Private Coaching centres–Bane or Boon
SRINAGAR: There is an entire world based on giving coaching and tuition for students for different programs. If one gets to wants to target a particular paper, there are tons of coaching centers in Kashmir that one can join. The student can crack an exam easily when taking training at the coaching center.
The answer is not whether one can or cannot, but the classes have more become such a part and parcel of the education system. That gives the confidence to the students to attend the exam. With such a great level of competition around and thousands of students sitting for these exams, so the preparation must be good, these coaching centers have become a necessity in today’s world.
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In general, coaching institutions of education is not accepted and approved by the society, particularly by the state like Jammu and Kashmir. But, inequality of opportunities and provisions for educational services contribute to inter-personal, inter-regional and inter-generational disparities of all forms. These perpetuate socio-economic disparities and hamper national development. Moreover, Kashmir’s long history, tradition and culture of imparting knowledge and training have put pious obligations on the duty conscious society for providing worthwhile education.
The socio-economic benefits over the entire span of working life accrue more to educated and trained persons and therefore, attempts are made by students and their parents to obtain good education at even high private costs. The demand for various types and levels of courses is much higher than available places/seats for learning in creditable institutions. To meet excess demands, coaching institutions have been established in almost every part of country, these institutions have received social support. A lack of effective mechanism to identify and discourage institutions that are offering coaching has created an environment for mushrooming of such institutions.
The promotion of coaching institutions in education is justified on social, economic and cultural grounds. The inability of the Government, due mainly to financial constraints, to create and strengthen infrastructure for meeting the growing demand for quality education is mainly responsible for the increase of these commercial activities in education. The educational infrastructure- the schools, teachers and other learning support service- indicate deficiencies in facilities to attract and retain students for quality teaching and learning. A large number of students, therefore, do not enroll for basic education and those who do so, a majority of them drop out before completing even elementary education.
IMPLICATION OF COACHING
School facilities are largely provided by the government- the centre, states and local bodies. A majority of students attend such schools; drop out before completing the secondary level. A major factor responsible for high dropout/failure rate is that the school environment is not conducive to teaching and learning due to such factors as teacher absenteeism, un-trained teacher, lack of classrooms and other teaching aids. As a result of these deficiencies, a large number of privately managed ‘teaching shops’ or tutorial schools have come into existence everywhere. These schools are run on commercial lines. A number of them assure high academic performance of students and adopt aggressive methods of publicity, which enable them to attract students from rich families who can pay high tuition fees and other school charges. There is, thus, rampant increase in commercial activities in education even at the level of education which the government is constitutionally obliged to provide.
Most students, especially those who attend government schools terminate their education on completion of 10+2 stages. A majority of them, therefore, need vocational preparedness to enter the world of work. A large proportion of students, therefore, seek support of private institutions, which provide on commercial basis vocational training and offer job-oriented courses.
A large number of students, who do not join school, or college as regular students, are allowed to appear as external/ non-collegiate students, degree level examinations. Many of them attend coaching centers, which charge high fees. correspondence course institutions have taken almost similar advantage. The Government’s failure to fulfill its mandatory obligations of making adequate provisions for quality education, commensurate with the requirements for quality teaching and learning, is chiefly responsible for encouraging commercial activities in education. As education is profitable, socially and economically, parents and their wards have little options. They are, therefore, easily exploited either by paying high un-economic costs of education or by foregoing quality education, which in any case create all forms of disparities.
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Problems in Tuition centres
There are negatives with these tuition centres, so you should take in charge to find the best coaching center. The classes might cause others to get confidence so the environment in the coaching center should be good. The amount of time that a student spends in such institutes.
Stunts, under-age and rash driving, drug addiction are some of the ills the mushroom growth of tuition centers in uptown Srinagar.
Bashir Ahmad, a shopkeeper dealing in poultry is worried about his child’s future. “I fear he will grow up witnessing such acts and develop same habits,” he said.
Parry Pora, Baghat an area in uptown locality of Srinagar has turned into a tuition hub where students from all over Kashmir come to study, even its not wrong to say that its’ also called Kota of Kashmir.
Thousands of students enroll themselves in these tuition centers to achieve their dream of becoming doctors and engineers.
Starting the first class at around 8:00 in the morning and ending at 6:00 in the evening. As during tuition hours young boys and girls are seen performing stunts on the road side risking not only their lives but also of passerby.
Mudasir, a bus driver on this route said, “I witness many children performing stunts, sometimes while driving the bus I feel unsafe because of them as I am afraid there could be an accident.”
The rash driving of these students have always troubled the local residents with some minor accidents occurring usually, while in past there was a major accident where a young student had lost her life, which is remembered as Romana Javed case.
Eve teasing is a common sight, initially what was associated with boys teasing girls has now reached the level gender equality where girls do the same with opposite gender.
The other major social issue is drug addiction among you boys and girls which seem to be increasing in that area, young boys and girls. Sometimes these tuition going students are seen lying under the influence of psychotropic substance lying unconscious on in the parks or road sides.
Even the deployment of female flying squad has proved useless as they have shut their eyes to the eve teasing. When on duty police men and women are busy in their talks, the young brigades of anarchist perform stunts in front of these laws enforcing flying squad.
Manzoor Ahmed Bhat, a shopkeeper dealing with recharge business, said “police needs to be strict as I don’t see law enforcing agencies interested in their work.”
No Control on tuition centres
The policy of government to restrict the coaching institutions is no where. These institutions help to increase the habit of tuition. Coaching institutions impart the knowledge not only for academic courses but also prepare students for the admission test in professional institutions. Naturally they charge heavily for their services. Because they hire best faculty from all over the country. But this is a faulty system. It seems as these institutions are made for rich persons or to exploit the poor parents. This system not only will give the necessary feedback to teacher but also encourage the students to attentive in the class room. It is require to overview all the education policy.
Partial Attitude of the Teachers
School teachers has the partial attitude towards those students who are taking tuitions’ from them. They have more interaction with such type of students and pay them extra attention in the class room. Even their partial attitudes reflect when they evaluate the answer sheet of examination. Such types of attitude of teacher psychological encourage the students for taking tuition from them. Although it is a black spot on the profession of a teacher but it is true that some time who are not taking tuition because the victim of violence mentally of physically made by a teacher and to save themselves from this violence, students have no alternative except opting the tuition.
The extent of socio-economic gains derived from education and the resource costs borne by stakeholders, namely the beneficiary students and service providers, widely differ for various levels and types of courses. The measurement of such benefit and costs are, however, fraught with many conceptual and measurement difficulties. The socio-economic benefits reaped by students over the entire span of working life are, therefore, accepted axiomatically. It is generally perceived that the cost of not acquiring new knowledge and skills are more than the cost of obtaining them. In fact, the costs of provision of educational services borne by private coaching institutions and students/parents, are, therefore, considered equal to or less than the expenditure incurred by the beneficiary students.
