Private Tutoring : Helpful or not?

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1.0 INTRODUCTION

Nowadays, education is a very important tool that will determine individual productivity and economic growth in a country. Most of people in the world are always being occupied with education as this will ensure a better future for themselves. That is why, there are a number of people tend to go to private tutoring classes or sessions in order to obtain additional knowledge. Thus, private tutoring is defined as a fee-based parallel education sector that provides additional instruction to students enrolled in the public school system. This lead to the widespread of private tutoring phenomenon in many countries where they claimed that this kind of additional education is a helpful tool for their studying progression. Is it really that significant? Therefore, in order to acknowledge this statement, this research has an intention which to clarify either private tutoring is a helpful tool or unnecessary distraction that only lead to negative effects towards students.

2.0 BODY OF REPORT

2.1 Private tutoring gives positive impacts towards students.

The widespread phenomenon of private tutoring has been proved where 90% of students at certain level are taking or have recently taken private tutoring in almost all 22 developing and developed countries that had been surveyed. These include Romania,

Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Cambodia, United States, and the United

Kingdom. It is certainly showing that this kind of additional education is necessary and yet being helpful for students worldwide. This is because it is believed by many that private tutoring is different from a typical public school system and it improves students’ academic performance and human capital.

2.1.1 Offers less-...

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...lso be noted that education is a vital element for humankind. In a nutshell, they should decide the best thing for themselves either private tutoring can be really significant or maybe just a foe.

Works Cited

Dang, Hai-Anh H. and Rogers, F. Halsey, How to Interpret the Growing Phenomenon of Private Tutoring: Human Capital Deepening, Inequality Increasing, or Waste of Resources? (February 1, 2008). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, Vol. , pp. -, 2008. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1098628

Dang, Hai-Anh H. and Rogers, F. Halsey, The Growing Phenomenon of Private Tutoring: Does It Deepen Human Capital, Widen Inequalities, or Waste Resources? World Bank Res Obs (2008) 23(2): 161-200 Available at http://wbro.oxfordjournals.org/citmgr?gca=wbro;23/2/161

http://www.canberra.edu.au/centres/lifelong/attachments/pdf/private-expectations.pdf.

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