Coaching from Kochi
With many US students taking online lessons from teachers in India, especially Kerala, tuition outsourcing is offering lucrative opportunities to these professionals, writes A. Saj Mathews
When the rest of the city sleeps, many postgraduate teachers in Kochi sit wide awake before their PCs, giving interactive online tuitions to children seated before similar computer modules, continents apart in the USA. Yes, outsourcing is entering new areas with US school kids increasingly taking tuitions from teachers in Kerala, throwing open lucrative work options for these professionals.

Teachers at work in a Kochi centre that conducts e-tutoring for students in the USA. — Photo by the writer

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Career Hotline
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