Tutors, private tuition and coaching: India

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Private coachings in India, state-wise ; Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, July 24, 2015

% of students attending private coaching, state-wise, 2014; Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, April 7, 2016

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7.1 cr students take coachings: NSSO

The Times of India, Apr 05 2016

7.1cr students take pvt tuitions: NSSO report Parallel

Subodh Varma

Arecent NSSO report has taken the veil off what is called the shadow education system -private coaching and tuition, outside and parallel to the mainstream education system. The number of students taking such coaching classes or tuitions is estimated at 7.1 crore, almost 26% of the total number of students in the country .Of these, 4.1 crore are boys and 3 crore are girls. The report estimates that about 11% to 12% of the total expenditure incurred by families goes for private coaching or tuitions. Contrary to expectation, poorer sections of society take recourse to pri vate coaching of kids practically as much as richer families, the report says. These details emerge from the NSSO report based on a survey of 66,000 households conducted in the first half of 2014.

However, NSSO estimates for populations have been known to vary from that of the Census. For example, Census 2011 counted 315 mil lion students as opposed to 273 million estimated by the NSSO. So, the number of students taking private coaching could well be higher than 7.1 crore. Over 89% of respondents said the main reason for going for private coaching was “augmenting basic education“. What they meant was that the schools were not up to the mark ­ at least as perceived by the parents and students ­ and hence they had to take supportive steps. Just four percent of the respondents said that private coaching was needed to prepare for exams for jobs or other educational institutes.

Among the poorest 20% of the rural population about 17% of students were taking coaching while this share rose to 25% for the richest fifth of the population. In urban areas, where coaching rates are generally higher, some 30% of students from the poorest fifth of the population went for coaching while the share was over 38 percent among the students from the richest 20%. This exhibits the widespread need felt for supplementary education.

At the state level, there was wide variation in the shares of students attending private coaching classes. The highest share was reported from Trip ura (81%) followed by West Bengal (78%). Expenditures on private coaching were also relatively high in these states while spending on course fees was on the lower side.

The survey found that students in govt. schools were spending more on private coaching with share such spend rising to 33% of the family's total spend on education when the kids were at the secondary stage. The flip side of the coin is that spending on education in private unaided institutions was 22 times that of government institutions