Guide 4 Next
Guide4Next – Career Guidance Programme for Students
Guide4Next is career guidance programme designed to empower school students with the knowledge, confidence, and skills needed to make informed decisions about their academic and professional futures. Unlike one-time awareness sessions, Guide4Next is a structured 10-month school engagement programme delivered directly on school campuses.
Our experienced mentors visit partner schools every month to conduct interactive, activity-based career guidance sessions, ensuring continuous learning and long-term impact. The programme helps students discover their interests, understand their strengths, explore diverse career opportunities, learn about higher education pathways, develop essential life and employability skills, and make well-informed career choices. Through discussions, practical activities, assessments, mentoring, and real-world career insights, students receive consistent guidance throughout the academic year.
At Aagaz, we believe that meaningful career guidance is a journey, not a one-day event. By building a sustained relationship with schools and students over ten months, Guide4Next equips young learners with the clarity, confidence, and direction they need to successfully navigate their educational and career aspirations.
In India, a large number of students fail to access the benefits of government and private educational schemes such as scholarships, fellowships, and the Right to Education Act (RTE) due to lack of awareness, financial barriers, and absence of proper career guidance. According to the ASER Report 2023, more than 60% of rural students drop out before reaching higher education, with lack of guidance and economic support being one of the major reasons.
To address this gap, Aagaz EdTech Foundation launched the Guide4Next Project, an initiative designed to ensure that accurate information about educational opportunities reaches students in government schools, low-income private schools, and remote areas. The project not only spreads awareness about available schemes but also conducts Career Guidance Programmes and Counselling Sessions, enabling students to make informed decisions about their future.
So far, Aagaz has successfully organized 50+ sessions across schools, impacting more than 5,000 students. The model focuses on delivering career guidance sessions directly in schools, where students receive information about scholarships, fellowships, and different academic pathways. Interested students are then invited to the Aagaz Learning Centre for in-depth career counselling and personalized guidance.
Through Guide4Next, Aagaz is bridging the information and opportunity gap, empowering students from underserved communities to access better educational and career opportunities.
