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> When I was in college, folks from India and other low trust societies would mercilessly cheat on their projects and exams, blatantly helping one another on in
by gs17 3y ago
> When I was in college, folks from India and other low trust societies would mercilessly cheat on their projects and exams, blatantly helping one another on individual works, and the college knew about it and didn't care. When I had brought this up at one point, I was told by a professor that it was a cultural difference that had to be respected .
The reality (speaking from experience) may be that international students are a lucrative market and getting a reputation as being hard on cheating will make them choose to go elsewhere.
- kelipso 3y agoYep, I know for a fact the higher ups tell (heavily imply to) the professors/lecturers to go easy on the undergrad international students with cheating and other behaviors at least in the smaller US colleges.
- guhidalg 3y ago[flagged]
- pverghese 3y agoWhy are you calling for segregation? We have didn't years trying to move the world forward and yet you persist in trying to move backwards
- guhidalg 3y agoWe discriminate tuition based on national (even state!) origin. That's not physical segregation but it has the same result. I'm calling for schools to just create a "international student focused" campus where they can collect all the rich international students, let them party and cheat for 4 years, collect the outrageous tuition, and shield the indigenous students from their bullshit.
- dang 3y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. Fortunately, most of your comments have been fine so this should be easy to fix. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- TeeMassive 3y agoWith the advent of AI and wearable IoT gadgets, the only way for schools to test out their students will be one one one filmed interviews that the students can give to future employers.
- throw9away6 3y agoOral exams are hard to cheat
- BitwiseFool 3y agoIf you're wondering why international students are so lucrative, it is because the majority of them they pay full price for tuition. This is particularly noticeable at state colleges/universities because those institutions have to provide in-state residents a significant discount.
- gs17 3y agoIn my case, it was private, but international students wouldn't be offered as generous scholarships.