School students taking tuition go up after pandemic: ASER 2022
The report pointed out that over the last decade, rural India has seen small but steady increases in the proportion of children in Classes 1 to 8 taking paid private tuition classes.
NEW DELHI: The proportion of students taking private tuition classes after school has increased by more than four percentage points over the pre-COVID levels across the country, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), 2022, released on Wednesday.
The report pointed out that over the last decade, rural India has seen small but steady increases in the proportion of children in Classes 1 to 8 taking paid private tuition classes.
“Between 2018 and 2022, this proportion increased further among students in both government and private schools. Nationally, the proportion of children in Classes 1 to 8 taking paid private tuition classes increased from 26.4 per cent in 2018 to 30.5 per cent in 2022. In Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand, the proportion… increased by eight percentage points or more over 2018 levels,” the report said.
ASER is a nationwide, citizen-led household survey that provides a snapshot of children’s schooling and learning in rural India. ASER 2022 is the first field-based “basic” nationwide ASER after a gap of four years. It comes at a time when children are back in school after an extended period of school closure.
“Tutoring seems to have been a tradition in several states such as West Bengal and Bihar, where the proportion of children going to private schools was low and nearly 70 per cent children were going to tutors. Large numbers of young people in villages earned a living by tutoring children in these states. It appears that in the post-pandemic period, the practice of private tutoring may spread and grow in other states as young educated people prepare for, and wait for jobs,” it said.
“It is entirely possible that this supplemental help in the form of tuition was successful in restricting the learning loss in these states… Tuition could also be behind the lower learning loss in math as compared to reading. Anecdotally, we know that tuition is used more for subjects like math and science rather than for reading,” it said.
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