cram schools boom widens india's class divide - lcd projector

KOTA, India (Reuters)-
Five big ones.
Kerry campus, 10,000 students and State Universityof-the-
The art LCD projector in the classroom, Bansal Classes are bigger and easier than most schools in India.
But the agency is now a landmark in the desert city of Kota in Rajasthan, neither a school nor a university.
This is a $6 gem on the Crown of India's personal coaching industry.
4 billion enterprises with social gaps in drama.
Cram schools have become a magnet for attracting thousands of middle-class families, and in this country, 20 years of rapid economic growth has failed to improve the shortage of dysfunctional national education systems and excellent universities.
Such cram school tutors students to take competitive entrance exams at some of the top technical and medical colleges.
They do it by rote memorization.
In Bansal, hundreds of teenagers have received intensive training to solve complex multiple problems
Multiple choice questions in physics, chemistry, or mathematics.
Kota cram student Yash Raj Mishra lives in a small room without a TV and laptop and spends almost 16 hours a day in class, revising or processing test papers.
"Physics was my first and last girlfriend," Mishra said, leaning against the wall, which was covered with notes on sports.
"I felt sad and frustrated when my friend scored better than I did," 17-year-
He called his friends just to ask about their academic progress. Two-
The coach plans to spend $3,000 a year in brother.
$4,000, in addition to that, students have to pay for their regular school and spend at least $2,000 a year on accommodation.
This makes spending in a country with an annual per capita income of about $1,250 a small fortune for most people.
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Rupee points out, "Manoj Chauhan, a 20-year-old math tutor, said he could have joined a software company or a multinational company, but chose to teach in Columbia, where, many teachers pay more than $6,000 a month.
Such cram schools have exacerbated inequalities in the education system plagued by absentee teachers and high school drop-outs --
India's unemployment rate has fallen for a quarter and Indians are illiterate and lack the skills to match India's growing economic needs.
A global survey by ManpowerGroup, one of the world's largest human resources service providers, estimates that India's skilled labor shortage is 67%
The world's second worst.
A shortage of skills could weaken one of India's biggest economic advantages --
Demographic dividend.
60% of India
2 billion of the population under 35 years of age, the country has had the opportunity to receive a demographic dividend, which at the end of the 20 th century brought about a huge shift in East Asian economies.
The average age of Indians will be 29 in 2020, compared to 37 in China and the United States and 48 in Japan, which presents an opportunity to increase productivity and savings rates.
But if most of these young people are poorly educated and fall into a low state of education, India may never be aware of its dividend
Value work or belowemployed.
Every year, more than 50,000 students from all over the country sign up for Kota, many of whom are under pressure from their parents.
The riverside town has become the capital of many cities. billion-
The dollar coaching industry, thanks to the success of Bansal Classes, founded by a former engineer who held his first class across from his restaurant.
Part of the reason the city, which has a population of nearly 1 million, is thriving is its moderation, and it is an added benefit for parents to see the relative lack of distractions from students.
Despite the tens of thousands of teenagers living here, with the growth of the economy, few shopping centers and cinemas have appeared all over the country.
The goal of the cram school is to break the difficult exams set by top universities such as the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs)
Or All India Institute of Medicine (AIIMS)
, His degree can be a ticket to pay a check or work in a lifetime in the United States.
"Last year, 50 children committed suicide in Kota," said Vinod Kumar Bansal, founder of Bansal Classes . ".
"When a child realizes that he can't succeed, the guilt of spending his father's money on a coach can lead to the end of his life.
Bansal, who founded the school in the 1980 s, resigned from a nylon job
After being diagnosed with muscle atrophy, he became determined. it was his success that gave birth to his coaching career.
After successfully getting students into India's toughest university, the center became famous --
Many other institutions have been inspired by the success of Bansal.
It says on its website that 16,000 of students have been admitted to IITs, more than any other cram school.
In 2012, more than 500,000 students took the IIT entrance exam, and less than 10,000 students passed the IIT entrance exam, making it harder to enroll than to enter the Ivy League university in the United States.
Today, Bansal's school has become a thriving school with an annual income of nearly Rs 1 billion.
Despite a sharp slowdown in India's economic growth.
"In the long run, it must undermine confidence in the education system as a system of merit, where hard work and talent will be rewarded," United
Author of the Asian Development Bank's report on private coaches in Asia.
"Instead, reward those who can get out of the system and get test tips and tips.
Critics also argue that cram schools have brought false hopes to many students and parents, and that while candidates may not have a talent in engineering or medicine, there is hope for results.
"In fact, at a coaching academy, you are treated as a mouse," Ashutosh Banerjee said . " He fled Kota within a month after he was tired of cram school.
"The teachers have a good attitude and they yell at everyone and make fun of everyone.
"But for most students, the teachers are beyond reproach, they can be the mini-celebrities of the elder brother, and their photos are attached to the wall.
"On the street, students point at me or stare at me," said Xiao Han, a math tutor . " He has billboards and photos of him around the city.
"They made the video and uploaded it to YouTube.
"Seeing the potential of the Indian market, South Korean coach giant etoros invested 0. 3 billion rupees in building a store in Kota Kinabalu in 2011, focusing on video lectures and e-commercelearning.
"In terms of revenue, India will surpass South Korea," said Nitin Chaturvedi, head of operations at Etos.
"India has a large population and a good location.
Five times South Korea.
Coach companies are also booming in other cities.
FIITJEE, a household name
Become an engineering student with more than 60 franchises across the country.
Planned initial public offering (IPO)
In the next few months
"People chase us like anything," said R . "
Trikha FIITJEE education center.
"Because the school system didn't do their job well, the coach was actually there.
We are meeting this need and society should thank us.
"But the popularity of cram schools in India has made the national education system worse.
As private teachers, better wages attract the moonlight of school teachers, ignoring the poor students they were supposed to teach.
"This is prohibited, but law enforcement is another issue," said Anshu Vaish, secretary of the Ministry of Education . ".
"Usually, what teachers often do is that they don't teach in the classroom and they will let the students go home later to learn the same thing.
"The poor quality of teaching in the country has led to a generation of people, about two. thirds of 10-year-
According to Wilima Wadhwa of Delhi ASER, the elderly cannot do a simple division problem
Center for Educational Research.
The experience in poor schools may be bleak.
Teachers skip classes is common in most villages, and poverty forces families to pull their children out of school in advance to find a job.
Students from lower caste face bullying and discrimination from teachers and are sometimes forced to do some humble work, such as cleaning the school toilet, rather than taking classes.
The lack of good schools and universities means that the quality of an ordinary degree in India is so low that even students who manage to get a degree will find themselves not working.
Binod Khadria, professor of sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, said: "On average, we have only 25% of engineering graduates who are actually suitable to meet the requirements of the IT industry . ".
"So you can imagine the amount of waste.
The rest. . .
What do they do?