Author: Editorial Desk
India is witnessing an unprecedented surge of its students opting for international students. Researchers claim that every year, over 8 lakh students travel to foreign countries for higher studies and spend around $28 billion every year. While it takes a lot of planning on the academic domain, finance planning also plays a major role. Devising your financial plans, both for funding your studies and funding yourself while living there are totally different things. While taking an education loan might sustain you in doing your course, there’s also expenditures that have to be met while you live in a foreign country.…
Education loans provided by banks in India have different variants. There are ‘study in India’ loans, ‘study abroad’ loans and then there are loans that are given to students who get admitted to certain universities or institutions that have direct tie up with banks. The basic criteria of any of these would be that you can avail an education loan up to 7.5 lakhs without collateral provided wherein this amount would be covered under the regime scheme and any amount more than that would require a collateral. What Is A Collateral? Collateral is any valuable asset pledged as security for…
English Language Tests & Qualifications International applicants for English-taught programmes are required to submit documentation of their English competence as part of their applications. This guarantees that students possess the English language proficiency needed to comprehend academic writing, produce scholarly writing, and effectively interact with their supervisor. Here is an overview of the four most popular English proficiency tests: TOEFL, IELTS, CAE and CPE. TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) The most well-known and widely utilized English proficiency test is probably the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). It is one of the two exams that…
For our audience, can you very briefly explain what Schoolnet actually is? Schoolnet is a company that’s been there for almost 25 years, dedicated for the purpose, as we say, for democratizing education, employability, and employment. ‘The three E’s agenda’ is what we call it. We have been talking of India’s demographic dividend which can actually become a disaster if the children are not properly educated, if they do not have the necessary employable skills, and if there are not enough jobs in the market. So, Schoolnet as an organization is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4…
The fundamental idea of requisite knowledge is constantly changing. The key skill today is not to memorize a mammoth text but to use the information that is readily available at our fingertips purposefully and effectively. Today’s children are expected to adopt multi-purpose skills which they can transfer to many professions. These are called transferable skills. Here are some of the transferable skills that a child needs to be equipped with whether they are to be found efficient in the 21st century. Communication At a time when people are trying to be right every time, this skill is overlooked. It is…
Kids these days have access to everything at their fingertips. Swipe down and you have details about everything under the sun. They can interact with both friends and strangers through various digital platforms and can use different applications that might be inappropriate for them, depending on their age and maturity level. Monitoring your child’s access to media is an immediate need and the best way to do this is to experience the media yourself. Look up the applications in mobile phones and educate yourself what actions these applications do. Some parents choose to monitor their child’s online activities very closely…
The mass media are divided into two vast categories: print media and electronic media. Even though the role of electronic media is expanding, print media’s gravity is persistent from the beginning. Print media has been delivering many crucial responsibilities in all fields of learning especially in education for the past five centuries. They provide abundant reading materials, in a way advancing educational opportunities and fostering literacy to a significant extent. Newspapers, magazines and books comprise the three most important representatives of print media. They are widely used in classrooms and their daily activities since these can be easily accessed and…
Coming from a very traditional background to opening a school in your native place which was a very remote village of Haryana to making it this successful- how would you describe your own journey? When I started this school in 1986, there was no other educational institution in Ellenabad . I didn’t think about the profit I’d gain or the success of this school, I just started it. There was no option of looking back because I wanted to educate the children in my native place. My journey was about honesty and hard work. I wake up every day at…
Given below is the list of the top 10 boarding/ residential schools in Kerala. St. Thomas Residential School, Thiruvananthapuram The Mar Thoma Church Educational Society (MTCES) founded St. Thomas Central School, a famous coeducational institution, in November 1990. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi, is the school’s parent organization. Every chance is offered to students to show distinction in both extracurricular and curricular activities. They instill kindness, sensitivity, and integrity in their kids. The institution helps students get ready for the CBSE’s All India Senior School Certificate Examination and All India Secondary School Examination. The School employs…
Given below is the list of the top 10 boarding/ residential schools in India. 1. The Doon School, Dehradun The Doon School has gained an iconic position in India after being named the country’s top legacy boarding school for four straight years (2007–2010) in the Education World – C for India’s Most Respected Schools Survey. The Doon School (TDS) served as the foundation for some of the nation’s most well-known political, administrative, business, and media figures. It was founded in 1935 as an organic Indian public school that took inspiration from renowned British boarding schools like Marlborough, Harrow, Eton, and…