Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed. Write a response in which you discuss to the extent you agree or disagree with the statement and explain the reason for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position. Educational institutions are to provide quality education, assess the students’ performances and thereby they recognize where they are lacking behind. Later on they take up the responsibility to guide them where they need to improve and what support can be provided by the institution. This is the actual role of any institution. Dissuading the students in the fields where they are unlikely to succeed is far from their responsibilities because any student’s actual capacity cannot be known just by the marks they score or their performance at assessments. So they cannot judge clearly whether the student can succeed or not. Secondly, Universities are nowadays conducting a lot of entrance exams and screening interviews where they actually judge if a student can succeed in the course or not. Consider if a student is rejected by one university he doesn’t totally stop trying in the career, he just moves to another university or try writing the exam again next year. So this shows the students’ perseverance and also even if the educational institutions dissuade by rejecting, the students are not going to heed to those. Finally in the dynamically changing world it is difficult to say which a lucrative career is. Any course you pursue may be at a boom when you join and by the time you complete the course the requirements may go down. Today the institutions are mainly based on ranking or grading system, with regular assessments and loads of works to be done at home. Many students get bored of these kinds of works. Mainly consider the creative students won’t have interest on doing monotonous assignments, they need more challenging works. When they don’t perform well on those tests, immediately they are graded low and considered not fit for the course. But actually those students might be more talented than the ‘A’ grade students. So in these cases, the institutions do not judge the actual talents of the student and this may lead them to misguide the students. Consider Thomas Alwa Edison, he was student who kept dreaming in the classes and his teacher thought he was abnormal. But then he invented the first bulb lighting the whole world. So it is clear that educational institutions should not dissuade students from any career because they might not have judged the student properly. Coming to the next point, even if the institutions dissuade a particular field considering it as unsuccessful for a student, say a person who trembles on seeing blood cannot become a doctor. But if the student has more perseverance he is not going to hear. He will try to break any hurdles to succeed in what he is interested. So, it is a waste of cost trying to dissuade them. That’s why I told about the entrance tests and interviews. Primarily the purpose of those tests was to find out if the student has ability to succeed in the course. But later on those tests itself became a grading tool. People scoring more get into good colleges. So even if a student scores low, he doesn’t leave the field, he just hunts where he could opportunity to do his wish. At last if he doesn’t get by his scores, he pays money. So there is no use of judging the student’s capability to proceed through a course and succeed. Finally the success of any career keeps changing. Few decades ago people must have thought banking is the most lucrative career. Anyone speaking about microprocessors and nanotechnology must have been considered a stupid. But now, it is the hottest field. Now institutions are guiding towards placements in MNCs and Masters in abroad. After a few decades this might change where all IT people are left with no job. So the institutions can’t determine which the most successful field is or which is unsuccessful. So it’s better they don’t take the responsibility of guiding the students. So I would like conclude that it is better for the institution to keep away from dissuading the students from pursuing any course which is unsuccessful because of the above stated reasons. Institutions cannot determine which would be a lucrative career or if it would be actually suitable for the student. And finally whatever they guide it’s the student’s decision whether to take it up or not. And in most of the cases they don’t.