Leading ed-tech platform GuruQ’s mission to remedy the Indian education system

Leading ed-tech platform GuruQ’s mission to remedy the Indian education system

As admission season peaks, parents line up in serpentine queues to get their children admitted to the best schools. It is in school that children acquire and develop social skills, fine motor skills, emotional intelligence, creativity and curiosity, and critical thinking as well as problem-solving. Schools teach us punctuality, discipline, team spirit and help us foster a fine civic sense. However, the present education sector is inefficient owing to a number of reasons. Firstly, the student-teacher ratio is highly disproportionate as ideally, a teacher should have a class of 30-35 students only. 

    However, in most schools today, the number of students is often double that number or close to double. To further augment this problem, teachers often adopt a one-size-fits- all approach when it comes to teaching which does not cater to all students. Secondly, teachers are often rushing to finish the syllabus on time without ensuring that the key concepts have been understood by one and all or not. Consequently, students with average or less than average IQs struggle to keep up with the pace and lag behind. 

     Thirdly, even in the age of digitization, most schools are moving towards adopting digitally- driven learning at a snail’s pace. Teachers should optimally go beyond textbooks and blackboards in order to broaden a student’s horizons. But schools are reluctant to break out of the shackles of the set patterns.

    Minal Anand, Co-founder, and CEO of online tutoring platform, GuruQ believes that these drawbacks put Indian students at a disadvantage when they compete with their international peers. The only option is for students to avail of extra-schooling(tuition) to get that extra understanding of a subject and to ace an exam. However, the school fraternity often frowns upon ‘tuition’ and views it as a kind of a ‘threat’ to the knowledge that is being disseminated by them. But how can this be so, when tuition compliments and supplements school learning. Schools lay the foundation of a student’s knowledge and extra-schooling helps to further enrich this knowledge owing to personalized attention.

     Owing to demanding careers, parents cannot allocate time to personally teach their children in the evenings and are always frantically searching for tutors. To keep up with this demand online tutoring platforms GuruQ is helping students to connect with thoroughly vetted and qualified tutors pan India at pocket- friendly prices via both online and offline classes in order to help them excel in their academic lives and careers. 

    Tutors provide personalized attention to students, give an in-depth understanding of the subject and explain even the minutest details. Besides helping with daily homework, they formulate mock questions before exams to prepare students for the actual examination which is instrumental in increasing their confidence. Minal believes that each child can score exceedingly well if their individual learning styles and abilities are catered to by qualified tutors. Tutors who teach students in highly innovative ways make the lesson more interesting and memorable.  

      Students and parents alike can vouch for the benefits of extra-schooling. The end goal of both schools and tuition is to guarantee the success of students and thankfully a growing number of schools are growing less averse to the necessity of tuition. After all, tuition should be rightly be viewed as an ‘ally’, for when a student cracks a highly prestigious exam, gets placed in a coveted MNC or starts a billion-dollar business, it is often the name and status of a school that gets elevated. With students equally dependant on school and tuition, Education 2.0 is witnessing a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship between both as it is the best of both worlds for students at the end of the day.