A lot of people have a lot of hard words for the education system, in terms of policy as well as logistics and outcomes. It’s been like this since Independence under successive governments, especially the obsession with rote learning and examinations. But never has it been embarrassed the way it was in the last few weeks when the centrepiece of the system, examinations, sprang a leak in three directions. Two of these involve the National Testing Agency, set up by the education ministry in N