PPP MODEL: IN ENHANCEMENT OF QUALITY OF IN-SERVICE TEACHERS

Abstract

Recent time has witnessed the public-private partnership effectively works in the economic field as well as its emergence in the education system by providing infrastructural, support and educational services. Under this, it provides professional services like teachers’ training, quality assessment, student evaluation and other supplementary services. This paper focuses on the programmes run by the private sector as non-government organisations (NGOs) for strengthening In-service teachers and the effectiveness of a workshop conducted by an NGO within the strengthening of In-service teachers. The survey method was adopted and data were collected through interviews and questionnaires. Interviews were analysed by thematic analysis method and questionnaires were statistically analyzed by the chi-square technique, significant at p<.05 level. Agastya International Foundation is one of the NGOs that employs strengthening In-service teachers, which works within the field of Science. Agastya actively engaged in providing academic and technical support in improving the quality of in-service training programmes like workshops, training and science fair. The workshops are very well organised, conceptual, activity-experiment based, effective, resolve teachers' problems, update their knowledge and helpful for teachers in the daily teaching process.

Keywords: PPP model, non-government organisations, in-service teachers program.

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