Shadow education: patterns and scale of private supplementary tutoring in English in secondary education at urban Dhaka in Bangladesh

• Main Authors: Mahmud, Rafsan, Kenayathulla, Husaina Banu
• Format: Article
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
• Subjects: L Education (General); LB Theory and practice of education; PE English
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/21363/; https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2017.1340827

Private supplementary tutoring with an additional fee is generally called shadow education, and this has become a common phenomenon in urban Dhaka, where patterns and scale of tutoring in English have been remarkable in recent years. This study used a mixed-methods approach that included quantitativ...