Nope, LS is not what you say it is, at all. I personally know someone who has worked there and s/he mentions that in the name of getting faculty from foreign universities, all LS does is mention how to do freelance work. No course material is well taught, the teachers are themselves graduates from 2015/16 (and I am being very generous here). In case of doubts from the students, all the faculty does is do basic internet search for the responses. Etc. Etc.
Had this been a genuine case of helping students, there wouldn't have been so much angst. The fact is that the Edtech industry has gone from revolutionising and democratising education to becoming absolute frauds, cheating gullible students and young professionals.
The people who get those jobs/internships get it because of their own hard work and skill. Do not snatch away the essence of their hard work by claiming that it was all thanks to Lawsikho.
Same jobs and internships, lol! You are clearly a lawsikho plant, because you keep parroting their tagline that's meant to lure gullible law students in. None of their courses is enough for the students from obscure private law colleges and/or TLCs to get those internships or jobs at T1 firms unless the student is exceptional and has got contacts, in which case they won't need those courses anyway!
Why are people dragging LawSIkho into this? Karti Chidambaram's speech was about Byjus and all the media reports you see are about Byjus. If a new law is enacted then small coaching companies like LawSikho could even be excluded. LawSikho has not done any of the unethical things Byjus is accused of doing. The only "crime" committed by LawSikho is that it is trying to break the NLU monopoly by imparting skills to non-NLU students so that they can get the same jobs and internships. This is the reason for so much hate against LawSikho.
Sarcasm only lol😂 except OP no one is in their right mind to justify actions of Byjus and allow them to function unregulated atleast relating to ethics and fair practices. Be it BJP or Congress, everyone will come in support.
Quote: And why is the government listening to them???????? The rest have said everything to be said. I would just like to say that the Government has not received some mandate from God to be always right. It's their duty to listen to other people's opinions irrespective of the whether the person raising it is the opposition or not and work on it.
BBC has done a story exposing the fraudulent practise of Byju. Next step should be an investigation against CLAT coaching classes, LawSikho, Enhelion etc to see if they are ethical or not.
NLU grads aren't a homogenous quality conscious bunch. [..] Specialised consumer base, double lol! They will take in anyone who wants to join and can pay. [...]
- LawSikho is run by NLU grads and has good, experienced lawyers as faculty. - LawSikho does not cater to everyone like a bazaar, it has a specialised consumer base - LawSikho has made it possible for non-NLU grads to get jobs and internships that would have been out of reach
Byjus have signed up people for a trial class, then shoved down an EMI plan down their throat and when people have tried to cancel subscription have washed off their hands of it. The situation got so worse that Capital Float, Bajaj Finserv etc stopped offering loans for Byju's products due to massive misselling. Read the Ken article about it. Also, this guy is in opposition and BJP frankly doesnt give a damn about all this, all they care about is staying in power and this is more or less a non issue for them. Bhai 4 akshar kyha padh liye free market economy, kuch bhi mat bol, if this had been free market in real people would have sued Byju out of its existence and then some more.
There are so many problems in your post, OP, that I advise you to please read some books. Start with something on constitution law to get an idea of how a democracy is supposed to work and what the constitutional scheme of things is.
And that's a blame you can put on Congress - not ensuring quality of law schools is good enough so we dont have whatever it is you posted.
You’re just wrong about this. These Ed tech guys prey on scared parents and students and intimidate them into taking loans for courses that do nothing at all. Even byjus/ white hat jr have been caught lying about what their courses/ students are able to do - and having a business model that takes advantage of uneducated scared parents.
The internet is a wonderful thing, and it’s wonderful that people from all over the world can learn things through it- but more often than not they don’t need Ed tech middle men to do so. Most of the good course work that is online I’ve seen as an educator has been made available for free. How could you claim that places like law sikho offer quality legal education and at the same time agree that none of their faculty would meet qualifications to be hired by universities? Would law sikho be open to an independent audit to ensure their claims are in the broad realm of truth even? If nehruvian socialism means that greedy immoral ed tech businessmen are held accountable, and that those students and parents already abandoned by our public education system are not taken advantage of- sign me the hell up. And not all of us voted for that awful awful man either.
Yes ofcourse byjus is doing amazing service to the nation. They should be declared the national startup and their model of how they treat employees and customers should be followed by every other edtech in the nation. We are lucky to have byjus in India.
You parrot the phrase free market in every alternate sentence without really being aware of what it means. India never had and still doesn't have a free market in the true sense. It's mostly crony capitalism now, which harms the consumer in the end. Even the UPA goverment post 2000 mostly facilitated that. If schools and universities are all garbage, then pray where are these ed tech companies getting their teaching resources from? Your comment about access seems to be straight out of the pages of one of their predatory brochures, which has little connect with reality. You didn't really vote Modi to keep the market free, so please stop lying to yourself. To start with, free market would have meant your legal education should have cost a lot more than it did. Free market also presupposes symmetric information and the Indian market in any sector does not even approach that goal anytime in the near future. I'm not saying that I agree with Chidambaram's speech, but your points of objection are very juvenile.
Links below. It seems what started it all was a speech by Karti Chidambaram of the Congress in Parliament last month, where he demanded that the edtech industry be regulated and complained that their prices are too high. Frankly, Chidambaram's speech is a crock of shit and exemplifies the socialist mentality of the Congress. Edtech companies are doing superb job in a country where most schools and colleges are garbage (thanks to decades of Congress rule) and where Covid has made physical classes impossible. Today, the free market and tech makes it possible for a village boy to get access to quality coaching for CLAT or IIT JEE online. WTF does the Congress have a problem with it? Chidambaram says these companies "force" people to buy courses. LMAO. It's a free market, there is no force. What next, UGC NET requirement and OBC reservation for Byju's and LawSikho faculty? Or 50% luxury tax for their consumers???? Why does the Congress have a problem with everything good for the country? Do they want us to go back to the dark days of Nehruvian socialism? And why is the government listening to them???????? We voted for Modi to end socialism and license raj, not increase it. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
https://lawsikho.com/success-stories
But please go on, because the company seems to keep doing better and better.
Had this been a genuine case of helping students, there wouldn't have been so much angst. The fact is that the Edtech industry has gone from revolutionising and democratising education to becoming absolute frauds, cheating gullible students and young professionals.
And I don't think you understand how free market works........don't be like Pelosi
The rest have said everything to be said. I would just like to say that the Government has not received some mandate from God to be always right. It's their duty to listen to other people's opinions irrespective of the whether the person raising it is the opposition or not and work on it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-58951449
- LawSikho is run by NLU grads and has good, experienced lawyers as faculty.
- LawSikho does not cater to everyone like a bazaar, it has a specialised consumer base
- LawSikho has made it possible for non-NLU grads to get jobs and internships that would have been out of reach
Also, this guy is in opposition and BJP frankly doesnt give a damn about all this, all they care about is staying in power and this is more or less a non issue for them.
Bhai 4 akshar kyha padh liye free market economy, kuch bhi mat bol, if this had been free market in real people would have sued Byju out of its existence and then some more.
And that's a blame you can put on Congress - not ensuring quality of law schools is good enough so we dont have whatever it is you posted.
The internet is a wonderful thing, and it’s wonderful that people from all over the world can learn things through it- but more often than not they don’t need Ed tech middle men to do so. Most of the good course work that is online I’ve seen as an educator has been made available for free.
How could you claim that places like law sikho offer quality legal education and at the same time agree that none of their faculty would meet qualifications to be hired by universities? Would law sikho be open to an independent audit to ensure their claims are in the broad realm of truth even?
If nehruvian socialism means that greedy immoral ed tech businessmen are held accountable, and that those students and parents already abandoned by our public education system are not taken advantage of- sign me the hell up. And not all of us voted for that awful awful man either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVPE-fHJCEM
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/exploitation-of-students-govt-to-bring-policy-to-regulate-edtech-companies-7895001.html
https://www.theweek.in/news/biz-tech/2022/01/13/indian-edtech-start-ups-launch-consortium-for-self-regulatation.html
https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/karti-chidambaram-questions-practices-edtech-platforms-byju-s-158718