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IT courses Down Under a draw at education fair

Chandigarh, Sept 7: Nearly 1,000 aspirants today visited the Australian Education Exhibition 99 held in the city to offer information on ...

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Chandigarh, Sept 7: Nearly 1,000 aspirants today visited the Australian Education Exhibition 99 held in the city to offer information on various undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programms offered by eight different universities and their allied institutes in Australia.

The admission enquiries today were mostly directed at courses relating to Information Technology as opposed to business and hospitality related courses in the recent past, Henry Ledlie, Country Manager of IDP Education Australia Limited the organiser of the exhibition told Newsline: quot;The demand for IT courses has overtaken all other courses.

On the other hand, while the number of visitors at the exhibition this time grew by over 200, the enquiries for management and business courses remained the same, Melinda Bate, Marketing Manager Universal Education Centre, stated. quot;I want to pursue a 24-month programme in IT at the Deakin University,8221; said Sumit Kumar, an Economics graduate, quot;because I hear there are more jobs for IT graduates than business or economics specialists.8221;

quot;More people this time are seeking information about IT and even basic engineering courses than management,8221; said John Duncan of the Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology. Shweta Gupta, a Fine Arts professional, who acquired skills in multimedia in the city, stated she wanted to hone her skills further in the area of IT quot; to be able to make use of technology in my field,8221; she stated.

Interestingly, there were a number of queries from local students with agricultural background, who are seeking admission to courses in agricultural and food sciences at the University of Western Sydney. As Shailesh, a Hissar resident, put it: quot;Their technologies are far more advanced while we produce a lot.8221;

 

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