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India: An education scandal years in the making
- Terr_ 2y agoThis article seems... disjointed and incomplete. The Byju bit doesn't become related back to educational policy or outcomes, and then it trails off (at "Need to know") into random India news for the rest of the page.
- alephnerd 2y agoIt was cram schools that were bribing printers to get the answer keys to critical exams. (Cram schools across Asia are big money and often owned by politically connected actors). Basically, the argument the article is making is that computerized testing would bypass that attack vector, and India's proliferation of remote first cram schools like Byju's and Unacademy could act as proctors (sort of like an indigenous Prometrics). > then it trails off (at "Need to know") into random India news for the rest of the page. It's a newsletter (but not as good as the Bloomberg or Economist one). Most business newspapers make a newsletter for a country for a couple years before making a dedicated section (at least this was how China got it's own section in the Economist 15 years ago).