alt Hacker NewsIndia's education sector is a real shit-show. The rot starts at the bottom: students that resort to cheating, the endless question paper leaks of national level examinations, and curricula that are stuck in the past. All these lead to the problem that affects the country's economic and social development: a lack of foundational research in frontier science and technology, where the country is always a follower and never a leader.
Maybe these things are to be expected, given that even the Prime Minister's academic credentials are suspected to be bogus.
> rot starts at the bottom: students that resort to cheating, the endless question paper leaks of national level examinations, and curricula that are stuck in the past. All these lead to the problem that affects the country's economic and social development
What you’re mentioning is purely the results of an economic system that incentivizes everyone to behave in a certain way. Upward mobility is non existent for a billion people and the only way to get a chance to that upward mobility is an arbitrary exam which pretty much seals the fate for the majority of the masses. And we’re not talking about a luxurious living we’re talking about an opportunity to just make a living and avoid abject poverty. And you’re blaming the people for doing whatever it takes? The rot is the system, not the people being forced to use it as it’s designed.