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Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon by fil_a_del_fee_a on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @03:26PM (#13170622)
Serious question from a concerned American..

How much are you learning and more importantly, are you retaining this information? What subjects / topics are you studying?

The reason that I ask, is that I work in IT. If you spent this amount of time devoted to learning a programming language, web design, etc... you would be in an excellent position to work remotely for a company like mine. If you spend 6-9 learning everything under the sun, I think it is kind of a waste.

Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon by s4vi0r on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @03:51PM (#13170864)
Whatever it is they learn/how they learn/etc it seems to be grossly inefficient.

I noticed literally no difference between my Canadian students and Chinese/Korean students as a TA at a top university here, other than the international students being more likely to plagiarize/copy work. Also, the international students were way more likely to be smokers - not sure if that's a cultural thing, or if it's caused by being stressed the fuck out because of the ridiculous education system there.

Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon by argonaut on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:28PM (#13172702)
While I agree with your observations, there is also some element of selection bias. Most Chinese students that are able to make it to the US come from rich families since most internationals don't get financial aid (so maybe they're more likely to be spoiled/entitled).

Also, depending on how "top" your university, it may have been easier for these students to get into your university than the top universities in China (e.g. they have lower test scores than their peers at the top unis in China).

Re:China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon by blacktulip on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @04:06PM (#13171032)
The one and only goal of any and all pre-university education in China is NCEE[1].

NCEE is an exam, which means you get one shot, offline, off books.

Now imagine you need to write a website, with pen and paper, without internet or reference books.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Higher_Education_Entr...