25 February 2007
Education Fair Draws Good Crowd
The two-day Education U.K. exhibition at Taj Coromandel brought in scores of students.
They rushed to the stalls, manned by representatives from 62 educational institutions, after the registration process. Representatives guided the students through the maze of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, briefed them about admission procedures and other requirements for studying in the U.K.
The representatives gave away pamphlets, brochures and CD-ROMs, and collected contact information of students at the exhibition.
Academic heads and British Council officials had a reason to offer about the swell of crowds: In the last few years they have seen an annual 18 percent increase in the number of students going from India to study in the U.K. For the current academic year, the British Deputy High Commission for south India issued more than 6,100 students visas, a 22 percent increase over 2005-06.
This year, the figure could go further up if one went by the tremendous response the fair had in the first few hours of Sunday afternoon.