Computer education in privately managed schools.

• Many privately managed institutions which are mostly located in the urban areas do provide basic computer education to the students. The scope and extent of computer education provided in the privately run schools differ from school to school. Most of the small schools in this category mainly use the computers for teaching fundamentals of computers or playing ordinary games by the children. Most of them do not have internet facilities. The computer related infrastructure in these schools for the use and implementation of computer based education is also not the same. Some international and corporate schools which collect very high rates of fees from the students provide electronic interactive white boards with computer based educational software from companies like the Educomp, Teachnext, digiclass, smartech etc. In some other private schools where these companies provide the hardware and software for teaching called smart classes, charge around Rs.100 per month per student extra from the students in addition to the normal fees of the school. 

• Some of the schools have provided their own computers, projectors, LCD TVs and have developed their own PowerPoint lessons based on the text books used by their school students. I know one school run by the Holy Mary Children's Educational Society at Ferozguda in Hyderabad city of Andhra Pradesh which provides all these facilities from LKG to X class. The school charges a nominal fee of about Rs.500 to Rs.700 per month which includes the fees charged for all these facilities in this school. The school has a network of about 35 computers supported by the LCDs TVs and overhead projectors. All the computers in the computer lab and classes are networked to one another. So there are some schools in India like the one I have mentioned which provide these facilities on a no loss no profit basis. The idea of education for such schools is not business which many of the modern private schools have indulged in.