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University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy
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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I've heard how difficult it is to get into and graduate from good Japanese universities. But as far as American universities go, why force somebody who's been reading grad-level literature recreationally to attend every instance of english 101?
Look at most job requirements. Many state degree or equivalent experience. As an example, I'll use military training: a person who's been through backshop or even depot-level military electronics training has been through 9 months or more of school. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, all one class. Military "junior colleges" such as CCAF(Community College of the Air Force) do not often directly translate into equivalent undergrad credit in public or private universities.
In America the requirement is silly (and based on my experience, usually never enforced ^_^ ). A former Airforce backshop avionics or Navy nuclear tech should be required to attend every rudimentary DC electronics class with such challenging problems like serial and parallel resistance with a little norton or thevenin? Prior military please chime in, we'd love to hear about how your education translates into the civillian college world.
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.
You joke, but in all seriousness, I don't know how I can keep hearing about the wonderful efficiency of Japanese schools when this is a clear indicator that their teachers can't even tell them apart. If that's the case generally it goes a long way towards explaining their suicide rate.
I'm not being racist here. Any country can have a poor education system. I wouldn't want to send my school to a U.S. school with metal detectors either!
Here in Aus, we're multicultural but still manage to be quite screwed up. Our gun crime isn't so bad but our suicide rates are up there (or were last time I looked) and we do have racist incidents. At the moment the bashing of Indian exchange students is in our papers and the Indian government and consulate have been involved. We also have the whole "every child must pass primary school" mentality going through our system, which sets children up for massive shock when they hit high school and realise that the wrong answer actually gets marked wrong.
Aren't schools suppose to be a safe nuturing place??
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I was never in the military, but I'll mention that one of the most talented analog designers I've ever met was a USAF veteran. The guy was a total hardware wizard, and he said that he learned it all in USAF radar technician training.
-jcr
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I can confirm this. All my friends: Ichigo Kurasaki, Sailor Moon, Akira, etc. pretty much get to do whatever they want when school lets out.