On Nov 6, 5:53 pm, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 6, 9:52 am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>
> > chuckers <chucker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Nov 5, 4:16 pm, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jStBHnhQGbM
> > > And how is that much different than any other University in Japan?
>
> > Or office, before the bosses show up?
>
> I'm not sure about the bosses - my staff are remarkably active before
> I rock up each day. The complaint the student was making was that most
> of his?/her? classmates were asleep during the actual classes - and
> these are supposedly interactive language classes, not lectures. I can
> understand sleeping through the odd lecture, especially if you can
> watch video footage of the same lecture on demand.
>
> This wasn't at a university, but a language prep school. Almost all of
> these students work all night (illegally), and then sleep in the
> classes during the day. As long as they are physically present in the
> classroom, Immigration doesn't seem to care (whether they care about
> the same people working more than the allowable hours per week is a
> different issue). Neither it would appear does the school.
>

I am sorry, I missed the fact that this was a school for foreigners.
Kind of
hard to tell.

But again, the tertiary level of some schooling in Japan can leave a
lot to be desired.
Or rather, the motivation of some students attending tertiary level in
Japan.