Students throng the Calcutta British Council?s bus during the roadshow organised by the body at Gulmohur High School. Picture by Bhola Prasad

Jamshedpur, Dec. 8: Gone are the days where universities offered traditional courses. Today, a passion for football does not have to end with analysing AC Milan and Liverpool on television.

Taking their interest a step further, one can travel to the United Kingdom to study football management ? a new course offered by the University of Liverpool.

This is just one among the hordes of unique courses presented today to city school students by officials of British Council, Calcutta, during an educational bus tour in four schools around the steel city.

From learning management fundas on and off the football field, to learning the nitty-gritty of several technological courses in English universities, hundreds of school students today gathered some valuable tips on studying at universities based overseas.

Brought to the steel city by the British Council after successful stints in Northeast, the unique roadshow highlighted the council?s work in the field of education and also stressed on the various links that have been developed through a series of interactions with the students.

?Last year, nearly 17,000 students from India left for the United Kingdom to pursue various courses,? said Debanjan Charabarti, head of literature, ELT and communications, East India, British Council division, Calcutta.