Nitin Vijay: Indian students have a better scientific temperament

Nitin Vijay, Founder and MD of Motion Education Pvt Ltd, discusses the education sector's changes, difficulties, and potential in the aftermath of the Corona outbreak, with a focus on Kota's Coaching Culture.

Born and brought up in Kota, he received a degree in Engineering from IIT and preparing young talent for JEE, NEET, and other competitive examinations since 2003. He preferred to help students with Physics coaching over high paying jobs in MNCs to pursue his dream of making quality education in India both accessible and affordable.

“During the breaks, I thought of giving it a try, but teaching students and making sure that the students grasp what you’re teaching, are two different things. It is not about knowledge; it is about how you deliver the knowledge. So, I taught in the first year of my college and by God’s grace, I got a tremendous response,” he says.

Today, Nitin is synonymous with success in Kota’s coaching corridors. Under his unflinching commitments and avid leadership, Motion Education is growing leaps and bounds in Kota (Rajasthan) and its sprawling branches in 42 different cities across India. He is one of the most experienced faculties at Motion Education, training young minds for perfection in physics and making them ready for the toughest exams in India. Till now, more than 250 thousand students have been benefitted from his expertise in Physics. 

Apart from quality institutions, we must adopt cutting-edge technologies to make India ‘Vishvaguru’ in the education sector. In this realm, the self-made entrepreneur has devised, MyBizKid, a unique online business learning programme for kids aged between 8-16 years. He felt that kids need a different approach to understand something, especially when they are taught about subjects of a much higher level.

To fill this gap, Mr Nitin Vijay conceptualised, MyBizKid, an online MBA program for kids, which not only prepare them for owning a business but also sharpens knowledge and soft skills required to ensure success in whatever field they ultimately choose. This programme is recently launched in Jaipur and it’s getting a marvellous response.

 It’s all about deliberation

In the first year, his father told him that it should not affect his studies. His father threw a challenge and asked him to have a job apart from teaching and do B.Tech with honours. He accepted the challenge and worked 15-16 hours daily. After passing out from college, he got a job with IBM and then a job in the coaching industry; he chose this field to prove himself to his father. 

“When I started a coaching institute, we did not have money. We are from a middle-class family. I started with only Rs 10,000 that I saved from coaching I used to give during my graduation days. Initially, we cleaned the institute ourselves, as we didn’t have enough money for peons. We had to face other challenges as well, such as the environment was not good in Varanasi, so I stopped coaching there and came to Kota,” he says.

To bring the organization to this level needed hard work as Kota already had many bigger names. “To compete without money back-up was tough. I was only 23 years old, and to have faculty much older than you, was one of the difficult tasks. I did not have a business background, and no one trusted me. My habit of working long hours paid off,” he informs.

Need for customized education

Most have realized the importance of the coaching industry. School education and the coaching industry are two different things; it is like the difference between a hospital and a specialized hospital for cancer. One needs to understand this difference. Nitin Vijay suggests better collaborations between public and private institutions for optimum utilisation of government resources and expertise of the private sector.

In addition, Nitin says, “Around 20-25 years ago, every city had teachers who used to teach inpidually in their homes. Then some people started to give structure to this mode, and that’s how coaching institutes evolved. Before COVID, everything has gone well. Now, the problem is not the content, but what should be given to a particular student; education needs to be customized. We need to identify their mistakes and weaknesses, give solutions accordingly.”

In pursuit of technological prowess

Technology is helping the industry to identify the weaknesses of inpidual students says Nitin. “AI and machine learning will help analyze the student's weakness from their online inputs and responses. The best thing that happened during the pandemic is that we have evolved to know what we have to do in the coming ten years. A perfect combination of human intervention along with technology will help the coaching industry a lot in the future,” he added.