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Vastu Shastra is popularly known as ancient Indian architectural science. This science consists of certain principles that ensure a harmonious balance between man and nature thereby promoting happiness, health, wealth & prosperity. In todays age of internet and space, a large number of people follow Vaastu principles to support happiness in their lives. Now it is clearly visible how people consider it as a superstition rather than a practical ancient science which is relevant to the modern world in a limited capacity.

The origin of Vastu Shastra is known to happen thousands of years ago in India. In those times, people were highly dependent on various nature elements to meet their all their basic needs. Sun is the source of light & heat, wind gives cool breeze, rivers & rain were the major source of water, earth offered food & shelter and fire heat & protection. Thus the principles of the architectural science was generated during those days were purely based on the effects of the elements of nature. These principles were formulated when there was huge illiteracy in India. However with the passage of time, when people started understanding different modules of science, various modifications have made to Vastu Shastra and people realized the basis of this science.

It is also true that an ancient version of traditional Vastu Shastra may not be feasibly applicable to present conditions. This is why these modifications helped in modernizing this architectural science with an aim of bringing in happiness, wealth and prosperity in the lives of different people all over the world. Many people associate Vaastu with religion, but there is no point stating as it a science which basically set on the grounds of a building architecture and its effect on our lives.

In simple words, Vastu Shastra is a science of geography, direction, environment and physics. It is typically the science of placing the right settings in a manner that yields the maximum benefits. Vaastu delivers good results when the positive energies are found. For example, there are different directions studied before placing a particular object in your home. Each direction has some characteristics that must be considered in the application of Vaastu. There are eight directions namely, northeast, north, southeast, east, southwest, south, northwest and west.

The reason why vaastu is getting popular day by day is its effectiveness in improving the lives of people. The people who applied various Vastu techniques are found to be happier and satisfied in their lives.

Education sector is growing at a great pace and constantly adding to the growth of the country. The sector of education is always in the stage of development, due to adoption of new techniques and education forms from the foreign countries. The students are always in the search of new fields, which could add to their skills and explore their opportunities in one or the other productive ways. The main aim of getting educated for a student is to earn a respectable amount of salary and frame for himself a bright career route leading to prosperous future. The school and college education these days, are also aimed at the growth of the students. Many new career prospects are coming and grabbing the interest of a large number of students.

Actuarial sciences are one of those fields, which are slowly attracting students to opt it as their career option. Actuarial science is a field, which basically deals with the mathematical and statistical numbers, to further assess the various risk factors in the insurance and the finance sectors. Actuarial science is a word, which is mostly referred to as a field related to the insurance sector. Professionals of this field are called Actuaries, and they generally provide services in the health, life, general, retirement and many other benefit plans. The students aiming for the course in Actuarial science need to have maths as their subjects in the senior secondary examination. There are colleges in India, which provide graduation as well as post graduation courses in actuarial science. Some of the colleges in India, providing actuarial science courses, are:

Bishop Herber College, Tamil Nadu

The National Insurance Academy, Pune

Academy of Insurance Management, New Delhi

Birla Institute of Management Technology, New Delhi

Bharathisadan University, Tamil Nadu

Bajaj Capital Business School, Mumbai

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Mumbai

Institute of Certified Risk and Insurance Managers, Hyderabad

University of Kalyani, West Bengal

Behrampur University, Orissa

The entrance to these colleges is mainly through an entrance test, conducted by the colleges of India. Also, the students who want to practise actuarial sciences as their career need to pass through an examination conducted by the Actuarial Society of India. The students appearing for these exams need to have a strong maths background to deal efficiently with the figures and statistics. The students with degrees in course of actuarial science are believed to possess the power of farsightedness. They are said to be highly evaluative and calculative when it comes to figures and can give a better opinion in terms of the financial outcomes of major future events.

Also, to practise the profession of actuarial science, the person needs to become a student member of Actuarial Society of India. There are various conditions, which the student should satisfy for becoming a student of the ASI. Out of which, the majors being the student of 18 years of age and above and should have maths as his major subjects in the senior secondary and the graduation levels. The examination of the Actuarial Society of India is divided into four stages, which are as follows:

Core Technical Stage: Consists of eight exams, each of 100 marks, and clearing all the exams is compulsory

Core Application Stage: Here the students have two compulsory subjects to pass

Specialist Technical Stage: It has six subjects, out of which a student can choose any two, according to his interests.

Specialist Application Stage: This examination stage also has six subjects, out of which a student needs to clear any one.

The scope for a student doing course in Actuarial science is getting very bright with more and more people opting for the banking and insurance services. Also, with the introduction of insurance services in the healthcare and other prominent sectors, the demand of the actuaries is bound to rise

B.Sc (Home Science), a course generally associated with females, has a lot to offer to its students. But those who are not fully aware of what the course is actually all about feel that the course caters only for cooking, stitching and home making.

Now a student of home science has a world full of options. Quite unlike a student with B.Sc. Physics or computers who has only limited options, a Home Science graduate could try his or her luck in a number of industries like fashion technology, food industry, hospitality industry, NGOs and education sector.

Course Structure:-

A course in Home science is a holistic course that is aimed at all-round development of women.

The course structure of Home Science is basically designed by the Home Science Association of India in collaboration with University Grants Commission. Apart from the languages, the course generally concentrates on three core areas – human development, foods and dietetics and resource management. Further, each subject covers an array of sub-topics under its domain.

Subject like human development covers topics like psychology, physiology, pre and post-natal development and child welfare. Whereas, food and nutrition cover subjects like food science, biochemistry, dietetics and food service management under their domain.

And resource management, another subject of home science, covers a wide range of topics like textile science, apparel design, extension education, research and methodology, computer application, resource management, family economics, interior designing and microbiology.

Career options:-

When it comes to career, sky is the limit for home science students. These students can opt for careers in Foods & Nutrition, Human Development & Family studies, Resource Management & Consumer Sciences and Apparel & Textiles. Home science graduates can become dieticians in hospitals, diet consultants / counsellors in lifestyle clinics, freelance dieticians food demonstrators, scientists in research institutions, teaching faculty in universities, project leaders in developmental projects, nutrition experts in international organisations, consultants for child development programmes, programme officers for child welfare schemes, production managers in apparel industries, quality control inspectors, CAD professionals, interior designers and colour consultants. So, there are varied career options available to these students.
Besides that, a degree in Home Science also opens up vistas for self-employment. Other than that, a graduate in this subject could start their on school, crche, interior design and fashion boutiques or even set up an event management firm. Those who are looking to study further, the doors are open till Ph.D, apart from attempting competitive examinations like CAT, GMAT, IAS or NIFT.

Admission in home science is based on Intermediate marks. As the concern for lifestyle, health and nutrition is growing in our society, the importance of home science courses are also increasing. The initial misconception of home science as only a domestic science has faded away. These days, more and more institutes are starting courses in Home science in India. For example to improve the employability of the rural students, Punjab Agricultural University is planning to start a six-year degree course in home science. Similarly, the University of Delhi is also planning to restructure the home science courses to make them more relevant in the changing circumstances. It is anticipated that eventually, home science courses would draw attention from various other colleges and universities as well.

Though a course in home science can be pursued by students of social science, commerce or science backgrounds, the course is interdisciplinary in nature and all aspiring students need to learn basics of physics, chemistry and biology in the first year of their graduation. Therefore, there are some institutes that keep the course open only for students of science background.

Scope of Home Science Courses in India:-

After a student has completed a graduate degree in home science, he / she can either join various industries or carry on further studies. The employment opportunities for home science graduates are continuously and rapidly growing. Thus, one can easily take up a job in the production industry, tourism industry, service industry or teaching jobs, technical jobs, or sales jobs.

With their scientific approach and practical applicability, home science courses actually can contribute a lot not only in fulfilling the personal ambitions of students but also in betterment of family and community living in a diverse country like India.

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If you sit and analyze the working of nature and people around you, you will notice that everything starting from your breathing to your mobile phone is a product of science. While the field of biology covers all the living organisms on earth, physics, mathematics and chemistry take care of the rest. When it comes to technology especially, it is physics and mathematics working wonders and making their play, while chemistry provides them with a platform in the form of chemicals, minerals and elements. Technology is the modern derivative of science. Science was in turn derived from a Latin word ‘scientia’.

The History of science can be dated back to as far as the B.C or Before Christ period, where there existed great philosophers like Aristotle, Theophrastus and others. The major part of the ancient science period consisted of many personalities from Greece. It was considered to be the temple of knowledge. This trend slowly started subsiding and the concept of science started spreading. Many countries like India also had its fair share of philosophers and scientific inventions through the form of Aryabhatta and others. But, this was not advocated widely as the means of communication between the countries were not established.

The real scientific revolution took place only after the sixteenth century. Most of the modern day scientific theories were formed during this time. Be it theory of relativity by Albert Einstein, law of gravity by Sir Isaac Newton, Theory of evolution by Charles Darwin or the invention of electric bulb by Thomas Alva Edison – every one thing of this happened during the sixteenth century. These theories were what paved way for the modern day scientists. Without forefathers like these, modern day science would have taken several more years to have been as developed as found today.

Einstein is considered one of the greatest scientists of all time and he was the man of the 20th century with the publications of several of his papers on the theory of relativity, wave-particle duality and several other physics breakthroughs which were accepted only a little later because of the apprehensions of all the scientists of that time to digest several new concepts. Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

One of the greatest ever scientific discoveries which form the basis of the world we live in today came from the man called Thomas Alva Edison. It was the invention of the Electric Bulb. Edison worked hard on this invention that, he tried hundreds and hundreds of filaments before he came up with the tungsten filament. This bulb is still in use today even after more than hundreds of years in its original form without much change. As the filament has to be stable even under constant temperature of the Celsius of thousands of degrees, the problem of finding the right filament was a particularly tedious job. Science still continues to be the most fascinating field of mankind and keeps opening doors for the human civilization to grow and prosper. After all, the thirst to know is what separates us from other animals!