Real experiences, country breakdowns, visa updates, and everything in between
For over 12 years, we've helped Kerala students succeed — from clearing IELTS and PTE, to finding the right university, to building a real career abroad. These blog articles are the real stories and honest guides behind that journey: MBBS and nursing pathways, country comparisons, visa updates, and the questions parents actually ask us in Kottayam — lessons that will shape what comes next.
Somewhere in Kerala right now, a student is refreshing their inbox, waiting for a CAS letter that was supposed to arrive weeks ago. Bags half-packed, a September start date that's already come and gone, and a growing, qu...
A student of mine left for New Zealand years ago to study something construction-related — quantity surveying, maybe, or construction management, possibly architecture. Honestly, I've never been entirely sure which, an...
The Second Application Almost Always Looks Different From the FirstA student sits across the table, visa refusal letter in hand, application already once denied. It's a scene we see more often than we'd like at IRS Study...
In July this year, a Korean tourist walked into a school in Fort Kochi to wait for a friend, and left it stunned. A student there struck up a conversation with her — in fluent Korean. The video went viral within days, ...
On the 19th of July, a good part of Kerala stayed up well past midnight for a football match being played in New Jersey. Spain and Argentina went the distance — goalless through ninety minutes, still goalless deep into...
In 2016, telling someone you were studying computer science meant something fairly specific: web development, maybe some database work, a reasonably safe bet on landing a job at one of the big IT services companies. It w...
Last year, over a dozen students from across Kerala packed their bags for Tirana, all of them headed for the same course: BSc Nursing. Not one or two students testing the waters — a genuine batch, the kind of number th...
In the early 1960s, West Germany's hospitals had a problem no one back home could fix. The country was rebuilding fast, its healthcare system expanding just as quickly, but German women — under the pull of an old socia...
There's a ceramic plate that's been sitting in my bookshelf for close to two decades now. Blue pottery, a little chipped at one edge, with the image of a university printed across its face — a souvenir a school friend ...
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