Edu fair shows new avenues to students

Students were exposed to a wide range of options to choose from various courses at the two-day fair, jointly organised by The Hans India and HMTV

Hyderabad: The SRR APEXE Educational Fair kick started on Saturday. The fair is meant to give platform for students to choose not only professional courses in the local colleges but also across the globe. Students who attended the fair in large numbers had a wide range of options to choose from various engineering courses, courses in medicine abroad, pharmacy courses, event management, jewellery making, fashion design and technology, business management, fashion photography and many more.

The two-day fair is jointly organised by The Hans India and HMTV powered by Marri Laxman Reddy Group Of Institutions with associated sponsors from Malla Reddy Group Of Institutions and St. Peter’s Engineering College. Addressing the students and parents after launching the fair at Kamma Sangham, Ameerpet, here on Saturday, The Hans India Editor Prof K Nageshwar said India had a demographic dividend with 54 per cent of population below the age of 35.

Educational services and products had a good demand in the Indian market as majority youth seek services to move up the career ladder, he added. Nageshwar said organising education fairs would create high awareness among the students and parents on various courses and colleges available. He stated that after globalization, India was becoming supplier of human resources to the world.

“India has produced large human resource than Europe. In Silicon Valley, second mother tongue is Telugu.” He further said due to demographic change, emergence of knowledge economy and globalisation, education vastly expanded in the country. “With the expansion, diversity of education has increased with various courses and many institutions coming up. Choosing the right course, college and career path has become a challenge for students and parents alike,” he stated.

HMTV editor P Venkatakrishna urged the students to look beyond engineering, medicine courses and colleges in the US. Education fairs gave opportunities for youth to choose the right career path, he added. SRR APEXE-Educational Services Director A Arvind said dreams of several students to pursue medicine courses in India were shattered as college managements had been charging fee ranging from Rs 50 lakh to Rs 1.5 crore.

“Everyone cannot afford huge fee. In order to help students to pursue medicine abroad, SRR APEXE was established 10 years ago. We do counselling, spot MBBS admissions to colleges in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Philippines, China and Nepal,” he added. Marri Educational Group of Intuitions founder chairman Marri Laxman Reddy appealed to students to choose nearby colleges thereby curtailing the commuting time.

Reddy urged the students and parents to pay a visit to colleges to ascertain the college details, infrastructure, facilities, laboratories, libraries and sport grounds. “Students should have helping nature, leadership qualities, physical fitness and academics to become successful in life.”

Marri Educational Group of Intuitions in-charge for training and placements Satheesh Kumar said educational fair gave an opportunity for colleges to showcase their performance in the academic aspects, placement, industry-academia interaction courses they offer.

The Hans India and HMTV executive director K Hanumantha Rao said with different colleges in place, the two-day education fair would give wide range of options for the students who completed their class XII standard.