Earn & Learn

The Poona Diocesan Educational Society's

Vidya Bhavan College Of Commerce

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The main objective of the scheme is to develop the student as a multifaceted personality with academic excellence and a commitment to an equal society. The Earn and Learn Scheme teaches the student that no work is big or small. It also develops a right aptitude to perform work. This is a vision of keeping our youth gainfully employed as well as to contribute to civil society. There is a shift in the way we see higher education and this will make higher education accessible and available to the poor, meritorious and the marginalized.

The scheme is at present being undertaken at the post-graduate level and the graduate level in the college. Under this scheme those students who are interested in joining are to fill the  necessary application form, which is then scrutinized by an appropriate committee. The students enrolled under the scheme are given the following types of work namely office work, technical work and field work. However when the distribution of work is given it is seen that all students get equal opportunity to get all different kinds of work and that each student gets eighty percent of technical work and twenty percent of fieldwork. Office work includes working at the Library or any other office of the institute. Technical work includes knowledge of computers, office machines such as photocopying etc. or even working at a telephone booth, while field work includes working in the garden, looking after newly planted trees, play grounds, cleanliness of the campus etc. Each student is expected to work for three hours daily.

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