Mr. Cast said the site's back-to-college section was heavy on features that take advantage of high-speed Internet connections.
According to Judy Diesen, BestBuy.com's vice president for operations, the Web site's back-to-college section — a first for the company — is a response to the abundance of school-specific technology decisions facing students and their parents.
A closed college section is to the rest of the site like a suburban gated community is to a hip downtown scene.
I can't help but think that a college section is appealing because it will keep out the freaks (and pirates) that make YouTube so lively.
In the college section, they are instead called faculties, highlighting the differences in function between consortia and faculties.
Despite having similar names, the special programmes offered in the high school and the college section are different; however, most are closely associated with each other.
The college section's Humanities Programme has a significant percentage of its students going on to study abroad at such universities as Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, MIT, UC Berkeley, Peking University and Tsinghua University.
Secondary 1 (age 13) students first enter the high school section and study there for four years, before proceeding to the college section where they prepare to take the GCE 'A' Levels final examinations.
All students of HCI's high school section also move on automatically to the college section and undertake the 'A' Levels, unless they fail to meet requirements or specifically apply to leave.
The Hwa Chong Institution student council comprises the College Council, High School Council, and the smaller consortium councils, which represent the college section, high school section and the four high school consortia respectively.
Hwa Chong Junior College, now HCI's college section, was established in 1974 at the Bukit Timah campus of The Chinese High School as a separate pre-university education institution, but under the same management board.
