Similarities exist in both countries: an emphasis on passing exams as the requirement to enter universities; the hours of homework students must complete; the respect given teachers; and the support provided by parents.
"Some hacker from an obscure university in China ate my homework".
I still had a year of university to complete, so I used homework as an excuse for why I couldn't party with friends.
In addition to blaming some teachers, I also blame many of today's supercompetitive parents, who have made up this imaginary link between huge amounts of homework and getting into a better university.
She taught basic skills, gave exercises when the schools didn't assign any homework, and recruited volunteer tutors from the university.
The use of the system over the entire university will facilitate submission and evaluation processes of the homework and will enable the success analysis of the past.
Once past the notoriously competitive entrance exam, a university student faces an easy ride: There is little homework, few reports are required, professors rarely track attendance, and it is almost impossible to flunk out.
But does it explain why my friends in university were required to watch the Big Brother finale as homework?
The University of the People, like other Internet-based universities, would have online study communities, weekly discussion topics, homework assignments and exams.
But one can only wonder how much better the program would have been had Firestone done all his homework and ESPN had stood up to the university.
His company, Blackboard Inc., sells software that enables colleges and universities to put all their essential activities online: course reading, homework assignments, class discussions, tests and lab projects.
