{"id":279518,"date":"2024-01-24T17:16:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T11:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=279518"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:16:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T11:46:17","slug":"regulating-coaching-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/regulating-coaching-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulating coaching centres"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source:<\/strong> This post has been created based on the article \u201cRegulating coaching centres\u201d<\/strong> published in \u201cBusiness Standard\u201d<\/strong> on 24th<\/sup> January 2024.<\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus Topic: <\/strong>GS Paper 2 Social Justice \u2013 Issues relating to Education.<\/p>\n

News:<\/strong> The article discusses the provisions in the guidelines for regulating coaching centres and the challenges in implementing them.<\/p>\n

Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The government recently laid out guidelines for coaching centres due to news of a growing number of student suicides and accusations of misleading claims in advertisements.<\/p>\n

What are the provisions in the guidelines for coaching centers?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  1. A coaching centre must have more than 50 students with a minimum age limit of 16 years.<\/li>\n
  2. All teachers must be graduates.<\/li>\n
  3. The centre must not make false promises.<\/li>\n
  4. Fees from students leaving a course halfway must be refunded.<\/li>\n
  5. Classes must not be held during regular school hours, and they should not exceed five hours a day.<\/li>\n
  6. Periodic sensitisation sessions for students with mental health professionals.<\/li>\n
  7. Assessment tests should remain confidential.<\/li>\n
  8. Basic requirements such as fire and building safety codes, medical treatment facilities and adequate ventilation and lighting in classrooms.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What are the challenges in regulating coaching centres?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    According to the author, these guidelines are unlikely to bring about any significant change due to the following reasons:<\/p>\n

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    1. Large Number of Coaching Centres:<\/strong> This will make it challenging to monitor standards with any degree of efficacy.<\/li>\n
    2. Lack of Clarity regarding Redressal Mechanism:<\/strong> The guidelines refer to a \u201ccompetent authority\u201d without specifying the nature of this body.<\/li>\n
    3. Jurisdictional Issues: <\/strong>The regulation of education at the 10+2 level falls within the jurisdiction of states and Union Territories. Monitoring standards could be different based on the local governments.<\/li>\n
    4. Small Amount as Penalty: <\/strong>The penalties are unlikely to act as a deterrent. It is just Rs. 25,000 for the first offence and Rs. 1 lakh for the second, and registration revocation for any subsequent breach.<\/li>\n
    5. Online Classes not Covered: <\/strong>The guidelines also do not appear to cover online classes, where violation of standards could be more rampant.<\/li>\n
    6. Structural Issues: <\/strong><\/li>\n
    7. Lack of Quality Institutions:<\/strong> A lack of quality engineering, management and medical institutes intensifies competition for a limited number of seats at IITs, IIMs, etc.<\/li>\n
    8. Deficiency in the Job Market:<\/strong> The low availability of employment, especially one that offers perks and benefits, leads to cut-throat competition.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Thus, changing this will require deeper economic reforms to expand the job market so that coaching centres gradually lose their current significance.<\/p>\n

      Question for practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Regulating coaching centres in India is the need of the hour but will be a huge challenge. Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Source: This post has been created based on the article \u201cRegulating coaching centres\u201d published in \u201cBusiness Standard\u201d on 24th January 2024. UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 Social Justice \u2013 Issues relating to Education. News: The article discusses the provisions in the guidelines for regulating coaching centres and the challenges in implementing them. Background: The… Continue reading Regulating coaching centres<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,163],"tags":[10503,212,232],"class_list":["post-279518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-social-justice","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-social-justice","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}