With the utter failure of the Government over the past fifty years to fulfill its Constitutional obligations towards Education, the Private Sector has woken up with a rude shock to the fact that the calibre of the entrants into Industry, Trade and Commerce is deteriorating rapidly. There is a realisation that there is an urgent need of putting some quality in Schools and Colleges. 

In the recent past there has been a great resurgence of interest in creating good private high school without Government aid, grant or control. 

What gives the private sector effort a bad name is the proliferation of street corner Kindergartens and Primary Schools whose purpose- with some honourable exceptions- is to make money out of the supply and demand situation.  

In the years gone by, the unaided school sector consisted only of Schools run by Charitable Trusts, No-profit Societies and Christian Missions - very few compared to the demand and by and large of superior educational quality to the Government Schools.   

There are tangible and intangible benefits to a private sector Promoter like: -  

• Permanent institutional publicity, the like of which no advertising campaign could possibly provide.
• An invaluable prerequisite for employees and prospective employees of investors.
• A qualitative training ground to feed organisations with future generations of good employees.
• The fostering of a positive public attitude towards the sponsors, private high school, resulting from the School’s eventual contribution to development and community service.
• As a testimonial to the sponsors’ philanthropy and their concrete contribution towards the benefit of the township and for society at large.

 

The need for good Schools imparting quality education is obviously enormous but the promoters must note that the fundamental premise of starting a School is “not to distribute the operating surplus as profit”.  

The Promoter has to accept that “Good education cannot be cheap” because it means - modern facilities and teaching aids, well paid and motivated teachers and not more than 25 students in one section. And yet the need of Private Sector’s participation is desperate. The good schools have waiting lists of over 5 years.