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Mark Bray & Ora Kwo (eds.) (2014). Regulating Private Tutoring for Public Good: Policy Options for Supplementary Education in Asia. Hong Kong: The Central Printing Press Ltd.

The main thesis of the book is that private supplementary tutoring alongside regular schooling has great implications on the system of values of new generations, their social development, and development of educational systems. The authors felt the need to address the problem of private supplementary tutoring as it is growing into a problematic educational area especially in the recent years. Private supplementary tutoring is in an educational area that is not regulated or controlled which gives space for growing social inequalities and raises a large number of questions about quality of mainstream educational. Authors’ goal is not to put private supplementary tutoring under the spotlight as a negative phenomenon, but to make it easier to monitor and regulate. The book is comprised of 6 chapters roughly the same size (around 10 pages per chapter). The remaining pages are Appendix, References and Notes on the Authors. As an interesting reading material, this title makes fairly easy reading. Writing style is simple and accessible to wide audience. Due to specific topics of interest, I recommend this book to a large number of readers – from students of various educational profiles, educational experts, headmasters of educational organizations and to all educational policy makers. The book is also available online which makes it very accessible to readers worldwide.

Asia ; Education ; Policy Options ; Private Tutoring ; Regulations

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