For every profession there is a course here. And mind you, you are not qualified to even start your own business until you have the license to run your SBU (small business unit, read home business) , or that you must have done a short/long course and have a certificate to prove it. In the early days, I did not pay much attention to it, but now that I'm R&Ding it, I'm simply not happy. Too many restrictions or a very well-organised system - don't know which side to choose!
Starting with the education system, while the schooling is free, all that you might have saved, flows out as university fees. Another alternate to this situation is that most students begin working and then either go to college later or do a certificate course. As I'm told, having a university degree is great but even a certificate will do. As an international student the education fees are usually higher or sometime more than double the fees paid by UK nationals. Even in India, we do not charge such exorbitant fees to foreign students. Well, but India is a developing nation and UK is a developed nation.
I was surfing for some good news and came across India's first N-submarine which would be launched on July 26, and then the next thought that came to my mind was-Do we need it? Wasn't life in DD era much more comfortable? Wasn't the AIR enough, with its soft-spoken radio hosts talking normally? No mobile phones, no laptops...well. topic diversion again. Will mention it some other time.
Coming back to the UK, it is a common knowledge that most of the crimes (if any) are committed inside the house as most of the streets and all shops have CCTV! Even in my home, if I am planning on organising a small party for friends, then I better inform my neighbour politely about such an event, so that the law enforcers don't pay their visit just because the neighbour complained of disturbance. How I wish the Indian police too practised it in real instead on papers!
Right now, I'm too homesick to give a thought to any other things in life. I have become cranked, pessimist(eternal), and don't know what else these days... 'home' is the remedy.
Starting with the education system, while the schooling is free, all that you might have saved, flows out as university fees. Another alternate to this situation is that most students begin working and then either go to college later or do a certificate course. As I'm told, having a university degree is great but even a certificate will do. As an international student the education fees are usually higher or sometime more than double the fees paid by UK nationals. Even in India, we do not charge such exorbitant fees to foreign students. Well, but India is a developing nation and UK is a developed nation.
I was surfing for some good news and came across India's first N-submarine which would be launched on July 26, and then the next thought that came to my mind was-Do we need it? Wasn't life in DD era much more comfortable? Wasn't the AIR enough, with its soft-spoken radio hosts talking normally? No mobile phones, no laptops...well. topic diversion again. Will mention it some other time.
Coming back to the UK, it is a common knowledge that most of the crimes (if any) are committed inside the house as most of the streets and all shops have CCTV! Even in my home, if I am planning on organising a small party for friends, then I better inform my neighbour politely about such an event, so that the law enforcers don't pay their visit just because the neighbour complained of disturbance. How I wish the Indian police too practised it in real instead on papers!
Right now, I'm too homesick to give a thought to any other things in life. I have become cranked, pessimist(eternal), and don't know what else these days... 'home' is the remedy.
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