The government’s guidelines on coaching centres will, at best, create confusion in the short term with no material change in the long run.
This week’s edition of Things Change is focused on education. And no, I will not talk about Byju’s. Promise. Now let’s begin.
Last week saw the release of two significant documents related to education in the country. One of them is the government’s Guidelines for Regulation of Coaching Center, which aims to create a standard framework to manage the unregulated growth of such centres. That it took the government around 70 years—the coaching classes phenomenon more or less started with Agrawal Classes in the 1950s—to formulate guidelines for the industry tells you a lot about the urgency of the …
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