Halo Pak/Ibu guru di Indonesia, terbuka luas peluang mendapat penghasilan tambahan. Demand berupa anak-anak Amerika yang memerlukan pelajaran tambahan matematika dan science. Seumpama Anda bisa charge seorang anak $4/jam, atau separo upah minimum, dan umpama Anda punya murid 4 anak, maka dalam satu jam Anda mendapat penghasilan tambahan $40 !!! Lumayan kan? Tentu saja syaratnya Anda harus mahir Bahasa Inggris dan mahir ber-internet ria pakai head-set.
Salam, RM -------------------- Sunday, January 16, 2005 Tuition Outsourcing: California, Boston kids dial India to brush up maths, science BINU KARUNAKARAN & SMITA NAIR KOCHI/MUMBAI, JANUARY 15 Twice a week, Ann Maria, a sixth grader at Silver Oak Elementary School, California, logs on the Internet from home. She’s not chatting up with friends, but connecting to her personal tutor—already online, armed with a headset and a pen mouse—in a cubicle almost a timezone away in Kochi. Your neighbourhood tuition teacher, riding on the Information Technology Enabled Service (ITES) wave, has now gone global and his monthly pay packet has turned meatier—anywhere between $10 and $40 an hour. ‘‘We started last year with three teachers and around 10 students. There are 17 teachers now and around 160 students,’’ says Bina George, manager, HR and Administration of the Canadian subsidiary. What Bina adds up in numbers is actually a business model which is slowly transforming neighbourhood classroom models across India into global education outsourcing hubs. As the education season goes into the second leg across US and Europe, the demand for tutorial assistance only stands to increase, say industry observers. And with schools recommending additional training for students performing below-average, tutors across Asia stand to gain. Says Shanthanu Prakash, CEO, Educomp Datamatics Ltd, a company which tutors students from the Santa Barbara school district in the US: ‘‘The demand abroad is growing as there is a huge dearth of tuition teachers, especially in the USA, UK and Middle East.’’ Around a year old in India, more players are in the line to pick up this model in 2005, coinciding with new outsourcing contracts from foreign shores. And investments for an organised set-up—infrastructure, networking and brainbank — could be around Rs 4 to 5 crore. Satya Narayanan, chairman of Career Launcher says the time has finally come for India to emerge in this domain. ‘‘This year and the next will see a lot of action in terms of new contracts between international education companies outsourcing tutorial teaching contracts to India, more so from the US market.’’ His logic: superior intellectual power compared to competitors like China, Phillipines, Singapore and other Asia Pacific countries, and a huge English-speaking teachers community. Says Kiran Karnik, president, National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM): ‘‘Foreign countries today acknowledge India’s intellectual brand thanks to efforts of institutes like IIMs and IITs. This model could be one of the best service exports which could finally globalise the education industry.’’ In an industry report on Internet enhanced learning, NASSCOM has pegged 2005 to be the year ‘‘when markets will reach a stage of maturity where benefits of e-learning are more apparent...as opposed to being an isolated human resource function or a lofty concept.’’ ‘‘It is going to change the way education is taught in India and globally. More employment opportunities with a higher payscale and better content delivery will take place. Also, this would lead to corporatisation of education, lending it better branding,’’ says Narayanan. Says 20-year-old Ruchi Dudeja, one of the 10 online brains who guide the school district of Massachusetts at Career Launcher: ‘‘Tutoring Americans on their own syllabus is never tough as we Indians are easily intellectually superior.’’ Dudeja guides eighth grade students through the binary kingdom. And having got into classroom tuitions four years ago for ‘‘extra pocket money’’, the new platform earns her Rs 15,000 per month. With voice-enabled interaction and pre-designed content packages, these online tutors get trained themselves in accent and foreign culture, similar to their BPO counterparts. ‘‘Teachers have to be certified by administrators at the foreign company as well as the Indian agency which completes the outsourcing,’’ says Narayanan. The minimum requirement is a degree and ability to communicate through technology. While Nasscom predicts a big market in the personal online tutoring domain, Educomp’s Prakash feels the court is not yet open to all. ‘‘Only companies with a background in education training and content development can dabble in this at present. BPO companies alone cannot perform in this sector,’’ he says. Yet, expansion plans are busily being drawn up. Growing Star hopes to scale its 57-seater capacity this year. Educom, which benchmarks work on the basis of hours tutored, plans to fill around 50,000 hours by March 2005 and a new contract signed with Community College, Michigan, by the end of this month. ‘‘Today, the market is fairly limited with a handful of players, but in a year or two, we will have call centre formats where teachers will be sitting in cubicles and teaching to a virtual international classroom,’’ says Karnik. URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=62787 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help save the life of a child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's 'Thanks & Giving.' http://us.click.yahoo.com/mGEjbB/5WnJAA/E2hLAA/BRUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. 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