Silver Fern Education Consultants has always felt responsible for expanding avenues of global higher education to tier 2 and tier 3 cities across North India. Building on this sense of responsibility and our vision of empowering students from these cities, we conducted a series of HEC-style higher education fairs in Chandigarh, Patiala, Sangrur, Ludhiana and Amritsar in April 2025.
These fairs hosted more than 80 institutions of higher education, opening new avenues of credible information and learning about international programs for students from the above cities. For these cities, it was an opportunity like never before and it came absolutely free of cost to them. Students and parents in all these cities turned up in large numbers to get the right information from the universities’ representatives amid a changing global educational landscape.
Be it Patiala or Amritsar, the turnout for each of these multi-country fairs was more than 500 and students waited for their turn to meet universities with not just patience but great enthusiasm. It was indeed a big deal for students and parents to have access to top global institutions of the world in cities like Sangrur and Patiala and they surely made the most of it.
The success of these events made news across the entire region but for us, more than pride, it was the contentment of making a difference across cities that are often neglected in the limelight of the big cosmopolitan cities. These events were consistent with our relentless commitment to expand the right information on global education to smaller cities because we diligently believe that individuals here, too, should be entitled to equal opportunities as those in metropolitan cities.