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To get into IIT, India’s children are ditching school for full-time private coaching
India desperately needs to invest in and expand access to quality tertiary education.
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With more than 125,000 classroom students in Kota, Allen Career Institute is the city's biggest coaching enterprise.
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NEW DELHI – Being a parent to a teenager is an experience filled with unease.
It is harder still in India, where highly competitive college entrance exams start looming as soon as a child hits his or her early teens.
