Monday, August 06, 2012

Tuition no longer exclusively for the wealthy in Asia...

On the second floor of a Singapore shopping center, five boys and two girls sat in a small room with the blinds drawn, a whiteboard the only object on the lime-green walls.

Jordan Goh, 12, who began receiving after-school tutoring two years ago, went up to the board to answer a math problem about time and distance, while Dr. Zhong Rui Wen, the founder of the Raffles EduHub, a tutoring center, gave pointers from the back of the room.

“This place, it has been helping me a lot,” said Jordan, who attends the center three afternoons a week. “It drills me on stuff that I don’t understand.”

Every week, about 150 children attend this center, just a handful of the many students taking private tutoring across Singapore, where attending extra lessons after school has become the norm.

 Once the domain of the elite, private tutoring has become widespread across Asia, according to a report released in July by the Asian Development Bank and the Comparative Education Research Center at the University of Hong Kong. Full story...

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