Healthcare and fashion designing are among the new professional courses in CBSE

Healthcare and fashion designing are among the new professional courses that the CBSE plans to introduce for classes XI and XII. The subjects will be launched with certification from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) for healthcare and National Institute of Fashion Design (NIFT) for the fashion design course. Further CBSE has planned to introduce other professional courses for and after Grade-12 on subjects including fashion and garment technology, heritage craft as well as visual and graphics art.The strategy has been appreciated as the it will help students gain practical skills and be capable of success in modern-day fields that are rapidly becoming popular. The basic idea behind introducing the courses is to prepare students, especially from the middle and lower-middle income groups, to meet the growing demand for young professionals in the growing industry.

CBSE has also collaborated with the National Stock Exchange for the joint certificate programme in financial market management. It has tied up with NASSCOM for Information Technology. Further introduction of the other vocational courses include subjects like web technology, biotechnology, multimedia and creative writing which are relevant with modern times.