One of the more significant uses that the internet is being put to use to is to help students in different countries with the help of tutors elsewhere.

To give an example, a student of UK or American School, may need help in understanding a subject or subjects, even to do his homework, or prepare for class or board level examinations.

The costs involved in tuitions are high, range as they do from $ 40 to even $ 60. Moreover, these are per hour rates, and it has been found that most of the tuition goes waste, as the student and the tutor often times lose interest, or sometimes the student goes missing or finds an excuse to avoid teaching. Further being taught by a teacher who is familiar, the inter-action between the two does not lead to good results, surprisingly. It should be the other way around.

With the advent of the internet, things have changed. Today, you can find a tutor for any subject elsewhere in the world, who knows the syllabus of the countries they prefer to deal in, and more importantly are conversant with the teaching style, and the manner in which a subject is taught.

It is a pity that in some schools, the emphasis is more on discipline or sports, or both, and the resultant sufferer is a student, who does want to study. There are enough reports in newspapers and other journals that schools in the developed countries have generally declined in offering quality education, despite high costs of education.

The internet launched a revolution in education when tutors came on line. These tutors, for a fee, help students online, using webcams, virtual screen blackboards and also PC to PC phone calling systems.

A great many of them have mushroomed today, and their number is growing steadily. There are a number of very good sites, some providing tuitions on all subjects, based on their tutor banks, and some specialize only in one or two subjects.

All this is to the good.

What is NOT good is that there are tutors’ sites to which the student can submit a topic and have a précis or an essay or an article written for a fee! This is certainly not the kind of tutoring that one would like to have. Let us be clear: writing an essay, précis or a note is not something that tutors should be doing. Rather, they should be helping the student who contacts them with points, what has been written and point out where the mistakes lie and how they can be corrected. But some of the lesser known tutors on the internet do write it out for you. And all the student has to do is to blandly hand it over to the class teacher the next day.

What is the cost of such practice? If you read any journal dealing with education, it has been found that most English and American students cannot even spell simple words, although it is their native language. Worse, they cannot claim to have been brought up in a non-English speaking country. One report has it that the right usage of English is to be found in earlier English dominated countries, such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Singapore and so on. In following this practice, who loses? The student obviously. Not only do they end up uneducated, but also lose the ability and agility to learn something, which is what education is all about.

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