Private tutoring becomes growing concern in Tunisia
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- 05 Oct 2022
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In recent years, private tutoring has become a growing concern in Tunisia, as it starts earlier and earlier among students, with quite a few first-graders taking private lessons after school.
Imen Ben Khelifa, a mother of three, told Xinhua that many students in Tunisia take private lessons from the first year of primary school in order to "lay a solid foundation for future studies."
For Jouhaina Amri, a 12-year-old girl in the seventh grade, private tutoring has long been a "nightmare" to her.
"I don't have a day off to rest even on the weekend, which makes me stressed and unhappy," Amri complained, adding that her mother always pushed her to become a top student in the class.
"The phenomenon (of private tutoring) continues throughout a (Tunisian) student's schooling and reaches its peak before getting the baccalaureate," Raouf Laroussi, researcher and teacher at the National Engineering School of Tunis, said in an article published recently in the news website Kapitalis.
He added that in addition to maths and physics, the most popular subjects for tutoring, other subjects are joining the private tutoring club.
"There are now even private lessons of philosophy," Laroussi said.
It is the same story in other countries. According to a report published in May by the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, a Germany-based nonprofit research institute focusing on the analysis of global labor markets, students are increasingly turning to private tutoring, mainly in developing countries, as a result of the relatively unsatisfactory education quality offered by some formal educational institutions.
Compared to the degree of importance Tunisian parents attached to private tutoring, the overall education level in the North African country is worrying. Read More…
