Nepal, July 27 -- The integrity of higher education in Nepal faced a digital betrayal on Friday. Within five minutes of the commencement of the Tribhuvan University's Master of Business Studies (MBS) first-semester examination for 'Organisational Behaviour', the question paper was circulating on a WhatsApp group. A teacher known as 'Sulav Sir', later identified as Sandip Singh, shared the paper and subsequently provided a 16-page handwritten solution while the test was still underway. This brazen act of academic fraud allowed at least 35 active members in a group of over 1,000 to discuss answers in real-time.

Friday's paper leak is not an isolated case but rather a symptom of a recurring and systemic issue that has plagued Nepal for deca...