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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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 Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:59 pm Post subject: Fourth suicide at KAIST prompts scholarship changes |
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2934592
KAIST's president is really in the spotlight now. They used to offer scholarships to everyone but they changed recently to offer scholarships only to people who earned above a B average.
I have students begging for grades at my university. I can't imagine what it would have been like at KAIST. Especially since the students there represent the top 1 percent of Korea, and my students getting A's are the ones begging for an A+. Students at the higher levels represent the bulk of my complainers. |
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BoholDiver
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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If this guy caves to the will of a bunch of losers, he will lose my respect eternally.
Whining kids don't want to work hard and want their education for free. No such thing as a free lunch. |
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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| That's a little harsh. I think a lot of these kids are used to failure or maybe I just can't afford it. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Things don't look so good in the South Korean university scene. |
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War Eagle
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| NohopeSeriously wrote: |
| Things don't look so good in the South Korean university scene. |
That's because 82% of high school students go on to college. Then, once they are in college, getting above a B average is easy.
Professors in a lot of Korean universities are afraid of losing their jobs. This was not the case a few years ago because being a university professor meant a job for life and many of them slacked off. Nowadays, due to a demand for higher standards of education, professors must get evaluated often and this includes student evaluations. Well, in an effort to increase student evaluation scores, a lot of professors hand out good grades like candy. It's a you scratch my back and I'll scratch your scenario.
That's why your students who have A's are begging for A+'s. A's just aren't that great and dont set you apart from other students.
Now, this leaves us with a nation where almost ALL of the young people go on to college and graduate with above a B average. WTF? Everyone can't be a doctor, lawyer or CEO, but they all think they can.
Now, to top it all off, when they get out of school, they don't want to accept a job doing "manual" labor. They want that dream office job, because their college degree cant be wasted working in a restaurant. However, the number of these jobs are very limited, leaving 1.3 million young college graduates currently unemployed in Korea. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| �Suh has a very childish and simple idea that if students feel burdened by scholarships based on grades, they would be able to concentrate on studying more,� Woo Hee-jong, professor of the College of Medicine at SNU, wrote on his Facebook page yesterday. �Education focusing on competition only is wrong.� |
Right, I mean why bother giving grades at all?? |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| 6 million won is hilariously cheap compared to school stateside. If kids in the states were as weak and pathetic as your average Korean university student, 50% of university students would be jumping off of buildings and overdosing. |
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Horangi Munshin
Joined: 06 Apr 2003
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Classic case of shift the blame. |
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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Swampfox10mm wrote: |
| That's a little harsh. I think a lot of these kids are used to failure or maybe I just can't afford it. |
Argh! Burned by google voice again. I meant to say they are not used to failure, or maybe they just couldn't afford it. |
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BoholDiver
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada
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My friend told me typical K parents call down their own children when they fail. Call them a loser and whatnot.
They'd better get used to failure. After the fiasco that is high school and between military srrvice, these kids need a gap year culture,
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| Swampfox10mm wrote: |
| That's a little harsh. I think a lot of these kids are used to failure or maybe I just can't afford it. |
Argh! Burned by google voice again. I meant to say they are not used to failure, or maybe they just couldn't afford it. |
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DaHu
Joined: 09 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 7:07 am Post subject: |
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| A scholarship for a B? Where do I sign up?! |
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