Some students of my Zoology believe that every component of Zoology must be tagged with the word Environmental to be marketable in the job world. Some staff in Zoology, mostly trained in the old programme, support that motion without regards for pure science and faculty training, alluring that they do not have access to some jobs because they did not take certain courses.
I strongly believe that a school for a specific discipline trains few candidates to fit into an industry's profile advertised while a faculty trains a plethora of students who use their knowledge and skills to develop science, the community and themselves.
Thank you for highlighting this issue. Training courses are necessary for nourishing fresh graduate's career. It must be focused in today's curriculum.
Job-oriented course programs, designed through university-industry collaboration, are offered by Universities in several countries. This is a healthy practice. The rigidity of regulations in several universities, as in South Asian countries, discourages such desirable changes, but progressively this trend is changing.
Zoology is more of a basic science than a professional course that should be limited in scope. However, Job-oriented degrees are becoming increasing common in recent times because of internationalization policies of universities and competition for students. From my personal experience, undergraduate students with job-oriented zoology degrees tend to struggle when enrolled into higher degrees programs in zoology than their counterparts with degrees focusing on zoology as a basic science. Some universities incorporate participation in internship programs in their curricula to take care of the desire for industrial experience without compromising on the teaching of zoology as a basic science.
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