Fine Design

Updated on: Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Students, parents and teachers got together at the Raffles Millennium International Design Institute, Kolkata campus, recently, to commemorate the school’s one-year anniversary in the city.

The highlight of the day was the lighting of diyas by students and teachers, followed by the cutting of a one-year birthday cake and a celebratory lunch. With 38 colleges in 14 countries, the institute has a growing presence throughout the world, one that is being felt increasingly in India with the Kolkata campus being the eighth in the country.

The college offers courses in Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Multimedia Design, Fashion Marketing and Management, Product Design, and Interior Design, either as a three-year BA degree or as a two-year Advanced Diploma course.

The school opened in July 2010, and now has four intakes - in January, April, July and October. The institute believes strongly in the global exchange of ideas, and employs 90 per cent of its staff from abroad, supported by local staff constituting the remaining 10 per cent.

Raffles is devoted to vocational, hands-on learning and hence all the teachers are practitioners of the trade, bringing with them their international practical experience. Furthermore, the Kolkata school has a dedicated international admissions office, which organises exchanges with colleges abroad, at present with both Singapore and Sydney, and supports those students taking advantage of an international transfer for their third year of study.

While the institute will remain a high-end school, and is committed to small class sizes to allow individual attention, college director, Edmund Lim is hopeful that the campus will see an expansion in student numbers in the coming years. However, he warns that the courses offered are demanding, and require a commitment to the subject.

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