Self-Financed Versus Regular Education Programmes in School Level – A Comparative Secondary Data Study Based on Some Selected Schools in West Bengal

Abstract

India has one of the largest education systems in the world. Education has become a must medication for every country to help their existence and development economically. India is one among them, which concentrates more on extending education to the whole states within that and make sure that it being developed into a 100 per cent literacy rated nation. The purpose of education is to sense talent proactively and the reason of school education is to guide the child’s discovery of self, identify and nurture his potential to the fullest. Education sector needs ruling to ensure planned and development, quality of education, equity and social justice i.e., quotas and other affirmative policies. Education in India is provided by the public sector with the private sector, with control and funding next from three levels, those are central, state and local. A regulatory body of education is an external group that has been empowered by legislation to supervise and legalize the educational process and outputs relevant to it.  Self-financing programmes are the programmes which are financed by charging user fees from students that means from parents on behalf of students. There is almost no government subsidy for such self-financing programmes. The nature of self-financing programmes depends on the institutional mode under which it is delivered. In India, there are many numbers of Council or Board and their affiliated schools – government aided and private, besides some institutes have national importance that deliver primary education programmes. Now, side by side, so many government sponsored schools are also offering self-financing programme after getting affiliation from the

different government regulatory boards or council. Government and Board(s) have no financial liability to run these type of education smoothly. So, students’ parents have to bear all expenses to pursue the primary education. Therefore, from the above discussion we can find two types of courses namely regular education programme and self-financing education programme from the view point of funding simultaneously with discrepant importance. In regular education, we can see the fee structure is minimum and in self-financing education, we can see the fee structure is maximum (some institute charge too much).

Through this study the researcher, it may be suggested as regards economic sustainability of having self-financing education programme in primary education or not by comparing with regular education programme.