Here’s why education startups are gamechangers in India
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Giving a whole new makeover to how education is being imparted in India, a few educational startups are bringing a revolution in this arena. Teaming education with most advanced technology, school children are no more feeling reluctant to attend school.As per a news report by The Economic Times, these startups in the education sector that happen to be in the right sector at the right time, as infrastructure - high-speed internet connectivity, cloud-based software, advanced analytics capability, and smartphones and tablets - now exist to support newer education formats for an attention-deficit and highly competitive generation Y. The complex kindergarten-to-class 12, or K-12, segment isn't without deterrents, but it's not easy for education entrepreneurs to resist the potential to address India's more than 250 million school students, larger than the populations of the United Kingdom, South
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“There is a generational shift taking place in the student community - the way the current generation lives their life, thinks, engages and spends their time - which has not happened over the last three generations," K Ganesh, one of India's most successful education entrepreneurs, who sold his online tutoring company Tutorvista to British firm Pearson for over Rs 1269 crore ($200 million) two years ago told the ET.
"The next 25 years will be the golden era of education," he said. Education startups are teaching students the way they like to be taught: in small, byte-sized, 10-minute videos that can be watched on the go; fostering peer-to-peer learning through games or quizzes; and providing customised training, among other things. In doing so, they are able to engage and retain students' attention far more effectively than early e-learning firms such as
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