Expanding Informal Sector Activities in Dhaka City. A Case Study of Education Coaching
					
	
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				The study of urban informal sector education has gained importance and expanded the scope and contents of the study in the last thirty years. One of the major challenges for geographers is finding the dynamics of this sector, as it is expanding gradually and a huge number of students are related to this activities. This research examines the role of education coaching as an urban informal activity. Dhaka city as a center of education has been experiencing the proliferation of coaching centers for the last twenty years. The mushrooming of coaching centers is symptomatic of the failure of Bangladesh’s education system as a whole. Formal education institutions are failing to provide students with necessary instructions in the classrooms. This is why the guardians and their wards are making a beeline for education coaching. This research aims to describe the process of growth of coaching centers as an informal sector activity with a special emphasis on students’ involvement in this process. As an empirical research, it follows a detailed questionnaire survey and direct interview method. This study discusses the size of economy controlled by the coaching centers, students’ dependency on coaching and the impact of these phenomena. 
			
		
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Table Of Contents
CONTENTS 
PAGE NO. 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
3 
ACRONYMS  
7 
ABSTRACT 
8 
CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION 
9-22 
1.1  Introduction 
9 
1.2  Statement of  the Problem 
9-10 
1.3  Definition of the Informal Sector 
10-11 
1.3.1  Towards the Definition 
11-12 
1.4  Aims and Objectives 
12 
1.5  Significance of the Study 
12-13 
1.6  Conceptual Framework of the Study 
13 
1.6.1  Explanations of the Key Variables  
14 
1.6.2  Process of Getting Students' Involvement  
15-16 
1.7  Research Hypothesis 
16 
1.8  Methodology of the Study 
16-17 
1.8.1  Source of Data 
17 
1.8.2  The Study Area 
17-18 
1.8.3  Selection of the Respondents and Sample Size 
18 
1.8.4   Questionnaire Design 
19-20 
1.9  Research Design 
21 
1.10  Scope and Limitation of the Study 
22 
1.11  Organization of the thesis 
22 
CHAPTER TWO: EDUCATION SYSTEM IN BANGLADESH AND 
EVOLUTION OF COACHING IN THIS SYSTEM 
23-28 
2.1  History of Education in Bangladesh Perspective 
23-25 
2.2  Dhaka: A Center of Education 
26 
2.3  Background of Coaching Centers' Development 
26-27 
2.4  Impact of Education Coaching on Society 
27-28 
2.5  Commercial Aspect 
28 
CHAPTER THREE: EDUCATION COACHING AS AN INFORMAL 
ACTIVITY: ITS DEVELOPMENT AND STUDENTS'   
INVOLVEMENT IN THIS ACTIVITY 
29-40 
3.1  Introduction 
29 
3.2  Education Coaching in Dhaka City 
29 
3.3  General Characteristics 
30-31 
3.4  Types of Coaching Centers and Their Branches 
31-32 
3.5  Location of the Coaching Center 
33 
3.6  Nature of Employment 
36 
3.6.1  Teachers of the Coaching Centers 
37 
3.6.2   Others Staff of the Coaching Centers 
38 
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3.7  Students' Involvement as a Service Provider in this Sector 
39 
3.8  Students' Involvement as a Service Receiver in this Sector 
39 
3.9  Conclusions 
40 
CHAPTER FOUR: DETERMINANTS OF THE SIZE OF THE 
ECONOMY 
41-46 
4.1  Introduction 
41 
4.2  Income Generated by the Coaching Center 
41-43 
4.3  Investment Pattern  
43 
4.4  Expenditure Pattern for the Students 
44 
4.5  Net Turnover per Year 
45 
4.6  Conclusions 
46 
CHAPTER FIVE: STUDENTS' DEPENDENCY ON EDUCATION 
COACHING 
47-60 
5.1  Introduction 
47 
5.2  Social Factors 
47 
5.2.1  Educational Background of the Parents 
47 
5..2.2  Who Influence the Children to Take Extra Coaching 
49 
5.2.3  Occupational Pattern of Guardians and their Opinion towards the 
Necessity of Education Coaching 
50 
5.3  Economic Factors 
52 
5.4  Other Circumstances 
53-60 
5.5  Conclusions 
60 
CHAPTER SIX: IMPACT OF EDUCATON COACHING: AN OPINION 
SURVEY 
61-65 
6.1 Introduction 
61 
6.2 National Level Experts and Their Opinion  
61-65 
6.3 Conclusions 
65 
CHAPTER SEVEN: SUMMERY AND CONCLUSIONS 
66-68 
7.1  Summery and Conclusions 
66-68 
7.2  Guideline for Future Research  
68 
LIST OF TABLES 
Table 3.1: Number of Branches in Dhaka of the surveyed Coaching Centre 
32 
Table 3.2: Number of Branches outside of Dhaka of the surveyed Coaching 
Centre 
32 
Table 3.3: Total number of employee of the coaching surveyed centre 
36 
Table 3.4:   Number of permanent employee of the surveyed coaching centre 
37 
Table 3.5: Number of temporary employee of the surveyed coaching centre 
37 
Table 3.6: Teachers' qualification of the surveyed coaching centre 
37 
Table 3.7:  Salary for the teacher surveyed coaching centre 
38 
Table 3.8:  Honorarium for the Director of the surveyed coaching centre 
38 
Table 3.9: Salary for the managerial staff of the surveyed coaching centre 
39 
Table 3.10: Base year students number of surveyed coaching centre 
39 
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Table 3.11: Last year (2010) students' number  of  surveyed coaching centre 
40 
Table 3.12: Number of students enrolled in coaching centers surveyed 2011 
40 
Table 4.1: Distribution of expenditure (per month) on education coaching 
41 
Table 4.2: Admission fee of the surveyed coaching centre 
42 
Table 4.3: Course fee (monthly) of the academic coaching centre  
43 
Table 4.4: Subject wise fee of the academic coaching centre surveyed 
43 
Table 4.5: Rent of office building (head office) of the coaching centre 
surveyed 
44 
Table: 4.6 Nature of the promotional activity 
44 
Table 4.7: Cost of promotional activity (per year) 
44 
Table 4.8: Services provided by the coaching centre 
45 
Table 4.9: Net turnover per year of the surveyed coaching centre 
45 
Table 5.1: Level of education of the parents and guardians of the respondent 
students 
48 
Table 5.2: Distribution reasons behind sending their wards to the coaching 
49 
Table 5.3: Source that influence the students in making decision of taking extra 
coaching  
49 
Table 5.4: Reasons for taking extra education coaching 
50 
Table 5.5: Occupation pattern of the parents and guardians of the students 
surveyed 
51 
Table 5.6: Guardians' response as to the necessity of education coaching    
51 
Table 5.7: Reasons behind negative comments 
52 
Table 5.8: Monthly education expenditure of the parents and guardians of the 
student 
53 
Table 5.9: Students' opinion towards formal school education  
54 
Table 5.10: If sufficient, then why take coaching 
54 
Table 5.11: Reasons behind negative responses 
55 
Table 5.12: Students' opinion towards the necessity of coaching in our 
education system 
56 
Table 5.13: Reasons behind students' opinion 
56 
Table 5.14: Family income level and expenditure on education coaching 
57 
Table 5.15: Students' satisfaction in the services of coaching centre 
58 
Table 5.16:  Services of coaching centre preferred by the respondents 
59 
Table 5.17: Impact of coaching on students' result 
59 
Table 6.1: Summery of the opinions of national level expert 
62-63 
LIST OF FIGURES 
Figure 1: Cause and indicators that create a condition for the development of 
education coaching as an informal activity. 
13 
Figure 2:  Students' involvement (as service receiver) in this sector 
15 
Figure 3: Research Design 
21 
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ACRONYMS  
H.S.C          Higher Secondary Certificate  
S.S.C          Secondary School Certificate  
ILO             International Labor Organization  
EBSEB      East Bengal Secondary Education Board   
SBA            School Based Assessment   
MBA           Master of Business Administration  
UGC           University Grant Commission  
MoE            Ministry of Education 
Figure 4: Changing the pattern of education coaching from home based to 
semi formal form 
27 
LIST OF MAPS 
Map 1: Location of Selected Schools 
19 
Map 2: Distribution of Coaching Center in Dhaka City 
30 
Map 3: Location of Selected Coaching Center 
34 
Map 4: Branches of Coaching Centers's Outside of Dhaka 
35 
REFERENCES 
69 
APPENDICES 
70-74 
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Abstract:  
The study of urban informal sector education has gained importance and expanded the scope 
and contents of the study in last thirty years. One of the major challenges of geographers to 
find the dynamics of this sector, as it is expanding gradually and a huge number of students 
are related to this activities.  This research examines the role of education coaching as an 
urban informal activity. Dhaka city as a center of education has been experiencing the 
proliferation of coaching centers since last twenty years. The mushrooming of coaching 
centers is symptomatic of the failure of our education system as a whole. Formal education 
institutions are failing to provide the students with necessary instructions at the classroom. 
This is why the guardians and their wards are making a beeline for education coaching.  This 
research aims to describe the process of growth of coaching centers as an informal sector 
activity with a special emphasis on students' involvement in this process. As an empirical 
research, it follows detailed questionnaire survey and direct interview method. This study 
discusses the size of economy controlling by the coaching centers, students' dependency on 
coaching and the impact of this phenomena. It has been found in the study the study that 
parents' concern and desire for better result play important role to students' involvement in 
coaching. About 96.67 percent students take extra education coaching. It concludes that this 
informal sector activity is creating a negative impact on our education system and there is 
much room for further research to explore different aspects of this activity. 
Keywords:  Informal sector, education coaching, formal education, students, dependency on 
coaching. 
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CHAPTER ONE 
GENERAL INTRODUCTION 
1.1   Introduction  
Informal sector is that part of an economy which is beyond official recognition and record 
and which produces productive, useful and necessary goods and services without formal 
system of control. Informal sector activities constitute a major part of the urban economy in 
the Third World countries like Bangladesh. It provides employment more than 60 percent of 
the labour force (Islam, 2010). Bangladesh is an overpopulated country. Population growth 
rate of Bangladesh is about 1.54 percent and growth rate of population of the capital city 
Dhaka is about 4.2 percent (Population Census, 2001). This unusual growth of population in 
Dhaka have been due to various factors such as natural increase, migration from rural to 
urban and migration from other cities owing to greater attraction of employment. But the 
formal sector is not sufficient to provide services to the increasing population. So, people 
have to engage themselves in the informal activities. As a result, different types of informal 
activities are flourishing day by day in the city. Education Coaching is one of them. It has 
been operating in the city both in informal and semi formal manner. The pattern and process 
of its growth and development is directly or indirectly linked with the space, history, culture 
and socio-economic condition of the country. This study will focus on the growth and 
development of the sector as well as the nature and students' dependency on this informal 
activity.  
1.2   Statement of the problem   
Education coaching is one of the fundamental problems for the development of our national 
education system. It is however, not a new phenomenon. It has been practicing for ages 
through in different forms and under different circumstances. It is very interesting and at the 
same time a subject of deep concern that in recent decades there have been substantial 
increases of coaching centers in Dhaka city. At present it has sprung out all over the city as 
an informal activity. Students cannot think of getting an admission at any level- from primary 
to the highest seat of learning without going through this coaching centre, which is a threat to 
our education system. The impact of this informal activity is quite visible in our society and 
reflected as a negative consequence for the education system as well as urban economy.  
Education is the gradual process of acquiring knowledge. It is widely recognized that 
education serves as an engine for the community. It plays a vital role in all around 
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development of the society. Earlier economists argued that the purpose is to produce 
competent human resources in order to develop a state (Kotler, 2006). In 1980's scholars 
argued that the purpose of education is to train its consumers in order to contribute both in 
economic and social human needs contexts which will ultimately provide a balanced national 
development. Modern and contemporary education is necessary for this development. It has 
increased the quality of education. But at the same time it has created an opportunity for 
marketization of education in the form of coaching, which is unethical.  
The informal sector has been growing in Dhaka city in such a way that it can no longer be 
considered as a temporary phenomenon. Coaching centre has become one of the largest 
informal activities of the city where investment is nominal but the return is phenomenal. An 
incongruous and irrelevant situation is found in the city of Dhaka and it is expanding fast in 
other cities and towns of the country which seems to be very unethical. We cannot deny this 
situation as time has created this situation. The existence of so many coaching centers sketch 
the practical situation of the education system of our country. Probably the government does 
not have or very little control over these institutions. They remain isolated from the existing 
government rules. However, there has been little investigation and research on urban informal 
sector education in Bangladesh, and those studies are not adequate to explain the problem and 
prospect of this sector. So, it needs a scientific study to explain its dynamics in terms of 
economy, employment generation and students' dependency on this sector.  
1.3   Definition of the informal sector  
The informal sector is an important addition into the economy of Third World country. The 
informal sector as its name suggests is not formal in character. Thus the economic activities 
in any field not formally recognized by the authority may be included activities under 
informal sector. In the absence of a clear definition, the concept remained hazy and 
boundaries were indistinct. The picture began to clear in 1971, when Keith Hart compiled a 
list of income earning opportunities among resident of a slum area in Accra in Ghana, in 
which he contrasted the informal income earning opportunities with that of formal sector. The 
distinguishing characteristic used was wage earning employment as against self-employment.  
Sethuraman(1976) provides a useful direction by suggesting some multiple criteria for 
identifying informal enterprises. These are: (1) the enterprises distribute output directly to the 
consumer, (2) members of the household head of the enterprise work in it, (3) it does not 
observe fixed hours of operation. However, in search of workable definition of the informal 
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sector, the concept developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO). During early 
1970s, the ILO enunciated the concept of the informal sector which was regarded as having 
the following characteristics:  
xNon wage earning  
xUnauthorized and unregulated operation  
xLabour intensive and adapted technology  
xNon formal sources of education and skills  
xReliance on indigenous resources  
Informal sector consists of small scale units engaged in the production or distribution of 
goods and service operated whether on individual or household basis with the primary 
objectives of generating employment and income to the participants notwithstanding the 
constraints on capital.  
Over the last 35 years, the ILO in particular has presided over, conducted and sponsored 
hundreds of studies to better understand the myriad of social, economic, environmental and 
political issues relating to the informal economy in the cities. Most of this research has been 
focused on cities in less developed countries. There is a wide variety of informal activities 
ranging from micro to macro level. Most of these activities have evolved from local necessity 
and unemployment situation. These activities have both advantages and disadvantages.  
In 2002, the ILO defined the informal economy as "all economic activities by workers and 
economic unit that are  in law or in practice  not covered or insufficiently covered by 
formal arrangements" (ILO 2002). The new definition broadens the focus from just looking at 
the characteristics of unregulated enterprises to include unregulated wage earners and 
employment relationship.  
1.3.1  Towards the Definition  
Education coaching as an informal activity has been practicing in the country for ages. But 
the practice was very limited in the past. Then it was not viewed as a part of economy. But in 
recent decades, the proliferation of these coaching centers has compelled the researchers to 
consider it as a part of informal economy. However, education coaching has a different form. 
Generally, they are operating in three forms- in organized coaching centers, coaching in 
teachers' home and private tutors in students' home. Two types of education coaching are 
found in the city- academic coaching and admission coaching. Coaching for different classes 
and different subjects and for exam preparation coaching is included in academic coaching. 
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Admission coaching provides special coaching for school, college, and university and MBA 
admission. However, they have no authority to provide formal certificate. Some of the 
coaching centers have trade license and pay tax to the government, but the vast sector is 
operating in an unregulated manner. Official recognition and security of employment is 
absent. At the empirical level, education coaching as an informal activity is defined to 
comprise those enterprises which satisfy one or more of the following conditions. 
x Easy entry in the job market  
x Lack of formal educational qualification  
x Low wages and does not have any fixed wage structure 
x Does not observe fixed hours of operation  
x Does not have fixed number of employee  
x No official recognition and job security  
x Unregulated and competitive market   
1.4   Aims and objectives  
The aim of this study is to understand the process of growth of coaching centers as informal 
activity and its role in the economy. It aims to identify the condition under which they absorb 
students and generate employment and income. It also aims to investigate if there would be 
any relationship between formal sector institutions and informal coaching centers. More 
specifically, the objectives of this research are:  
1. To study the size of economy the coaching centers control in the city.  
2. To estimate what proportion of students come through these coaching centers.  
3. To study the process of getting students' involvement as well as the pattern of 
development of coaching centers in the informal sector activities.  
1.5   Significance of the Study  
Geographers ask what factors control the pattern of distribution of a phenomenon and the 
impact that the phenomenon creates on the space. The more advanced an urban economy is, 
the greater the inevitability of the shift of economic activity from informal to formal spheres. 
Based on this assumption, Third World cities like Dhaka will generate more informal 
economic activities than the more advanced urban counterparts in more developed countries, 
and are therefore more worthy of research. Thus the significance of the study lies in the fact 
that enormous coaching centers have been established on the base of Dhaka and their service 
is becoming valuable for the students. Millions of students are getting informal services from 
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them. Many people including the teachers and the students are involved in this process. The 
money, generated from the sector is also phenomenal. However, little is known about the 
dynamics of this sector in terms of its process of development and pattern of activities. It is 
necessary to understand this sector whether the sector stands as counter pole of the formal 
education sector. This study is an attempt to find out the total process of the sector as an 
informal activity in the city.  
1.6   Conceptual framework of the study   
An informal economic activity is one which is unregulated, unregistered, and does not pay 
tax to the government. Cumbersome entry procedures push entrepreneurs into the informal 
economy, where businesses pay no taxes and many of the benefits that regulation is supposed 
to provide are missing. As a result different types of informal activities are found in the city. 
Education coaching is one of them. It is operating both in formal and semi formal way. That 
is why it is very important to know the determinants of the activity. The study considers the 
size of this informal economy, growth of coaching centre and students' involvement to these 
coaching centers. The following diagram is considered for the development of education 
coaching in the informal sector:  
 Figure 1: Cause and indicators that create a condition for the development of education 
coaching as an informal activity. 
Causes                                                                                                                         Indicators   
Development of 
education coaching as 
an informal activity 
Demand for quality 
education 
Competition for better 
result 
Insufficient teacher 
and infrastructure 
problem in the formal 
institution 
Unregulated activities 
Provide no formal 
degree 
Income generation 
            Expenditure  
Tax payment 
Investment pattern 
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1.6.1   Explanations of the key variables   
· Problems in the formal educational institution:  Problems in the formal educational 
institution create a situation for taking extra education coaching. Two major problems 
of many government and non-government are insufficient teacher and inadequate 
infrastructure.  
· Demand for quality education: Education is necessary for all kind of development. 
And demand for education is increasing with the increasing number of population. 
But sometimes formal educational institutions cannot fulfill this demand. So, students 
have to take extra coaching. As a result, coaching centers are growing.  
· Competition for better result: Competition has been increased for better result to get 
access to better educational institutions. For this higher class, middle and higher 
middle class families send their wards to the coaching centers.  
·  Unregulated activities: A leap frog development of education coaching has been 
found in recent decades. Government has no control over them. They are doing their 
activities in an unregulated manner.  
· Income generation: Income generated by an informal activity is a good indicator to 
measure its size of the economy.  
· Expenditure pattern: Education coaching is a different type of informal activity. Its 
expenditure pattern for its consumer will provide information about the range of 
services.  
· Tax payment:  Informal enterprises are characterized as informal because they rarely 
comply with tax payment. So, it is an indicator to identify the nature of education 
coaching as an informal activity.  
· Investment pattern: Most of the informal activities invest very low amount of money 
for starting its business. Investment pattern reflects the process of growth of these 
activities.  
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1.6.2   Process of Getting Students' Involvement  
Like many others informal activities, it is very difficult to sketch the pattern of its 
development and the process of its operating system. Different types of coaching have 
evolved to serve different purpose. But the process of getting students' involvement is more 
or less same. Following diagram will depict the process of getting students' involvement  
Figure 2:  Students' involvement (as service receiver) in this sector 
The role of education is to develop human resources, build the nation and making linkage 
between knowledge and empowerment. Education should be a means to empower people to 
become active participant in the community. Education must be the right of the citizens not 
their opportunity. But what actually we see the privileged ones in the society have the right 
and opportunity whereas the neglected section receives very scantly of education.  
Dhaka city, the nerve centre of business, commerce and education of the country, hosts 
people of various categories. But the number of education institutions is not adequate to serve 
the demand of these people. The wards of middle and higher middle class study in privately 
established educational institutions. But to get wards admission into these institutions seems 
to be nightmare ordeal to the guardians. After getting admission into these institutions, 
guardians have to bear a constant headache till the wards pass the public examination due to 
various unhealthy practices developed in these institutions over the year  
Due to the limited seats in these institutions many deserving candidates are deprived of 
admission facilities which throw the guardians into a world of despair. After the admission 
Problems in the  
formal educational 
institutions 
Parents' concern and 
their income push them 
to take extra education 
coaching  
Education coaching 
Operating in an 
informal or semi 
formal process 
Academic 
coaching 
Admission 
coaching 
Desire for getting 
admission on a 
good institution 
Gap between the 
public exam. and the 
admission test 
Desire for better result
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every students bound to read three or more private tutors which claims three or four times 
more expenditure than that of usual tuition fee.  
For getting admission a little kid is also to undergo a hard admission test and the contents of 
one test are quite unmatchable for their age. These standards are getting tougher and tougher. 
And guardians are getting more conscious and competitive minded. As a result coaching is 
evolving in our education arena.  
1.7   Research Hypotheses  
Informal activity is the largest sector of urban economy by employments. There is a growing 
appreciation among scholars in urban development and design, especially those involved in 
the `Everyday Urbanism' movement (kaliski,1999), of the informalization of  urban space 
driven largely by informal economic activities. Informal activities and its variation have 
compelled academics to define their impact on urban environment. Education coaching is one 
of them. It is providing service to the education sector in an informal way. This research tries 
to identify the spatial pattern of this activity and the processes that are involved in the 
development of this pattern. The research has the following hypotheses:  
H
1
:   Problems in the formal educational institutions are positively associated with the  
growth of extra coaching activities. 
H
2
:  Students' family income is directly related to their involvement in the extra  
education coaching. 
H
3
:  Students' results are positively related to their engagement in the education coaching. 
1.8   Methodology of the Study  
Different types of coaching centers are expanding in the city but no information is found 
about their process of development and operating system. The research has been conducted 
under the topic of "Expanding Informal Sector Activities in Dhaka City: A Case Study of 
Education Coaching". All empirical research in such field must be exploratory not only 
because of the problems of definition but also because of the lack of adequate statistical 
information. The research methodology followed in this study is therefore exploratory. Both 
qualitative and quantitative approach has been applied for the nature of investigation and 
circumstances of the research topic.  
 The study has been conducted according to the following sequences:  
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1. Relevant literature from secondary sources was reviewed to outline the nature of the 
problem of informal sector with particular reference to education coaching.  
2. Number of education coaching in Dhaka City was collected from the secondary 
sources.  
3. Twenty coaching centers have been selected for the detailed study.  
4. Finally, a questionnaire survey was undertaken to generate primary data for the study.  
5. Relevant expert opinion has been taken.  
1.8.1   Source of Data  
The secondary sources include published materials and official documents like books, 
journals, magazines, newspapers, reports, leaflets etc.  
Primary data were collected in several stages, by conducting questionnaire surveys. The first 
target was to select coaching centers of different categories to collect information about their 
growth and development process. Thus, the first stage of primary survey was to choose 
coaching centers at various locations.  
The second target was to collect information from students about the reasons for taking extra 
education coaching. The students from higher classes at secondary level were selected.  
The third stage of questionnaire survey was a follow-up study with the guardians after getting 
information from the students. 
The fourth stage of primary investigation was in-depth interviews that are conducted with the 
experts and intellectuals. The experts were chosen from various disciplines as well as 
occupational categories.  
1.8.2   The Study Area   
The study focuses on the present situation of education coaching as an expanding informal 
activity in Dhaka city. Thus, the whole Dhaka city is the study area.  However, the study 
needs to generate primary data from appropriate respondents. So, it is necessary to select 
educational institutions as well as coaching of various types from different location. In terms 
of location, it would have been ideal; if those were selected from all over the city. Due to 
limitation of time and resource, the researcher considered three educational institutions and 
twenty coaching centers.  
Among the educational institutions a boys' school, a girls' school and a combined (both 
boys' and girls') category school are selected. The institutions are- Government Laboratory 
High School, Agrani Girls' School and New Poltan Line School and College. These three 
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institutions are chosen for various reasons. The reasons are: One of them is government and 
others are non-government schools. Government Laboratory High School and Agrani girls' 
School are renowned in the city but New Poltan Line School and College is unfamiliar. In 
order to get diversified information they are selected.  
Twenty coaching centers are selected from different location of the city. It is very difficult to 
depict the actual statistics of an informal activity like education coaching. However, scanning 
of their advertisement, promotional activities and others unpublished documents, the 
researcher identified that around one hundred and twenty three coaching centers are operating 
in the city. Among them ten academic and ten admission coaching are selected. This sample 
will help the researcher to understand and extract different information related with the 
process of development and size of economy controlled by the coaching centers.   
1.8.3   Selection of the Respondents and Sample Size  
1. Students and their guardians: 240 cases are selected through 480 (240 students and 
240 guardians) questionnaires as this sample size can easily be manageable. Among 
these half are for boys and half are for girls. Half of the students are from class VIII 
and half of them are from class X. The students have been selected from higher class 
(class VIII and class X) so that they can give information properly. Another reason for 
selecting students from this level is that they can understand their needs and they have 
their own views for taking extra education coaching. The guardians are interviewed in 
order to get insight into the subject matter.  
2. Coaching Centers: 20 cases are selected for detailed study. Ten admission coaching of 
different categories and ten academic coaching of different categories are selected. 
Thus the variation will help to provide diversified information about the development 
education coaching as an informal activity. 
3. National level experts: The respondents at the national level were selected from a 
cross section of people attached to the field of education and research. Twenty experts 
are selected. The researcher tries to consider all the stakeholders related to this field.  
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Map 1: Location of Selected Schools
1.8.4   Questionnaire Design   
Questionnaire is designed in four categories to extract data from four levels of respondents.  
First, the questionnaire is designed for the students considering the variables that cover 
information related to the process of getting their involvement to the coaching centre. It also 
seeks to find out the relationship between their results and engagement in the coaching 
centre. The questionnaire is semi-structured in nature.  
Secondly, the questionnaire is designed for the guardians. It covers information related to the 
occupation, monthly income-expenditure and reasons for sending their wards to the coaching 
centre. It seeks to find out that if there would be any relationship between students' family 
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