How The WorldGrad Is Easing Overseas Education Challenge Amidst Corona

Reading Time 5 minutes/Published on 17-04-2021

The WorldGrad is an edutech platform that offers students planning to study overseas, ease of access and an opportunity to get a global education in the times of Corona. How and why do they do it? Let’s find out.

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Launched in the times of the Corona, when the pandemic was at its peak, by Abhinav Mital, Pranav Saxena and Amit Garga, The WorldGrad aims to streamline the overseas education segment of India. The founding team of The WorldGrad has over 30 years of combined experience in the education sector. They met while working at the prestigious strategy consulting firm EY-Parthenon where Amit and Abhinav were founding team members and Partners of their Education consulting practice. In 2017, the trio started LINC Education that provides technology-enabled teaching services to personalize learning and improve student retention. They have successfully scaled LINC which currently supports 10,000 online enrollments each year across multiple partner universities in Australia.

Covid-19 brought the world to a point of uncertainty. It had a social, economic, and mental impact on people. Key segments like manufacturing, travel, hospitality, education, automotive have been massively affected by the onslaught of this virus. Education sectors have moved online to navigate the situation, but for how long? The higher education institutes, including universities and colleges, have been impacted the most, but where do the students aspiring to study abroad stand? UNESCO reported around 1.3 Billion students across the globe who could not attend college as of 23, March 2020, this figure was revised to 1.5 billion towards the late 2020. With the phase 2 of novel coronavirus expected to wreak havoc, students from tier 2 tier 3 cities of India are in a fix as to how to go about it.

The founding team of The WorldGrad wanted to address as many issues as they can with this sudden onslaught and yet build a viable product for the future. Some of the key challenges The WorldGrad addresses:

Money – Overseas education is considered expensive and in specific countries like Australia and UK it quite literally is. Come Covid-19, the spend on overseas education has become more of a liability than investment in the future of a child. The travel restrictions and uncertainty may have dampened the efforts of the students, but the hope to study abroad and get a global degree has not. To ease this, The WorldGrad gives a flexibility of first semester or one-year online option to students, this means they can start their studies online and finish it offline, when the campus is ready. Since these options are already filtered out on The WorldGrad platforms, students do not have to research for colleges and universities that provide these options.
Remote and Safe – Since the studies can be started online, this makes for an absolutely safe investment for the students who still want to take global degrees. This important factor also lets parents, who usually make the investment decisions in such matters, feel comfortable. The remote sessions are imparted in accordance with the global curriculum and do not deviate from the international standards.
Opportunity of on-campus study abroad experience – Immigration, networking, post-study visa and on campus experiences, these reasons make a parent and a student choose overseas education. This is especially true for India. With TheWorldGrad programs, students would always have this option open, and as soon as the travel restrictions are off, the students can easily gain this experience.

These challenges and the uncertainty of the current times can surely not predict how higher education will be impacted, but many of these can be addressed by platforms like The WorldGrad with certainty.

Author: Deepak Shukla