Your STEM degree and then masters dictates how people perceive you, provide marriage offers, respect you and a huge swathe of other social niceties.

Its what creates our student suicides, competitions to place kids in a strategic school to jump start their STEM education.

Its the root for tution/cram classes that start 2 years before the final exam and absorb vacation and free time.

Its the cause of having a huge amount of useless engineering schools that just print out degrees after you pay a hefty fee.

Further you have non-STEM people doing STEM. They don't care about the subject and never will. For them slope is a pointless concept.

The teachers are over worked and have to correct a million different papers. On top of that since there is finally a national level test - so people just start teaching the test.

This generates tonnes of unmotivated rote learning. I've seen a student draw a circuit diagram, by starting at the lower left corner and sketch upwards to the right.

He may as well have been forging a picture from memmory.

Its frustrating.

With regards to disruption. I know of several pushes to disrupt the industry.

Someone I know is starting an extensive skillling course targeted at slums - the aim is to train plumbers, electricians and secretaries.

Education had also recently been the flavor of the month for investment purposes (I think early in the year). Right now I don't think thats so popular.

At the end of the day though, most of the education disruptions seem to ignore the lessons of education - namely that the fundamental unit of chaos in society is human beings.

Startups balk at this and then try to solve the easier problem of matching the requirements of an education board and their metrics of learning.