Clubs and Committees

Our core aim at Munnar Catering College is to foster the holistic – intellectual, physical, emotional, and social development of our students.

In this 21^stcentury, the world is changing faster than ever before. The conventional education curriculum, which was developed in the early 20th Century, must be supplemented with a new kind of education and learning that prepares students to thrive and succeed in a rapidly shifting digital world.

Since the early 1980s, a variety of governmental, academic, non-profit, and corporate entities have conducted considerable research to identify key personal and academic skills and competencies they determined were needed for the current and next generation. These skills were called – “21^st Century Skills”

Each 21st Century skill is broken into one of three categories:

Learning skills
Literacy skills
Life skills

Learning skills (the four C’s) teaches students about the mental processes required to adapt and improve upon a modern work environment.

Critical thinking: Finding solutions to problems
Creativity: Thinking outside the box
Collaboration: Working with others
Communication: Talking to others

Literacy skills (IMT) focuses on how students can discern facts, publishing outlets, and the technology behind them. There’s a strong focus on determining trustworthy sources and factual information to separate it from the misinformation that floods the Internet.

Information literacy: Understanding facts, figures, statistics, and data
Media literacy: Understanding the methods and outlets in which information is published
Technology literacy: Understanding the machines that make the Information Age possible

Life skills (FLIPS) take a look at intangible elements of a student’s everyday life. These intangibles focus on both personal and professional qualities.

Flexibility: Deviating from plans as needed
Leadership: Motivating a team to accomplish a goal
Initiative: Starting projects, strategies, and plans on one’s own
Productivity: Maintaining efficiency in an age of distractions
Social skills: Meeting and networking with others for mutual benefit

Altogether, these categories cover all twelve 21st Century skills that contribute to a student’s future career. This is not an exhaustive checklist of career readiness skills — but they’re the career readiness skills that overlap with 21st Century skills.

Source: AES (Applied Education Systems)

Co-curricular activities, those activities which are undertaken along with academic studies, are the best way to give students the opportunity to practice and master these 21^st century skills. To that end, we have several clubs and committees representing a range of interests and fields that students can choose to join. Each activity that these clubs organize is structured in such a way that students get to showcase and learn these 21^stcentury skills.