Study Shows Young Indians Choose Teaching Over Corporate Jobs

Millennials in India are choosing to utilise their knowledge to teach young students rather than using their skills in a corporate job. The study shows that more than 58% of the teachers are in 20-35 years of age. The work was done by Cuemath, a Bengaluru-based education technology startup, on over 3000 teachers. The revelation points out that there has been an increase in millennials who opt for career as an educator, particularly those who have corporate jobs. Millennials are all those people in the population who were born after 1980. They were the first generation who came of age in the new millenium.

The analysis shows that around 50% of teachers have corporate job experience. The data also shows that there are a majority of people whose first qualifications are ME, M.Tech, M.Com, MBA and PhD (53%) followed by BE, B.Tech etc. (44%). According to Manan Khurma, founder and CEO of Cuemath, a lot of working professionals choose to go for teaching because of the satisfaction the role offers. In fact, the study proves that only 3% have their first qualification as B.Ed, which means that teaching was not their first choice.

The millennial workforce brings with them a lot of advantages to the classrooms like flexible learner-centered models. These teachers have more chances of allowing students to learn at their own pace, according to study.

By: Neha Maheshwari

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