Private Home Tuition Illegal
Gulf Times- 07-01-2016
SEC
The Supreme Education Council (SEC) is to launch a crackdown against private tuition from the second semester of the current academic year.
According to the local Arabic daily Al Arab, the campaign will prohibit private lessons and the promotion of the “phenomenon” with heavy penalties for people who would violate the rules.
The daily, quoting Hassan al-Muhammadi, head of the Communication Office at the SEC, said the penalties for offenders could be imprisonment up to six months and fines reaching QR100,000 or both.
Officers of the SEC will have the judicial authority to deal with any offence in this regard.
Al-Hassan said the measures are being taken to implement the new law for practicing of educational services in Qatar issued last September. He urged publishing houses and advertisement platforms to participate in the campaign by refusing to release any material that promotes and encourages private tuition.
According to the new law, the SEC has the authority to approve educational centres and issue sanctions against those who practice without permission. “Unauthorised private tutors will be targeted in the first phase of the drive,” al-Muhammadi said.
To curb the “unhealthy” practice, awareness campaigns through different media will be run to inform the residents about the new law, he said. The council has already started adding lessons and explanations on the SEC website so that students can study without the help of tutors.
In addition, special classes will be conducted at the schools for students who need help in some of the subjects. Blaming parents for the “laziness” of their kids, the official urged pupils to focus on their teachers in classes instead of depending on private tutors, a phenomenon which, he said, could have a negative impact on children
Teachers are morally bound to give their maximum efforts in classroom. If a teacher gives his best and finish all his lessons in classroom, then there is no need for private tuition. It's schools duty to do whatever required to make child learn what he is supposed to learn from a classroom..
A good teacher is not a common thats the reality, all now wants cash.
PT is right.
Private tuition is useful for our kids because private tutor is qualified and experience teacher. This teacher focus only our kids on tuition time.
Not everyone after money ............. let the students take advantage of somebody's knowledge ..........
Accha, We are after the 2nd type of teachers ........... who have pleasure in doing so ....... !
Brit: In education, there are two types of teachers. The first is the commercial type who is simply interested in making the extra buck and has little or no interest in the development of the qualities in his students. The second is the dedicated type who wants to impart knowledge and drives great pleasure in doing so. Those who fall into the latter group should not be discouraged or even punished as they will be leaving behind a positive mark on the human mind. Also, private tuition is on one-to-one basis where the student has the opportunity to interact directly with the tutor. He can express what he failed to understand in the classroom or his shortcomings and likewise be guided by the tutor. Of course, if schools were run properly and class teachers took the extra effort to ensure that the students have understood what was being taught, the need for private tuition would not exist. Having said that, just how many schools are there which can openly boast of delivering such quality education?
If one is spreading the knowledge ........... what's the harm guys ? .............
In conclusion it would mean that teachers working at schools are not allowed to work otherwise, and those who don't work at schools aren't qualified. Therefore private tuition should be banned in Qatar according to the SEC's new ideas. And that could have only negative effects on the performance of the local pupils. Setting up tutoring centers again depends on the quality of the tutors hired for those, and we all know that this is the main problem in the education system in Qatar. If you pay peanuts, you get m ...
And the next question would be if teachers are allowed to work after school.
The question is what is a "qualified" or "authorized" tutor. Obviously a teacher who is teaching five or ten years at a school should be "qualified". These people obviously can continue to tutor. “Unauthorised private tutors will be targeted in the first phase of the drive,” al-Muhammadi said.
Come on acchabaccha .. You know as well as I do that many see tuition as an easy way of making money - look at the ads on QL.. Man brings his wife over .. She can't find work , so the best option is tuition
In Saudi, some Pakistani colleagues told me that tutors were making 30k per month on the side
I agree with WT. If schools were good, then the need for private tuition would not arise. Qualified private tutors give more to the child in just an hour of coaching at home than what schools give during six hours. Aside from that, I know of some children here who are from Afghanistan who missed their early years of education due to the turmoil in their country and they really need support of a tutor at home to keep them going on with what is being taught in the class.
WT: You are partly right. However, many parents feel that their child will not succeed without private tuition and in many cases teachers themselves use this as a reason to not teach properly in class and make lots of money on the side
Why not give a big start from Matar Qadeem? Those living behind Al Zaman Exchange and holding 50 kids in a class type of tuitions.
It's the same as with the so-called 'Public Transport'. If it were good enough private 'taxis' would have no chance. If the schools were good enough private tuition would not be required. The SEC is admitting that it has failed.
Start with the Ads on QL
About time too - Too many charletons out there