It's an industry that emerged from a parental ambition to provide the best education for one's kids. But there are concerns about the quality of tutoring services and child protection — and experts want greater regulation.
Private tutoring services are booming in Australia — valued at an estimated $1 billion and 4,000 businesses in operation — with Asian migrant communities from China, India, Vietnam and South Korea forming the bulk of their clients.
"You have to have good marks, to go into a good university, to get a good job, to find a good partner and all those things." "Korea is quite famous for that really competitive education system. In the past, the Korean government conducted raids on tutoring centres at night to force them to close," Dr Ho said."The study culture is really intense in Korea, and then as Korean migrants come to Australia I guess they're feeling the same kind of pressure.""They're newcomers in a place where it's not their native language, they're trying to get ahead," Dr Ho said.
"For these Korean tutoring centres , often it tends to be the case that class might start at 5pm and is supposed to finish at 8pm, but it might carry on to 8.30-9pm and tutors will ask to get on when they get home online, or come back in on another day," he said. Ms Kim, who did not want her real name published for fear of professional backlash, said the style of education delivered by tutoring businesses was drastically different to that in mainstream Australian education."Especially because I have a young class, they really struggle with some of the content that's in the learning material.
Migrant families, many of whom are not wealthy, make immense sacrifices to fund their children's out-of-school coaching. "There's been documented examples of shonky practices going on out there and quite exploitative given we're targeting first-generation migrants a lot of the time, who may not have great English, may not understand their legal rights," she said.The federal Department of Education did not respond directly to the ABC's inquiry about whether it would consider pushing for the industry to be regulated.
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