Finishing school (India)
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Finishing school is a supplementary training school popular in India
that attempts to compensate for the deficiencies of low-tier colleges by providing specialized vocational training in technical fields such as computer programming and information technology.
The recent boom in the Indian economy has further enhanced the need for such finishing schools. These IT finishing schools cover technical skills as well as communication and problem solving skills. The biggest advantage of these finishing schools is that these schools cut down the "deployable time" for a company.
Other finishing schools attempt to make up for deficiencies in the Indian secondary education
system with regards to math and science education and bring the student up to the level necessary for attending university and gaining admission. For instance, it is not uncommon for Indian students to spend an entire 1 to 2 years studying in a tutorial cram school
after secondary education to gain entrance into a top medical or engineering school.
Western countries are often flooded by extremely over-prepared and well-networked Indian students, to the point of putting their own students at a disadvantage to their own rule and merit based college entrance and scholarship award systems where cram schools are virtually unknown, particular in Engineering and Medicine, areas which the Indian cram school focus on.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
that attempts to compensate for the deficiencies of low-tier colleges by providing specialized vocational training in technical fields such as computer programming and information technology.
The recent boom in the Indian economy has further enhanced the need for such finishing schools. These IT finishing schools cover technical skills as well as communication and problem solving skills. The biggest advantage of these finishing schools is that these schools cut down the "deployable time" for a company.
Other finishing schools attempt to make up for deficiencies in the Indian secondary education
Secondary education
Secondary education is the stage of education following primary education. Secondary education includes the final stage of compulsory education and in many countries it is entirely compulsory. The next stage of education is usually college or university...
system with regards to math and science education and bring the student up to the level necessary for attending university and gaining admission. For instance, it is not uncommon for Indian students to spend an entire 1 to 2 years studying in a tutorial cram school
Cram school
Cram schools are specialized schools that train their students to meet particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities...
after secondary education to gain entrance into a top medical or engineering school.
Western countries are often flooded by extremely over-prepared and well-networked Indian students, to the point of putting their own students at a disadvantage to their own rule and merit based college entrance and scholarship award systems where cram schools are virtually unknown, particular in Engineering and Medicine, areas which the Indian cram school focus on.