EduGroomers Blog: Study Abroad

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Study Abroad - How to achieve success?

Pursuing an educational program abroad can be very demanding. Staying away from home in a foreign land and adapting to that country’s culture can be difficult. However, there is much at stake considering the fact that foreign education is expensive. Here are a few tips on how to achieve success in foreign education-

Choose the right educational consultant: Your journey to a foreign institution begins from an educational consultant. These consultants provide all the necessary information required to pursue an education program abroad.

Do plenty of research on universities: Students who wish to pursue education in a foreign nation are furnished with plenty of options. However, in case you are appearing for a global examination to gain admission to a university, make sure you do enough research on the university you want to join and the programs offered there. In addition, see to it that the country has no immigration issues.

Select the right program: Selecting the right educational program is a crucial part of foreign education. As overseas education is expensive, you would not like to take up a program that would fetch nothing in the long run. It is a good option to choose the field that offers plenty of opportunity even in your home country.

Use your resources well: Make the best of your resources. Universities abroad have a very different culture. Therefore, it is essential to take help of your professors during the course and get good grades.

Make good friends: Friends can help you cheer up and help you cope up in case you are missing your family and friends back home. Friends in foreign lands also help you to accustom yourself with the new culture of the place, as well as help you in studies where group work is required.

Anuj Jain

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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Affordable education options in India

In spite of India’s rich cultural heritage where Goddess Saraswati, the Hindu deity of learning is worshipped, education still remains unaffordable to a majority of the population. Despite having attained independence in 1947, the social gap between the rich and the poor has only widened. Affordable education has remained a dream for most Indians particularly in rural areas. This is indeed a very sad situation even though the Indian constitutional framework regards secondary education a fundamental right.

However, things have been changing and government’s measures to make education affordable are reaping good results. Government schools are revamping their infrastructure and other educational facilities making it under the reach of the poor. Subsidized tuition fee are a part of this plan. Schools run by NGOs have also been providing affordable primary and secondary education to students. On the other hand, central schools affiliated to CBSE have been offering education facilities at relatively low cost. Most of the State-affiliated (SSC) schools also provide education at lower prices compared to their counterparts in ICSE and IGCSE schools.

Though Higher education has become more expensive, there are also affordable options, thanks to education academies that allow students to study at home while pursuing their graduate programs through distance education. As foreign education is getting popular, academies also assist students who wish to join postgraduate programs abroad. Specific packages have been designed for such students to support their accommodation and educational requirements at low prices. On the other hand, major banks in India have been providing education loans at low interest rates so as to promote education and bring it under the reach of the common man.