Click to play videoMumbai: Coaching classes are a dime-a-dozen all over India, but it doesn’t take much to be teacher at these classes- no specific qualification and no specific degree either.
Now the Maharashtra Coaching Class Association (MCOA) has proposed a compulsory eight-month certificate course for coaching class teachers.
“There is no degree required. We need to bring everyone to a uniform level,” says President, MCOA, Jagdish Walawalkar.
The association plans to start the course in Mumbai first for junior college coaching classes.
The course will be based on the B Ed course, compulsory for schoolteachers. And coaching classes have welcomed the move.
“We get 300-400 applications. It is very tough and now at least we will have some set standard,” says founder, Sreevidya Tutorials, Preeti Natarajan.
“It is a very good initiative in the part of the MCOA, This has helped coaching class teachers like us,” says a coaching class teacher, Vinod Singh.
But despite the positive response, the association says the plan will be hard to implement without the government's intervention.
There are over 10,000 coaching classes in Mumbai alone and almost every student attends one.
This may perhaps be the first step in trying to regularise an industry that is growing in leaps and bounds every year.
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