Interesting article in Forbes India by Meeta Sengupta: If there is one system that is working to further rigour, accuracy and excellence (of sorts), it is the tutoring ecosystem...it is the tutoring system that has added the quality dimension to it. If the goal is better marks, the tuition system has delivered on it. If the goal is smaller classes, the tutoring system has delivered. If the goal is teacher accountability – again, the tutoring system has delivered excellence. ...Students are not necessarily becoming dumber or smarter; they are becoming more skilled at taking exams. This is what a tutor does – and they are good at it. Here is the interesting thing: the tutoring ecosystem has delivered on a national goal of improving standards (as measured by marks) without being organised, regulated, scaled or standardised. There are lessons here for the schooling system – both in the public and private sectors. The tutoring system has been able to deliver much more than a traditi...