A day’s travel of an expatriate student in the Gulf often ends very late at night at 9 or 10 PM, when he or she reaches home after the tuition classes. In a classroom of 35 or 40 students, the quality of education is often compromised and hence private tuitions almost becomes essential for proper comprehension and for scoring good marks in the exams. The limited time available in the school also results in the students not being able to comprehend the concepts completely. It has been widely accepted that improper comprehension often leads to learning difficulties in higher classes. All this has caused private tuitions to assume a very important role in a child’s education process today.
But it remains a fact that there is a wide gap between the demand and supply for high quality private tuitions in the Gulf. There are a few reasons for this, the most important being the lack of well trained teachers. Teachers are generally paid very low salaries in the Gulf and hence the quality of teachers is generally low. The rapid progress in the education sector in India has deteriorated the situation further in the Gulf whereby a good teacher in India often gets a higher salary than his counterpart in the Gulf.
Even so, if a child is able to find a good private tutor, there are a number of problems associated with private tuitions that make it cumbersome. It is not an exaggeration that many mothers in the Gulf learn to drive only to commute their kids to and from private tuitions. This is especially so in the case of girl students due to various social and security reasons. The other option for the travel of students is by arranging “car lifts” which has its own different set of social and security problems. This is often an expensive option for most parents which almost doubles the family budget when it comes to the childrens’ education expenses. The security of their kids who come so late in the night after the tuitions and the heavy traffic is always a matter of concern to the parents. For an hour of tuition session, the child often spends more than 3 hours outside his home, owing to the heavy evening traffic.
Evening traffic in Dubai
It is in this context that Planettutor has introduced a novel concept of “e tutoring” in the middle east, which combines technology with expertise, to provide quality tutoring at an affordable cost. Planettutor helps the students get high quality tutoring from the best teachers in the world through the internet, combining the most modern technologies like VOIP, screen sharing and web conferencing, all within the safety and comfort of their homes and under the supervision of their parents.
Whiteboard
Planettutor is led by Mr. Jason Bewley, an eminent educationist and visionary, with his years of expertise of working closely with the education sector in two states in the United States of America. Planettutor has been extensively providing e tutoring services to the students of these states for years.
Jason Bewley
Jason was inspired by his business partners and management team, K. Sakthivel and Roshan Mohamed, to adapt the e tutoring programme for the Indian curricula and to provide the service to Indian students worldwide. The team was instrumental in tailoring the programme to suit the Indian education system and enabling Planettutor to enter the Indian education sector, having headquartered in Coimbatore in south India.
“The most important asset of Planettutor is our large team of highly competent teachers” – Rasidha Ashok, a teacher from Calicut, who was teaching in schools in the US and presently the Tutoring Manager at Planettutor, told ePathram. Having years of experience teaching in the US, she is all praises about Indian teachers. Rasidha testifies that Indian teachers, especially from south India are without doubt the best teachers in the world. And it is specifically due to this reason that Planettutor is recruiting mostly from south India. Extensive training is given to these teachers in using the technology required for e tutoring as well as specialized training in speaking, perfecting their accent to suit the international clientele. These teachers, stationed in India, tutor students around the world including the US. Rasidha opined that she has often felt that the American students have a preference for the Indian teachers.
The fact that the same teachers are made available for the Indian students too, enables the Indian students to improve their language skills and accent too, while receiving sessions through the e tutoring programme. Moreover, they learn to use the computer for more useful tasks than just playing computer games, like file upload, presentations, data management, book keeping etc.
Learning Math is Fun!
Planettutor is providing e tutoring for all major international curricula like IGCSE, IB, American, PBEC etc for the international students.
Planettutor is also presently offering e tutoring services for more than 6000 Indian students. Tutoring is provided for Mathematics, Science and English for Classes 6 to 12 under all major curricula like CBSE, ICSE, State Boards.
e tutoring will be very beneficial to the student in the middle east, with all the inherent problems with private tuitions like traffic, safety etc. It will be a great relief to the parents to watch their children learning in the safety and comfort of their homes, at a time convenient to them, without having to waste time in commuting.
Joining e tutoring is easy. Just select the required number of classes from the table below. A session is an hour of tutoring. You can select from 10 sessions up to 120 sessions. If you require help on just a certain subject or concept, you can opt for a basic 10 sessions package, which is an attractive feature of Planettutor. In this way, you do not have to spend more than what is required. Also, in case you require continuous support, you can avail the 120 sessions package and get huge discounts too.
ePathram has always supported the intuitive use of technology and has partnered with Planettutor e tutoring programme to deliver the services to a larger community. If you register for e tutoring through ePathram, we give you an additional discount on the already heavily discounted introductory offer, as shown in the table above. Please send your details to uae at planettutor dot com and we will get back to you with details about how to enroll for the e tutoring session with the additional discount.
