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University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy

Posted by timothy on from the give-me-lobster-and-I-won't-skip-dinner dept.

Norsefire writes "A Japanese University is giving away iPhones to its students to use the phones' GPS functionality to catch students who skip classes. The University claims students currently fake attendance by having other students answer for them during rollcall, they also said that while this can be abused by giving other students the phone, they are much less likely to do this due to the personal information, such as email, a phone generally contains."

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  1. Re:There is always an easier solution... by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 5, Funny

    I skipped tons of classes during my undergrad degree and this enabled me to actually assignments that I wouldn't have otherwise had time for.

    Congrats on your engineering degree. I hope that those skipped English classes don't interfere with your technical writing ;)

  2. Nice Going, Japan! by TheABomb · · Score: 5, Funny

    If "Having other students answer roll call for them" is an indetectible method of circumventing the rollcall procedures, then Japanese professors are just playing into the West's "All Asians Look Exactly Alike" stereotype. Way to go, Nihon.

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