RECENT TRENDS IN ENROLLMENT FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES IN ECONOMICS: A CASE STUDY OF AN ELITE INSTITUTION IN WEST BENGAL

Abstract

Recent trends in enrolment in Undergraduate Honours in Economics courses in the Colleges and Universities in West Bengal is no doubt frustrating- it has been shown a gradually decreasing trend about more or less last one decade. The main causes may be the most of the students has been seeking their job in the field of teaching in Higher Secondary School; the concerned authority of such job is Central School Service Commission. But vacancy of available job under Central School Service is not available in the Subject Economics, however that are available the subject like Bengali, English, Mathematics, History, Geography, Life Science etc.. So, after completing Master degree in Economics most of the students go to take admission in B.Ed., and after that they can able to get job as an Assistant Teacher in Work Education or Physical Education. On the other hand to entering in Colleges or Universities as post of Assistant Professor or equivalent posts for which the necessary condition is to qualify either NET or SET examination but the percentage of qualifying candidate of Such exam as a whole is very poor. But the jobs are not also available in there. In my present paper I have taken data from the Department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati University for last ten years for analysing the causes and consequences the recent trends in enrolment in student in Economics at Undergraduate level.