Abstract
In the wake of higher education experiencing massive expansion, GER (Gross Enrolment Ratio) being 25.8%, on the one hand, and numerous anomalies like deteriorating teaching-learning quality, on the other, have led to the mushrooming of private coaching. It has, in turn, contributed in magnifying distortions in the realm of higher education, further eroding its public good nature. In this context, this chapter draws from NSS 71st round unit-level records, schedule 25.2, pertaining to Social Consumption: Education (2014–15) and makes an attempt to capture the pattern and cost (at the household level) of private coaching in India for higher educated individuals pertaining to the age group 18–23 years across social groups, gender, location, type of institutions and MPCE quintiles. Then, it eventually captures various social, economic, educational and locational factors influencing household expenditure on private coaching using a Tobit model for the entire country, which has been further disaggregated at the level of rural and urban sectors.
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Notes
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These figures have been calculated by the authors from NSS 71st round unit-level records.
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The study by Sen (2009) pointed out that in case of school education, 54% of parents in West Bengal who could not send their children to private coaching was because they could not afford it.
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Though, for rural and urban sectors, the coefficients are insignificant.
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This study was based on 4031 samples of secondary school students across four states (Kerala, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh).
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The same figures for Northern region are Rs. 2777.20, Northeast is Rs. 2824.91 and is least for the southern region at Rs. 1306.80.
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Mitra, A., Sarkar, N. (2019). Factors Influencing Household Expenditure on Private Tutoring in Higher Education. In: Bhushan, S. (eds) The Future of Higher Education in India. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9061-7_12
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