{"id":129628,"date":"2021-08-28T20:27:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T14:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=129628"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T04:30:22","slug":"indias-tuition-pandemic-on-indias-mushrooming-ed-tech-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-tuition-pandemic-on-indias-mushrooming-ed-tech-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s tuition Pandemic (On India&#8217;s mushrooming ed-tech sector)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/education\/indias-tuition-pandemic\/articleshow\/85690019.cms\">Times of India<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Issues due to the rise of Edtech sector<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> With billions of dollars in capital and tech backing, Indian educational corporates are creating a situation of tuition pandemic.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>China\u2019s crackdown on edtech<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Recently, the Chinese government announced a crackdown on its booming educational tuition sector. Under its new policy,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>private tutoring businesses have to <strong>restructure as non-profit companies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are banned from listing on the stock market or raising foreign capital.<\/li>\n<li>They are prohibited from offering tutoring classes on weekends and school holidays.<\/li>\n<li>Parents and students are being encouraged to report schools and teachers who make extra income through private tutoring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>What is the Indian Scenario?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The <strong>overemphasis on tuition<\/strong> is an issue in India too. While the Chinese solution is not the best one, the underlying problem exists in India.<\/p>\n<p>We make children compete for exams that do not test true talent and operate like a lottery. This isn\u2019t a new issue. For instance, we already have the Kota factory phenomenon.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Why overemphasis on tuition is not good? <\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Sports, musical instruments, dramatics, art, elocutions, debates anything that doesn\u2019t feature in entrance tests or board exams is cut out.<\/li>\n<li>The time spent to score little extra marks can instead be used to <strong>learn a completely new skill<\/strong>, which would make one more employable and contribute more to the economy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuition takes away the level playing field.<\/strong> Many of these tuitions cost lakhs. Very smaller number of Indians can afford it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Suggestions\/Measures<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The solution does not lie in banning mega educational companies. It attacks supply of tuitions, but does nothing about the huge demand for it.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>One, we need to make a <strong>cultural shift.<\/strong> We must let our children learn other than engineering and medicine.<\/li>\n<li>Two, we also need <strong>more good colleges<\/strong>. Lack of reputable colleges gives way for new edtech startups. Incentivize good people to open colleges, grant prime land and create more world-class institutions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Take the pressure off<\/strong> the cutoffs and entrance exams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Better regulate<\/strong> the mushrooming educational startups. Many of these companies provide excellent services, such as making people job-ready, upgrading skill-sets or teaching different vocations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s massive crackdown is about how the tuition-obsession combined with tech can go too far. We need to fix this here before it is too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Times of India Relevance: Issues due to the rise of Edtech sector Synopsis: With billions of dollars in capital and tech backing, Indian educational corporates are creating a situation of tuition pandemic. China\u2019s crackdown on edtech Recently, the Chinese government announced a crackdown on its booming educational tuition sector. 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