KUWAIT: India Education Exhibition, offering a comprehensive range of professional and vocational courses as well as pre-college counseling

, opened to a large crowd of students and parents at the United Indian School auditorium in Abbasiya yesterday.

Opening the exhibition Dr. C.G. Suresh, Chairman, Association of Indian Professionals, said: "The community needs more of such academic exhibitions. Many of the parents and students are unaware of the multitude of higher educational opportunities available in our country. Exhibitions like India Education Exhibition provide potential students with an opportunity to directly interact with professionals from the exhibiting colleges to gain detailed information regarding admission, courses offered, location, various amenities and hostel facilities on offer, which they can then thoroughly evaluate with their parents before selecting an optimum college.

The exhibition, which highlights leading educational institutions from the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, is an opportunity for parents, looking at post-high school education opportunities for their children, to examine the wide variety of higher educational options available to them from these states. The exhibition provides prospective students with the unique chance to gain all relevant information about admission requirements to the various diploma, graduate, post-graduate and doctoral qualification as well as continuous learning programs on offer by dozens of professional colleges, under one-roof. The student can obtain updated college information, fee structure, eligibility criteria and guidance on courses that are in high-demand from a job perspective, from college professionals at the exhibition.

A particular aspect of the exhibition is the pre-college counseling being offered at the show by the Principal Consultant of Hari Om Academy of Higher Education and Research, P.S. Manoj Nambudiri. A veteran of student counseling in India and abroad, Nambudiri, emphasized the importance of students having a clear understanding of the courses they were selecting. "Taking up information sciences just because it is course in demand does not make any sense, especially if the student has no aptitude for mathematics. A proper evaluation of the student, to find out their aptitude, to assess their abilities and capabilities, is needed before you can guide the student in the proper path," said Nambudiri.

The reputed colleges and institutions exhibiting at the exhibition are further guaranteed through national accreditation bodies like the National Board of Accreditation (for Technical Education) and National Assessment and Accreditation Council (for Higher Education). Moreover, all the exhibiting colleges offer high quality education at competitive fee structures in comparison to colleges abroad and this is attested by the large number of foreign students who are enrolled in many of the institutions.

For instance, the Park College of Engineering Technology in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, has 110 students from China in addition to dozens of students from Yemen, Sri Lanka and other countries. Speaking on the sidelines of the exhibition, the CEO of Petra Education, Dr. P.T. Mathew, agreed with the comments made by Nambudiri, he added that, "Students, especially NRI students who are not in touch with the latest happenings on the college scene in India, are often confused by the amount of detail they have to assimilate before applying for admission. At Petra we provide the students with proper counseling about courses, colleges, eligibility criteria and other formalities involved in gaining admission to their college of admission. We also offer convenient college evaluation trips and packages that take care of all the aspects of joining and assimilating into a new college.

Dharani, the Chief Administrator of M.V.J. Medical College and Research Hospital, speaking about her campus stated that the medical college and the research hospital attached to it had recently been evaluated in a report prepared by an independent international review group. The group had thoroughly assessed the college faculty, the campus facility, the cutting edge medical equipment and technologies employed at the college and were of the opinion that it was of par excellence. The two day Indian Education Exhibition that runs till Monday, March 01 is organized by Response Events and Exhibitions, Kuwait in association with HariOm, Academy of Higher Education and Research, India. - Kuwait Times