Clear about pursuing a career abroad, college and even school students garnered a lot of information about courses and universities from New Zealand to Canada at The Hindu Education Plus International Education Fair 2011.
On Saturday, the beeline for the fair started as early as 9.45 a.m. with students and parents walking through the stalls gathering tips on admission process, visa procedures, cost of courses, in various universities across the world.
An electronics engineer, R. Praveen Kumar is working for an IT major. “I plan to study Masters in VLSI in a US university. The sessions conducted by the USIEF on procedures for applying and the talk on how to face the consular officer at the time of visa interview were very informative,” he said.
The seminar hall was overflowing as US and Canadian government representatives made presentations in the morning. A discussion with the SBI officials on education loans was very helpful, said Mr. Kumar.
A student of ECE in SSN College of Engineering, S. Sneha wants to pursue a Masters in VLSI or Wireless Systems in Germany. Already learning German, she was able to get contacts of five universities at the fair, not German though, offering her chosen subject.
Ramya, a student of M.Sc. Electronic Media at Anna University, is specific about joining any UK university for higher studies. Already registered with consultancy firms, she said she received guidance on media courses from London Metropolitan University and Birmingham City University that had put up stalls. “It is a good platform for students thinking of studying abroad,” she said.
Students like Rebecca said the representation of universities, especially from the United States, was less at the fair for which over 1,500 students registered.
D. Mohan Kumar, father of Sakthivel, a Plus 2 student waiting for the results, found the fair to be very informative and useful. “I want my son to pursue B.E. in Mechanical Engineering in Canada. Officials representing the Canadian universities answered all our queries explaining the process involved in detail. Now, we will have to take a decision on which university he will study.”
