October 29, 2006
'Education Stays Home'
Outsourcing doesn’t work every time, everywhere. Recently, the New York City Department of Education virtually prohibited US companies from hiring teachers from other countries. The main reason cited was that it was not possible to undertake their background checks in foreign states. For quite some time now, a controversy had been raging about whether US companies can employ teachers in other countries to tutor American children.
Given the huge shortage of teachers in the country, it seemed like a logical next step. The companies planning distant learning had argued that since the student and teacher do not come into contact, do not talk with each other and as everything is done on computers, the background checks are unnecessary. Dnaindia.com reports:
But the officials did not agree as the rules provided that teachers must give their finger prints and social security numbers, the latter which only American educators can give. As a result, the New York authorities cancelled the $2 million a year contract of a Texas-based Indian American owned company Socratic Learning Inc, which, the Educations Department said had employed 250 teachers in India and was expected to tutor some 2,000 children.
Read more: NY dept prohibits US firms from outsourcing teaching
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