Counsellors, students grapple with uncertainty amid Covid-19 pandemic

With most universities moving courses online, students are weighing their options between foregoing the campus experience or taking a gap year and pursuing a short-term course or an internship

From the simpler days of fielding queries about which course and college to opt for, and explaining changes in student visa rules, career counsellors are finding themselves in a tough spot today. With the higher education plans of their young clientele derailed due to the pandemic, they now have to deal with questions they have never faced before — and to which there are no easy answers.

“Amid the uncertainties of the pandemic, it is pretty upsetting not to be able to put the students at ease and allay their fears,” said Namrata Pandey, founder, La Mentoraa, a Delhi-based college