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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...
,The Middle East and Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
. Many school teachers earn their supplementary income through tuition centers and agencies. Some teachers 'advertise' their tuition classes and coach those who attend their classes on how to tackle examination questions. Their focus is primarily rote learning. Some teachers earn up to RM10,000 or S$8,000 by giving private tuition and, because of this, perform less well at school. Notwithstanding, there is a huge, and still growing trend, among local parents who send their kids to tuition. Given the immense academic competition attributed to foreign scholars and the proliferating private-tuition trend parents have little choice but to engage tuition centers or opt for home tuition.
Tuitions are attended by 80% students in Malaysia,75% in Singapore,60% in The Middle East, and 77 % in India. Many students go for tuitions directly without even changing their school uniforms.This is a positive sign since many students who used to dislike School uniforms gets curbed of such unnecessary dislikes. Tuitions are getting increasingly popular in England as well.Many students are shy to admit that they go for tuitions, but this is a bad habit and tuitions are a good thing for many students in the world.
Home tuition is where the tutor travels to the client's home instead of doing the lessons in a tuition centre. Any tuition agency
Tuition agency
A tuition agency is a commercial organisation which specialises in introducing tutors to students requiring help in the academic area. Tuition agencies exist largely due to the problems parents and students face in finding a specialist who can help them with the study of one or more specific...
can provide tutors who do home visits. The advantage from a client's point of view is that they do not need to travel (possibly difficult or impossible if there are younger siblings) and parents generally feel safer in their own home.
The days of tuition centers as such may be numbered as online tuition becomes more popular. Students need not travel to a center (thus saving travel costs as well as site overheads), instead taking the lessons in their own home as part of a group which only 'meets' online.
However there might still be hope for tuition centers and agencies. According to the article, Tuition Nation, Tue, Jun 17, 2008, by The Straits Times
The Straits Times
The Straits Times is an English language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore currently owned by Singapore Press Holdings . It is the country's highest-selling paper, with a current daily circulation of nearly 400,000...
, tuition centers made an
annual turnover of about $110.6 million in 2005 and $105.9 million in 2004. MOE statistics show that there are currently 1,231 registered private schools, of which 425 are tuition centres.
Consequently, there has been a steady rise in the number of tuition centers and tuition agencies being set up every year.
See also
- In Home TutoringIn home tutoringIn Home Tutoring is a form of tutoring that occurs in the home. Tutoring is receiving guidance or instruction by a Tutor. Most often the tutoring relates to an academic subject or test preparation. This is in contrast to tutoring centers or tutoring provided through after school programs...
- College tuitionCollege tuitionThe term college tuition refers to fees that students have to pay to colleges in the United States. Pay increases in the U.S. have caused chronic controversy since shortly after World War II. Except for its military academies, the U.S. federal government does not directly support higher education...
- HomeschoolingHomeschoolingHomeschooling or homeschool is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school...
- Tuition agencyTuition agencyA tuition agency is a commercial organisation which specialises in introducing tutors to students requiring help in the academic area. Tuition agencies exist largely due to the problems parents and students face in finding a specialist who can help them with the study of one or more specific...
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