Education To Home (ETH), an institute founded by scientist
Vijay Bhatkar, which provides quality education at the doorstep of aspiring learners, has launched a programme called ‘Compete ETH education’.
The new programme will provide coaching, guidance and mentoring for more than 15 competitive examinations, including IIT-JEE, AIEEE, MHT-CET, KVPY and IIST for getting admissions into IIT, NIT and other government or private engineering colleges, said Bhatkar.
Thousands of talented students do not get an opportunity to appear for these examinations due to lack of awareness and unavailability of good coaching facilities in districts, talukas and other remote places.
While examinations like IIT-JEE or AIEEE are extremely competent and require deep knowledge of fundamental concepts of physics, chemistry and mathematics, exams such as MHT-CET
require rigorous practice.
Coaching and guidance from highly qualified faculty plays a key role, but it is only limited to few a metros and second-level cities.
Due to this, a large number of students migrate to cities leaving their villages or home towns and parents have to bear the additional expenses of education, which becomes difficult for middle class parents to afford. Bhatkar claims that ‘Compete ETH education’ would remove this divide.
A combination of competent teachers and information and communication technology will help thousands of aspirants from remote areas to achieve their dream.
Coaching by expert faculty in every district and taluka of Maharashtra at an affordable fee would be the highlight of this programme.
This coaching will be provided using in-class as well as using remote tutoring through T-Education (via Set Top Box) on television sets.
The first phase of this programme aims to target 10,000 students through 100 such centres in a span of one year.
The centres will also be opened in secondary and higher secondary schools under the School Integrated Programme (SIP) to provide pre-foundation and foundation level tuitions to students of standard VIII, IX and X.
The programme will also provide coaching for school-level examinations such as Homi Bhabha, NTS and various olympiads.
Besides, MobilEX, a mobile application to practice for these exams with more than 10,000 questions has also been developed to enable students to continuously practice anytime, anywhere.
