Why more and more students in India are opting for private tuitions
8 years, 11 months ago

Why more and more students in India are opting for private tuitions

Hindustan Times  

India’s education system --- especially the primary and secondary levels --- is in a comatose state. A recent National Sample Survey Organisation report shows that thanks to the low quality of education, more and more students are relying on expensive private coaching and tuition. Read: ASER’S 2014 REPORT A recent National Sample Survey Organisation report shows that thanks to the low quality of education, more and more students are relying on expensive private coaching and tuition. COACHING CLASSES: PAY TO MEMORISE This burgeoning number of students in coaching classes is a reflection of the significant challenges India’s education system faces today. Ramachandran’s study ---- Why school teachers are demotivated and disheartened ---- explains this problem: “While the training programmes are intended to improve knowledge levels as well as skills ---- especially in child-centred teaching processes ---- teachers claim that these programmes add little value when the overall teaching environment, the examination system and other aspects of the school remain unchanged”.

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India’s coaching industry: Growth, challenges, and the need for regulation
1 month, 3 weeks ago

India’s coaching industry: Growth, challenges, and the need for regulation

The Hindu  

The Chairman of Veranda Learning, Suresh Kalpathi, is a man of few words, despite a vast vocabulary arising from the best of schooling, graduation from IIT-Madras and Masters from a U.S. university. Look beyond Veranda Learning, and you are looking at an ecosystem unique to India, in the form of coaching, training and upskilling outside the familiar environs of school …

How mentorship and coaching can help transform the Indian higher education system
2 months ago

How mentorship and coaching can help transform the Indian higher education system

The Hindu  

Education, often regarded as the foundation of societal progress, thrives not only on structured curricula but also on other types of guidance and support provided to learners and educators alike. Against this backdrop, it may be worthwhile to understand the relevance, challenges, and potential of mentorship and coaching in India’s education system, supplemented by global perspectives and evidence-based insights. According …

Challenge of school education is to maintain retention rates: Economic Survey
2 months ago

Challenge of school education is to maintain retention rates: Economic Survey

The Hindu  

The real challenge in school education is to maintain the retention rates for all classes, from primary to higher secondary levels, the Economic Survey 2024-25 said on Friday. The survey says that while Mission Ankur in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat and Bihar’s Mission Daksh aims to provide personalised mentoring for lagging students to achieve grade-level competencies by 2025, they heavily …

No thanks, sarkar
4 months, 3 weeks ago

No thanks, sarkar

Times of India  

Students need saving from the coaching industry. A govt version isn’t the innovation India needs Coaching classes are such a large part of Indian culture that it’s hard to believe lots of countries get on perfectly well without them. Second, govt-aided coaching won’t at all level the education playing field. NSS data indicates that urban households on average spend about …

Parents in Rajasthan want early coaching enrolment for their children, says study
7 months, 1 week ago

Parents in Rajasthan want early coaching enrolment for their children, says study

The Hindu  

A significant 64% of parents in Rajasthan want an early enrolment of their children in coaching institutes in the belief that it would improve their academic performance. The findings came amid the guidelines for regulation of coaching centres, issued by the State government’s Department of Higher Education earlier this year, and the draft Rajasthan Coaching Centre Bill, 2024, released in …

Examination coaching crisis: It’s a monster of our own creation
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Examination coaching crisis: It’s a monster of our own creation

Live Mint  

India’s coaching and tuition industry has ballooned into a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, and we are acting shocked as if its rise was unexpected. Let’s be honest, are we not being blasé when we push our children toward what we perceive as socially prestigious fields like engineering and medicine even if their true interests lie elsewhere? Education regulations in India have largely …

Coaching classes: Too big a trade to be left unregulated
8 months ago

Coaching classes: Too big a trade to be left unregulated

New Indian Express  

The mushrooming of coaching centres needs to be reined in. While the burgeoning coaching industry offers employment to lakhs of people, its unchecked growth has led to many mishaps that the education system can ill afford. The latest incident in Delhi, where three students died due to flooding of a ‘study circle’ located in a building’s basement is only the …

Who goes to Kota’s coaching classes and why | Data
1 year, 4 months ago

Who goes to Kota’s coaching classes and why | Data

The Hindu  

It is a sad comment on India’s education system and its employment scene that there are more and more coaching centres than colleges and universities nowadays. Some cities, such as Kota in Rajasthan, are in fact synonymous with their coaching centres, which are known to ensure that their students perform well in the various entrance examinations for professional courses. A …

India’s pressure-cooker education system
1 year, 6 months ago

India’s pressure-cooker education system

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 21, 2023 11:00 IST - 18 MINS READ In India, which has set its sights on the moon, aspirations can reach astral heights. Arun Kumar, a noted economist and retired professor, told Frontline: “As a top government functionary, the Vice President is duty-bound to defend government policies while ignoring the negativity present in the current situation, like …

We don’t need this education: Increasing number of student suicides in India is sending a clear message
1 year, 6 months ago

We don’t need this education: Increasing number of student suicides in India is sending a clear message

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 21, 2023 11:00 IST - 10 MINS READ When students who have spent more than a decade at school decide to end their life, the message is not all that difficult to decipher. The coaching industry contributes significantly to the city’s economy, and that is one reason why successive governments have shown little interest in regulating it. …

Ways in which the Indian education system can be strengthened
1 year, 11 months ago

Ways in which the Indian education system can be strengthened

The Hindu  

India is a country with a population of 1.3 billion and counting. Here is a look at some issues that plague the education system and what can be done to redress them: Limited funds and redistribution: The government at the provincial and national levels has to provide resources such as manpower, infrastructure and funds to cater to the country’s.educational needs …

Will Budget 2022 heal India's sagging education system?
3 years, 2 months ago

Will Budget 2022 heal India's sagging education system?

India Today  

India is one of the countries where school closures due to the pandemic were the longest in the world. In over 60 per cent of government primary schools in Uttar Pradesh, children were found sitting in multi-grade classrooms, possibly due to lack of space or teachers, according to the Annual Status of Education Report 2018. From 11.4 per cent of …

Delhi Govt. restarts free coaching for entrance exams
3 years, 5 months ago

Delhi Govt. restarts free coaching for entrance exams

The Hindu  

The Delhi Government has restarted a scheme under which students can get free coaching for various competitive exams at private coaching centres if the annual income of their families is less than ₹8 lakh. A total of 15,000 students have applied for Jai Bhim Mukhyamantri Pratibha Vikas Yojana, and all the available seats for the scheme have been filled, Social …

Busting myths and the double-speak on education | Opinion
4 years, 8 months ago

Busting myths and the double-speak on education | Opinion

Hindustan Times  

“If you’re gonna be two-faced, at least make one of them pretty,” Marilyn Monroe once said. A vibrant private school sector will deliver better outcomes, at a lower cost One of our myths is that education must only be delivered by the government if it is to serve the public good. Between 2010-11 and 2017-18, 24 million children have abandoned …

Are Indian schools spending enough on teacher training?
4 years, 10 months ago

Are Indian schools spending enough on teacher training?

India Today  

Education forms the foundation of an equitable society. Schools must also ensure he/she possesses a range of skills such as classroom management, school administration, and most importantly, child psychology. Therefore, the schools must re-envision the teacher training programmes and here are few ways of doing that: Firstly, the schools must conduct a rigorous and externally implemented Teacher Needs Assessment. It …

NEET Has Benefitted Only Students Who Spend Lakhs On Coaching Classes: Madras HC
5 years, 4 months ago

NEET Has Benefitted Only Students Who Spend Lakhs On Coaching Classes: Madras HC

Live Law  

Opining that NEET, instead of giving the expected good results, has benefited only students who spend lakhs of rupees on coaching classes and put rural students at a disadvantage, the Madras High Court on Monday advised the Centre, which framed the rules, to take note of it. The division bench, comprising Justices N Kirubakaran and P Velmurugan, stated this when …

Indian education system heavily dependent on private players, says Manish Sisodia
6 years, 5 months ago

Indian education system heavily dependent on private players, says Manish Sisodia

India Today  

Speaking at the Asian Summit on Education and Skills, Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia said that the biggest challenge for the Indian education system is its dependence on private players and deteriorating quality of the government schools. Read: Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia stresses on need to change exam pattern, teacher training in India Importance of teacher training: The training …

Education reforms: Getting children into classrooms is no longer enough
6 years, 8 months ago

Education reforms: Getting children into classrooms is no longer enough

Hindustan Times  

To achieve its full potential, it is crucial that India enacts education reforms to enhance human capital. Likewise, a simple analysis found that halving the pupil-teacher ratio in Rajasthan is expensive compared to other approaches, costing ₹17,368 per student, generating benefits to learning outcomes that, in an optimistic scenario, are worth five-times the costs. A trial in Andhra Pradesh cost …

Does coaching really play an important role in building a student's career?
6 years, 8 months ago

Does coaching really play an important role in building a student's career?

India Today  

Over the past few years, Indian education sector has seen the birth of a parallel education system within itself. Today, enrolling students in coaching has become a very common practice; given the fact that coaching provides a boost to the students' knowledge, understanding, and information, in addition to what they learn at school. Digitization in education As the traditional education …

Maharashtra Private Coaching Regulation Act, 2018: Owners of tuition centres claim it’s unfair
6 years, 9 months ago

Maharashtra Private Coaching Regulation Act, 2018: Owners of tuition centres claim it’s unfair

Op India  

The revised draft of the Maharashtra government’s Private Coaching Regulation Act, 2018 which is slated to be tabled during the winter session of the Assembly has irked many coaching classes owners. Ladika Ruke, Joint Secretary of the Maharashtra Class Owners’ Association said, “The definition of a coaching class is the classes having five or more students. As per norms, a …

Uttar Pradesh govt rejects Rahul Gandhi's claim of reducing education budget
7 years, 8 months ago

Uttar Pradesh govt rejects Rahul Gandhi's claim of reducing education budget

Firstpost  

Rejecting Rahul Gandhi’s claim that Uttar Pradesh that the government cut the education budget, the state government clarified that it had increased by 25 percent. Lucknow: Rejecting Rahul Gandhi’s suggestion that Uttar Pradesh should close down hospitals to save money after it reportedly cut the education budget, the state government on Sunday clarified budgetary allocation for education has been increased …

Do we really need coaching institutes? Students debate on pros and cons
8 years, 7 months ago

Do we really need coaching institutes? Students debate on pros and cons

India Today  

There have been endless debates on whether coaching Institutes are beneficial or not. Some credit these institutes for their success, while many believe that they solely pressurise students to make money. There is no better way to find out than to see what students have to say about them: Those in favour: Depends on sincerity of students Necessity for cracking …

Education on a Budget: More than fund allocation, increased attention can energise the education sector
9 years ago

Education on a Budget: More than fund allocation, increased attention can energise the education sector

Firstpost  

If the current budget and the indications are anything to go by, we have a good chance to aim for a turnaround in the education scenario in the country. There is always the question of how much more could have been done by way of budgetary allocations but this budget impresses with its interdisciplinary approach to impacting various pressure points …

Classroom realities: What is happening in Indian education after two decades of reforms
9 years, 8 months ago

Classroom realities: What is happening in Indian education after two decades of reforms

Live Mint  

The previous two decades have seen a massive push by the government to promote literacy with higher spending and new schemes such as the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. Education goes private Primary and higher education sectors saw the biggest increase in the number of students attending private institutions during this period. Calculations using NSSO data on Monthly Per Capita Expenditure show …

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