Michael Stott
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98 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5d ago
Michael Stott’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And those protests culminated then on Monday in a big demonstration where for the first time they managed to call out tens of thousands of young people onto the streets of Delhi to protest against problems in the education system and call for the resignation of the education minister.
I think the thing to explain is that in India, there's an enormous number of young people who are hoping to escape from poverty and get a chance for a better life through a university education and through a place at a coveted medical school or in a government service or in the police service.
And the exams for entry to those institutions are very, very hotly contested.
And students spend years getting coached for them.
Families often borrow money.
to give their children a better chance in those exams.
And what's happened in recent years is that questions leak online and then the exam is cancelled.
And this happened this year with the exam for entrance into India's medical schools.
And this meant enormous anguish for all the students who had spent a great deal of time and money preparing for these exams.
And because it wasn't the first time this had happened, this generated a great deal of anger.
So Modi was quiet for a long time.
And on Thursday, for the first time, he addressed the issue directly and said there would be stringent punishments, more people responsible for leaking exam papers, and that in future there'd be a series of steps to safeguard the interests of students.
But crucially, he didn't give in on the other main demand of the protesters, which was the resignation of the education minister.
Well, the cockroach movement swiftly dismissed Modi's concession, said it wasn't enough and that they would continue protesting until the education minister resigned.
The big question is whether they continue to grow in size and scale, whether they multiply across the country.
We've seen small, limited protests in a few cities so far, but nothing on the scale of what we had in Delhi on Monday.
But there is undoubtedly a lot of frustration among the nation's youth,
over the education system, but also over limited job opportunities.
Wages for graduates have been stagnant for several years.
The job market for graduates is not easy.
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