No, CHEATING is a cultural thing there. Many feel they have the RIGHT to cheat. [bbc.com]
Bullshit. This is BBC's shoddy alarmist reporting. Some random whackjobs saying some stupid bullshit does not mean "many" in the entire country of 1.2 billion humans feel the same way. It is NOT a fucking cultural thing. The culture here is to get marks, and people usually work hard for that. Some thugs in some remote parts may cheat like in the linked article. It is not a widespread phenomenon by any means.
Cheating on university exams produces inferior quality graduates, that only make the system cumbersome and unpleasant.
True. Most graduates out of university here are stupid and un-trained and basically worthless. That is not because of cheating. That is because of bad curriculum, bad testing and a general lack of focus on research. Even the best engineering schools (IITs) have a dismal record in research.
However, there are whole industries that capitalize on this phenomenon. H1B visa mills are just one such industry.
Almost 1 in 3 H1B visas are granted to people who have attained a master's degree from an American institute. So you are saying that Indians are so good at cheating that they cheated in GRE, cheated in the American university they attended, and still got the degree? LOL.
However, there are whole industries that capitalize on this phenomenon. H1B visa mills are just one such industry.
There are always hard crackdowns happening on cheating here. Incidents like these happen once in a while, but they are not prevalent enough to be a big problem. The bigger problem right now is that the entire education imparted in our colleges is absurd, inadequate and favors dumb people. For example, 50% of college seats are reserved for the dumbest of the dumb because hurr durr caste system. It helps nobody, only creates disgruntled people, and reduces the worth of the degree.