Tuition center

Tuition center also known as "Pusat Tuisyen" is a special term for private institution, it is especially abundant in Malaysia. Many school teachers earn their supplementary income through tuition centers. Some teachers 'advertise' their tuition classes and coaching those who attend their tuition classes how to spot and tackle examination questions. Some teachers could earn up to RM10,000 by giving private tuition and, because of this, were not giving their best in school. [ [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/9/12/nation/15399395&sec=nation Teachers warned against doing business without approval] ] [ [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/25/focus/17524711&sec=focus Do away with the tuition culture] ] [ [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/25/focus/17536493&sec=focus Everybody else is earning extra income] ] [ [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/23/focus/17519550&sec=focus Teachers reserving energy for tuition] ]

Home tuition is merely where the tutor travels to the client's home instead of doing the lessons at the tutor's home or in a tuition centre. Any tuition agency can provide tutors who do home visits. The advantage from a client's point of view is that they do not need to travel (possibly difficult or impossible if there are younger siblings) and parents generally feel safer in their own home.

The days of tuition centers as such may be numbered as online tuition (tuition over the internet becomes more popular). Students need not travel to a center (thus saving travel costs as well as site overheads), instead taking the lessons in their own home as part of a group which only 'meets' online.

Public's opinion

cquote|"I have come to know that in most schools these days, teachers are not in their classes most of the time, and also not in their schools. At first, I thought my son was lazy, but after checking it out I found that what he says is true. I even heard from a friend that a teacher in his daughter’s school said: “After all, your parents will send you to tuition classes, I don’t have to teach you here”." [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/10/8/focus/2215999&sec=focus]

cquote|"Over the years many children from a variety of schools have told me that often teachers are not present in the classrooms. The general impressing I get, from many children, is that 30% of the time they do not have a class teacher present. When I ask why, the answer is invariably the same – “teacher away at kursus” (courses), “teacher at meeting”, “teacher resting in teacher’s common room”. When I ask why the teacher is “resting”, the common answer from children is “she/he has to conserve energy for the tuition classes after school”. " [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/23/focus/17519550&sec=focus]

Web References

ee also

* Tuition
* College tuition
* Homeschooling
* Tuition agency
* Issues in Malaysian Education

External links

* [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/9/20/focus/15479068&sec=focus Tuition culture a sign of ailing system]
* [http://blog.thestar.com.my/permalink.asp?id=1499 Bloggers: Tuition is wasting time]
* [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/9/15/nation/15438911&sec=nation School duties first, not tuition]
* [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/9/16/focus/15434131&sec=focus Punish teachers who solicit tuition]
* [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/9/16/focus/15446574&sec=focus Time and money wasted on tuition]
* [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/9/8/nation/15366899&sec=nation Parents caught up in tuition, too]
* [http://www.anysubject.com/hiring-a-tutor.asp Free impartial advice for hiring a private tutor]

See also

*Education in Malaysia