Students take the "twin" road to fulfill dream of settling abroad

Deepkamal Kaur

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, October 8

As the trend of online education has picked up in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, numerous students are simultaneously doing two academic programmes – one during the day at a local college and the other one in the evening from a Canada-based college.

Though double load is proving to be too taxing and has disturbed their sleep cycle, yet the students are ready to burn the midnight oil literally to realise their dream of moving to Canada.

Dr Sucharita, Principal, Apeejay College of Fine Arts, said, “This trend has become common among final semester students. They have a degree programme, which will conclude next year and Canada is allowing students to study online due to the pandemic. Students do not want to miss this golden chance.”

Manbir Singh, Managing Director, CT Institutes, said, “It has definitely become a trend among students as they can now take two degrees simultaneously from India and abroad. Most of these students are in a hurry to move to Canada, where they can get a job only on the basis of Canadian education. While students continue to be enrolled with us, they have also taken admission in Canadian colleges.”

Nisha Kumari, who is pursuing BCom (final year) from a local college, said she had got enrolled for a course in digital marketing in Vancouver.

“I take online classes from my college during the day, but I have to remain awake in the night for my Canadian course. As a result, my sleep schedule has changed drastically. It gets extremely tough when time-bound assignments come from both the colleges, but somehow I am managing it for a bigger dream. I do not want to leave BCom midway as it will mean a waste of two years of my effort. Thankfully, my college teachers are cooperating whenever required.”