Oh my god! Who could have predicted this? Said no one who has been to a university with a lot of Chinese students.
The entire system around “educating” Chinese students is a scam. They come here, do barely anything and then walk away with a degree. But they pay a lot of money so the universities put up with it, and they do their best by segregating them from the rest of the students so they never had to interact with them, otherwise the illusion might get broken.
This has been going on for years and years. Its totally normal in a public school to get ‘help’ with a university application, plus some great references from people you have never met. If you’re up for it you can also pay someone to do your course work. Winland academy really screwed up being so open about it.
I don’t really see what surprised the BBC about this. There are bigger companies with physical branches across the UK and other countries that not only advertise themselves as an all-in-one application solution but are partnered with the universities they aim to place students in. It’s evidently not considered a problem by universities.
Students also consider it a given that since they’re paying £18,000 to £25,000+ in tuition fees, further hundreds in application fees plus thousands in visa fees, where’s the wrong in paying an extra £300 to £3000 for the application to be dealt with too? Not saying I approve of it, but that’s where the logic comes from.
Students still need to provide the input for personal statements themselves. It’s the translation, styling and proofreading that gets paid for.
If this apparently isn’t seen as fair by universities or the government, then they perhaps could consider not partnering with such services and advising students not to use them.
They’re the same people who cheat in their English tests to be qualified for studying here. I talk to them all the time. Thankfully I can translate it mentally.
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I thought they weren’t supposed to do that?
Get caught, I mean.
Oh my god! Who could have predicted this? Said no one who has been to a university with a lot of Chinese students.
The entire system around “educating” Chinese students is a scam. They come here, do barely anything and then walk away with a degree. But they pay a lot of money so the universities put up with it, and they do their best by segregating them from the rest of the students so they never had to interact with them, otherwise the illusion might get broken.
This has been going on for years and years. Its totally normal in a public school to get ‘help’ with a university application, plus some great references from people you have never met. If you’re up for it you can also pay someone to do your course work. Winland academy really screwed up being so open about it.
I don’t really see what surprised the BBC about this. There are bigger companies with physical branches across the UK and other countries that not only advertise themselves as an all-in-one application solution but are partnered with the universities they aim to place students in. It’s evidently not considered a problem by universities.
Students also consider it a given that since they’re paying £18,000 to £25,000+ in tuition fees, further hundreds in application fees plus thousands in visa fees, where’s the wrong in paying an extra £300 to £3000 for the application to be dealt with too? Not saying I approve of it, but that’s where the logic comes from.
Students still need to provide the input for personal statements themselves. It’s the translation, styling and proofreading that gets paid for.
If this apparently isn’t seen as fair by universities or the government, then they perhaps could consider not partnering with such services and advising students not to use them.
They’re the same people who cheat in their English tests to be qualified for studying here. I talk to them all the time. Thankfully I can translate it mentally.