Monday, October 01, 2007

Websites to Watch-5 : Website on Higher Studies – Edex, The New Indian Express

A new portal, www.uniguru.com, has been launched to help students aspiring to study abroad.

Launched by Hotcourses, a UK-based publisher of education guides, the portal promise to reveal the real issues about the universities, which were not covered in the prospectus.

Primarily a website for Indian students, it would have information about management, engineering and medical courses offered by institutions in the USA, the UK, Singapore and Australia.

The site, which contains reviews from students already pursuing courses at various universities around the world, had allowed existing students to post their reviews, including video diaries and photographs.

The review postings includes details about accommodation, the quality of a course, the weather, city life, getting a visa, working in the UK and the cost of living.

The website offers peer-to-peer advice on over 100,000 courses at 808 institutions in UK, US, Singapore and Australia. The company also plans to launch a similar site for domestic universities in India next year.

Excerpt from Education Express, Supplement to The New Indian Express, Madurai, Sep.28, 2007

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