Bangkok university makes students wear anti-cheating helmet during mid-term exams

[JO1973]

Funny how this is just accepted here. Could you imagine the reaction in the West if this was even suggested? Classic.

[metisdead]

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[NoshowJones]

How stupid can you get.

Space the bleeding desks out, <deleted>

I'm not going to disagree on the absurdity of these things, but take a look at the typically overcrowded classroom in the picture and tell me how they're going to make more space between desks. Did you notice that the desks going along the wall are actually touching the wall?

I think it's the overcrowding that makes cheating easy for Thai students (and classes inefficient).

Besides, is this fair? The student's parents, grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents....and so on got through their schooling by cheating unchallenged, so why should the rules change now?

There is a lack of intelligence among even the best educated people in this country.

[NoshowJones]

Whoever came up with this idea is probably patting themselves on the back but they are fools if they think copying is the only way students cheat. Copying is just the most obvious way.

If they are caught cheating then what happens? Nothing.

If you have a Farang teacher who does not know much Thai, then the students just ask each other for the answers. I know from experience from when I was a teacher.

[HeijoshinCool]

Why would you bother trying to prevent one student who does not know the answers (example: Who was Hitler?), from the other students who don't know the answers?

[NoshowJones]

Whoever came up with this idea is probably patting themselves on the back but they are fools if they think copying is the only way students cheat. Copying is just the most obvious way.

If they are caught cheating then what happens? Nothing.

I had students, mostly male, who handed me blank sheets of paper after an exam, and I will bet when their education was finished, they still graduated.

[NoshowJones]

Why would you bother trying to prevent one student who does not know the answers (example: Who was Hitler?), from the other students who don't know the answers?

There is always a very few students who do know the answers, and some teachers who are non Thai speaking Farangs.

[richard10365]

Embarrassing!

[Ricardo]

Surely this is a cunning & sophisticated electronic-device, from the same people, who sold the Thai police & military & government those wonderful bomb-detectors ?

Edited August 15, 2013 by Ricardo

[spermwhale]

Dunce caps would be more appropriate.

[frankold]

Has it really been 12 months since last April?

Wait until the western media get hold of this.. lol

[marell]

How unbelievably absurd. It looks like one of those riddles where you try to guess what's going on...or maybe a 'think up a caption for the photo' contest. If this is the best they can do to combat cheating then just screw it and go to open book exams.

[ToddWeston]

Well hmmmm I was invited to be an invigilator at a school that will remain nameless a few years back and I wish these were in place then. I often think about that experience and wonder with the smart phone technology now one almost needs 1:1 student /invigilator ratio these days . There were 4 of us and we were rather busy.

[PoodMaiDai]

Everyone knows the kids write the answers and cheats on their skin anyway.

[mrfill]

This year's must-have fashion accessory.

I expect copies will be on sale at all good stores soon

[bigbamboo]

Rumour has it these anti cheating devices are called 'Oakies'.

Can't imagine why.

[Halion]

This does not auger well for the upcoming generation of political leaders,businessmen and administrators.

By inhibiting their natures to cheat,then how will they develope their skills for leadership and elitism.

[trogers]

They are seated too close to each other.

This photo should highlight the inadequacy of space even in institutes of higher learning. How much more inadequate are space in general schools?

And this government wants to borrow Bt20 trillions on vague water management projects but not a satang to improve and expand on educational facilities.

[hellodolly]

All ready we are seeing results from the Pad's

[bangon04]

This has to be one of coconuts satire stories.

At first glance it seems even beyond what NotTheNation could come up with in their wildest dreams......

AMAZING THAILAND...ROTFLMAO

[bangon04]

This year's must-have fashion accessory.

I expect copies will be on sale at all good stores soon

Yes they need to practise exam technique with their expensive private tutors

[yourauntbob]

I love it, should be standard issue in Thailand

[TomTao]

About time something was done about the cheating, next place for the new anti-cheating device is the assistant teacher exam.

[BuddyPinkham]

How stupid can you get.

Space the bleeding desks out, <deleted>

I agree but by looking at that room, it is over packed with students (which is an every day occurrence in schools here), there is no way to spread them out any more.

[Songhua]

We've had the white masks and now we have the paperheads.

[xen]

It is a class of cocker spaniels dreaming they are in a room full of young ladies.

[sirchai]

The device, which resembles horse blinders made out of computer paper, was unofficially unveiled on an alumni Facebook page.

Some of these students didn't feel a difference, as they always have to act like they wear horse blinders and their lectures horse shoes.-

Edited August 15, 2013 by sirchai

[AleG]

How stupid can you get.

Space the bleeding desks out, <deleted>

I agree but by looking at that room, it is over packed with students (which is an every day occurrence in schools here), there is no way to spread them out any more.

Then have even rows do Exam A and odd rows do Exam B, as they did in my high school some times. Those things are demeaning to the students and speak very ill of the quality of teaching in that institution.

[culicine]

The pieces of paper will conveniently cover an earpiece connected to an electronic device, anyway...won't take students long to figure that out, or some other ingenious way of cheating....anything but actually studying!!

[cheeryble]

Surely only in Thailand and the Vatican would people agree to make themselves look this stupid.