those traditional forms of study, they have expanded there arenas to far more artistic and innovative ways.
The professions like signing and dancing have gained importance, with the increase in demand of more creative and talented workforce for the same. To fulfil the professional needs of the industry and make the students more competitive, instilled with all the required talent techniques, there are colleges and institutes in music and dance. In fact the majors in the field of arts have themselves opened institutes to produce more skilled singers and dancers.
Some of the colleges providing music courses are:
?Sardar Patel University, Vallabah Vidyanagar
?Adarsh Kala Mandir, Gwaliior
?Banaras Hindu University, Faculty of Performing arts,
?Bengal Music College University of Calcutta, Kolkata
?College of Fine Arts, Bangalore
?Dr. Bheem Rao Ambedkar University, Fcaculty of Arts, Agra
?Govt, College of Music, Chennai
?Indian Institute of Fine Arts Bangalore
?Kirorimal College, Delhi University
?India Kala Sangeet Wishvidyalya, Kawardha
?Institute of Music and Fine Arts, Jammu
?Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur
?Manipur University of Humanities and Social Arts
?University of Allahbad, Allahbad
Some of the colleges providing courses for dance in India are:
?Govt. College of Music and Dance, Hyderabad
?Indira Kala Sangit Vishwavidyalaya, Rajnandgaon
?S.J. Govt. Music and Dance College, Hyderabad
?Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
?Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
?Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune
?Visva-Bharati, Kolkata
?Shivaji University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
?MR Govt. College of Music and Dance, Vizianagram
?Govt. College of Music and Dance, Nizamabad
?Banaras Hindu University
The courses to these subjects are provided in the form of bachelors as well as masters degree, thereby facilitating the students with the graduation and the post graduation degrees. The admission to these courses can be taken after doing senior secondary education or some of the students start their course from the childhood itself, but in between they have to wait for some years to be capable of sitting for graduation examination, because of the minimum qualification of sitting for the examination, i.e. 10th pass. The bachelors’ course of for six years and the masters is for two years, in most of the colleges. Thus, we can say that a career in music and dance can be flourishing and lucrative at the same time. One needs to have a proper training in terms of practicality and professionalism of the work arena. If the student goes through a planned and procedural method of training, then it proves to be very productive for the student and for the industry as well. Because at the end, it’s these respective industries, which need to consume these talents. Also, educated and learned candidates are easy to polish than the rough and a totally uninformed person.
Gurleen Kaur writes on behalf of Shiksha.com.Shiksha is a portal that connects education seeker with education provider. Shiksha provides information about film and television courses and media courses