The U.S. educational portal beckons international students.

My Global Education- a website that immediately impressed me with its crystal clear, step-by-step navigation that also did not confuse me about the purpose of the website. My accolades to its web site designer.

It is an U.S. education portal offering various degree programs. The way it makes one decide what he wants to study based on his preferences is the highlight of this useful website for students.

Let me explain. If you are passionate about accounting jobs and you are clear about where you would like to work in this world, My Global Education then offers you various degree options and based on your basic choice, it then broadens the scope of equipping with you the right degree to fulfill your career options.

Please visit the website right now and you will know why I am all praise for it. In addition, please spread the word.

Significant opportunities to serve our Lord.

It is because of such universities and colleges that still offer courses on Christianity, religion and spirituality, we see old tradition still intact and not yet being wiped away by the modern world’s changing values.

I was asked to visit the web site of Colorado Christian University and browse their course on Adult and Graduate studies. The course is a specialized one that offers classes conveniently during evening and on weekends.

I have a friend, a true Christian and he ha written a few books on Christianity. He told me once that the number of people who study to become Fathers in the church is dwindling and there is a big demand supply gap in this employment sector.

Earning a degree from CCU can be advantageous for those who would like additional opportunities for career advancement.

“CCU education prepare students for positions of significant leadership in the church, business, education, government, and many other strategic disciplines, it also gives students significant opportunities to serve our Lord”-CCU president

Free access to essays database for students.

Contemporary students-aren't they all very lucky to be living i a high tech world? As a students, I used to write essays on my own as there was not a thing called the Internet at that time.

I know it is still very early for the exams time but I thought I would help out those students who, like me, are always in a state of preparedness.

Students, don't disturb your parents and teachers anymore when you want top class essays

Go to AllFreeEssays – a huge database of more than 50,000 essays. Yes, one can also browse through hundreds of term papers.

Thousands of free video tutorials for students.

We belong to the information age. And that too, we want the information fast and clear.
Who is interested in old fashioned guides and tutorials.

Video tutorials are the best tutors now. The clarity offered by video tutorials can not be compared.

WatchKnow is the latest resource for video tutorials. Students and teachers community across the globe throng "Watch Now" for its quality content and diverse subjects that include the most sought after mathematics and science.

Here is a sample video of my subject-Mathematics.

A directory of U.S. college courses.

Though this blog post is late for students in India to apply for the course of their choice, it might at least be helpful for them to pass on the information and definitely useful for the the students who pass out in the next academic year.

I would request students who happen to read this blog post to pass on the information to their fellow students and also to their school authorities.


Courseopedia is a directory of various educational courses in various colleges in the U.S. The database is huge with listings from private tuitions also.

The search facility offers us to search by keywords as well as by Zip code. Also, one can search for courses based on their topic of interest such as languages, I.T, Humanities, Social Sciences and Vocational.

The website Courseopedia is a simple website but has received a few awards. The website is a 'must bookmark' for every school in the world.

The scholars of south Madras.

There was a time I used to live with Aristotle. No other author the history has ever known had affected me so much philosophically. I remember his famous quote:
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." I believe this should be the fundamental premise on which every teacher should pursue his/her mission of educating children.

My friend Mr.Kasturirangan, who is working in "The Hindu', the leading daily newspaper in India, gave me a copy of "Scholar', a supplementary edition of "The Hindu".

As an academician, I love to keep myself updated in the field of education. The "Scholar' made me sit up. I have assumed that I know a lot of things about various schools. When I read "The Scholar", it was obvious that I am lagging behind on my knowledge.

For the first time, I came to know about so many extraordinary schools that are functioning in and around Madras, the side of which I know little about.

The magazine has introduced to the parents of Madras, so many well performing schools in the southern suburbs of Madras that include BOAZ public school, Bharathi Vidyalaya Senior Secondary School and Tagore Matriculation School.

Another unique feature of the "Scholar' that caught my attention is the number of special schools that are dedicated to children with myriad disabilities.
* Chrysalis school for children with Autism
* Vatsalaya learning center for children with specific learning difficulties

There are 33 special schools listed in the 'Scholar'-a real noteworthy effort of the team behind 'Scholar' that has also recognized the high performers in the recently concluded school final exams.
I liked a couple of headlines too:

* "Bagful of issues" that addressed the burden of carrying huge bags loaded with books, notes, stationeries, food, water and many other paraphernalia.
*” Work hard but play harder” dealt with students' inability to find time to play.

Generally schools in Tamilnadu tend to be identified with one religion that I am not an advocate of. Photos of religious leaders are used to lure parents that belong to that particular region is still a camouflage. I really don't feel the necessity for such practices.

Oh, well, opinion differs-right?

Overall, the 'Scholar' is a colorful issue loaded with very useful information to the parents; ultimately that alone matters, not the articles and messages of school heads and professional journalists.

People search for information and the Internet is yet to be used to its optimum by schools in India. It is the only the medium of newspapers, students and parents depend on to gain insight.

Well done "Scholar". I thank Zigma marketing India and Sandhya Sridhar Synergies for their combined effort for the excellent content. I have asked a few of my ex-colleagues to read the 'Scholar. I am sure it will be useful to them too.

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Easy to use language learning software.

I didn’t know people are interested in learning foreign languages still. I assumed the craze for other languages subsided long back. It was in the year 2001, when my son wanted to learn Japanese though I counseled him to learn Spanish. Even my husband chipped in his support and showed his knowledge of a few Spanish words. He belonged to the age of good old western movies and thus developed a liking for Spanish language, Spanish food and even Spanish women! (How dare?)

So, when a few weeks earlier one of students showed me a few audio teaching aids that contained Spanish language software, I was surprised but was happy too that people sustained interest in foreign languages. Spanish is the second most spoken language in the Untied States and the official language of over 21 nations.

My student boasted of her newly developed knowledge by throwing in a few trivia and here is one that amused me.

"Basque (native name: euskara) is the language spoken by the Basque people who inhabit the Pyrenees in North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France."

My student informed other students of the class about Transparent.com, a website dedicated to selling language learning software. They sell audio CDs. Language learning suites for more than 100 languages. (No my native language was not among the 100) (Smile)

Every language learning software teaches one, the pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary of the language under study. Their language teaching aids are used by top universities across the world, Foreign Service Institutes and Defense department.

Fashion Schools in the U.S.

The transformation was complete. I could not take my eyes off the bride. And the proud costume designer was all humility. She looked so young.

The wedding reception was hall was crowded with guests and I identified quite a few VIPs that included a famous woman entrepreneur, two film directors and a number of film stars. The bride was my ex student and she was getting married to a software engineer working in Los Angeles.

The bride finally introduced the costume designer to the guests. The immediately became the star of attraction. She is a graduate from a leading fashion school in the U.S.

Though she is running a high profile fashion designing studio, she came to help her bride friend as the occasion demanded her skill.

The designer gave a brief introduction to fashion-schools.org, how it helped her to join the best fashion school and how the school has turned her into a pro. She narrated with fond memories about her education and training at the International Academy of Design and Technology, Detroit.

I think she has inspired quite a few youth at the wedding reception.

Information on Culinary Schools in U.S.A

The legend goes like this: the chef of a billionaire film star was drawing more salary than his PRO. Some people might raise their eyebrows but knowledgeable persons and high socialites know this to be true as they too may be paying a king’s ransom to their kitchen head.

In the floor above our house lives a pastry chef that exhibits his talents in 5 star hotels only has rented a separate garage to park his four luxury cars. He once was talking to my son and fed his ideas of making him a chef but my son preferred computer processors to food processors.

This pastry king was a graduate of California Culinary Academy and has worked in luxury liners, as a personal chef for a film star before coming back to India.

If by chance, you are motivated by reading this blog post and set your eyes to become a world class chef, please go to culinary-schools.us, a directory of leading culinary schools in the U.S.

Or, if you would like to specialize in cakes and bakes, there are 28 featured culinary academies listed by Culinary Schools. You can also look for them by location of your preference. Read reviews of schools before you decide to apply.

Apart from information on education, you can also get a fair of idea of career opportunities. In summary, Culinary Schools USA is a great resource for students leaving school, unemployed persons, house wives and prospective employers of hospitality industry staff.

Excellent resource for aspiring nurses.

While people decide on their career only after the age 22 or so, some decide much earlier due to family circumstances. I know of a girl student of mine, who wanted to attend a top notch nursing school in the U.S. and she was so serious about her desire that she volunteered in a local hospital nearby for more than 8 months.

Her parents were against her goal but this girl had her foot firmly down. I would not say she had the basic qualities to become a nurse but the doctors at the hospital she was volunteering had different opinion.

Seeing her determination, they groomed her initially to some extant and helped her to search for the right nursing school through nursing-school.org, the best of resources for aspiring nurses.

It is a web site that helps you to search for nursing schools by location, by degree and by career.

I am yet to hear from her after she went to the U.S. three years before.