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Some students are from an opposite time zone. Others don't even have a reliable network in their home country. Not allowing the students to come to the country
by henearkr 6y ago
Some students are from an opposite time zone. Others don't even have a reliable network in their home country. Not allowing the students to come to the country hosting their courses is really silly.
- nlitened 6y agoI am sure the privileged kids willing and able to pay 150k USD for university education in US have a very reliable network at home.
- waheoo 6y agoYou severely misunderstand the realities of international students. You're making sweeping generalization about a lot of people you know nothing about.
- nrser 6y agoThe further you get in physical/geopolitical distance from the US the more you invalidate assumptions that many US sites and services make. I've had sites fail because my local time can be one calendar day _ahead_ of theirs... and how could you be doing something in the future? Once you get into regions with a combination of censorship on the foreign-side and aggressive 'security' measures on the US-side (blocking/triggering on IP ranges of entire countries, VPN services, could services, etc... 'cause why would a legit user be coming in through anything like that, right?) then it really gets rough. Generally, to reliably serve a country/region it requires specific expertise, personnel and/or infrastructure. And BTW when I priced out a "reliable" connection in Beijing years ago it was around $1K USD/mo for 10Mb. Not exactly peanuts.
- solarengineer 6y agoFyi, There are parts of the world where money can't buy you steady electricity, safety at home (an especially important point for women and LGBT), reliable internet access.
- henearkr 6y agoFwiw, there are also scholarships.