Union Education Ministry issues new guidelines for coaching centers

Union Education Ministry issues new guidelines for coaching centers

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New Delhi: The Ministry of Education has announced new guidelines to regulate coaching institutes, addressing the need for a legal framework and tackling the unregulated growth of private centers. These regulations come in response to rising concerns about student well-being, including suicides, fire incidents, inadequate facilities, and questionable teaching methodologies. According to new guidelines, coaching centres cannot enrol students below 16 years of age, make misleading promises and guarantee rank or good marks. “No coaching centre shall engage tutors having qualifications less than graduation. The institutions cannot make misleading promises or guarantee rank or good marks to parents for enrolling students in the coaching centres. The institutes cannot enrol students below 16 years of age. Student enrolment should be only after secondary school examination,” the guidelines said.

“The coaching institutes cannot publish or cause to be published or take part in the publication of any misleading advertisement relating to any claim, directly or indirectly, of quality of coaching or the facilities offered therein or the result procured by such coaching centre or the student who attended such class,” it added. The coaching centres cannot hire the services of any tutor or person who has been convicted of any offence involving moral turpitude. An institute will not be registered unless it has a counselling system as per the requirement of these guidelines. “Coaching centres shall have a website with updated details of the qualification of tutors, courses/curriculum, duration of completion, hostel facilities, and the fees being charged,” the guidelines stated.