India’s coaching industry: Growth, challenges, and the need for regulation
1 month, 2 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 or college. Prof. Vineet Pandey’s Sahitya Classes trains students for UGC NET, GATE, SET and other exams, Fortune Academy in Kerala is known for IAS coaching. Veranda Learning, which acquired Edureka, Chennai RACE and many other training brands including JK Shah Classes and LOGIC, prepares students for careers in Information Technology, IAS, CA, Banking, TNPSC, KPSC and SSC. To a time when students gathered at a sports stadium to hear him explain concepts in such a way even backbenchers could comprehend; to his company Think & Learn attracting investment from Indian and global PEs and scaling to a valuation of USD 22 billion; to acquiring top education brands in the U.S. which no Indian company had attempted till date.

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Coaching classes: Too big a trade to be left unregulated
7 months, 4 weeks 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 …

A dire Kota scenario calls for out-of-the-box solutions
1 year, 6 months ago

A dire Kota scenario calls for out-of-the-box solutions

Live Mint  

The news from Kota is grim. This is the coaching capital of India for students seeking admission to engineering and medical schools such as the Indian Institutes of Technology and All India Institutes of Medical Sciences. But these days, the coaching industry is more focused on preventing suicide than instilling advanced calculus or Newtonian mechanics. There are hundreds of coaching …

Robust mechanism in coaching pathway is the need of the hour
1 year, 8 months ago

Robust mechanism in coaching pathway is the need of the hour

The Hindu  

It’s closing in on that time in the quadrennial cycle when most sports administrators are bombarded with the eternal question, “How many medals do we expect?“ While not many will have the answer, it is quite apparent that for us to be perennially in the middle rung of the medal tally of any Games, the key lies in the hands …

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 …

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 …

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