Private Tutoring, Public Exams and Higher Education

Session 4: Private supplemen-tary tutoring in Asia: Macro and micro perspectives: paper 1Private supplementary tutoring is a response to formal education, reflecting what students hope to get from private tutoring which they think they cannot get from the mainstream education. University students by definition are the “winners” in public examinations. Through in-depth interviews with twenty undergraduates who attended private tutorials as secondary students, this project explores: (1) the attitudes, expectations, and motivations of tutorial attendees; and (2) How attending tutorials shapes students’ conception about education