Hunkering down: Japan’s higher education sector

For the record, I did not rate Japanese students' "...capacity for hard work as far higher than that of UK students." I have not worked in the higher education sector in the UK. I have no knowledge of UK students. I also did not say that students in Japan would refuse to read 150 pages for homework. My exact words were "they would die", which for me, means they would find it hard-going. The reporter did not check the meaning of my colloquial use of language. The quality of reporting in this article is not great and I was not given the opportunity to check the work before publication. Take a lot of what you read here with a grain of salt. -- Annette Bradford.