Cheaters in China Winding Up in the Hospital

By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

You may recall last month’s post, “Colleges Fall Behind in High-Tech Race Against Cheaters“, which detailed some of the technology that U.S. students are using to cheat nowadays. U.S. universities aren’t the only ones to have these issues. Chinese students, facing tough university entrance exams, are using the same sorts of techniques … and more, as some of them are winding up in the hospital. Cameras and cell phone blocking are some of the university responses, and it’s the lower-tech methods students are substituting that are proving hazardous to their health.

A student in Wuhan, capital of China’s central province of Hubei, used earphones so small that they slipped into his aural canal and perforated his eardrum, the China Daily newspaper said.

Another student’s earphones required an operation for their removal, the paper said, while an electronic device connected to headphones and strapped to a third student’s body exploded, leaving a bleeding hole in his abdomen. Source: Reuters

We Say: Well, at least China has gone down the cell phone blocking road that U.S. universities haven’t yet. With, as the article indicates, 9.5 million students competing for only 2.6 million openings, it’s small wonder that they are going to such lengths.