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17.08.2007: New Anti-cheating Body To Push For 'honour Codes'
The Times Higher Education Supplement August 17, 2007 New anti-cheating body to push for 'honour codes' Phil Baty Pg. 40 No. 1807 553 words Higher Education Integrity Service will help to tackle disparities in policy and penalties. Phil Baty reports. A new service dedicated to helping academics fight the rise of student plagiarism will open next month. The Higher Education Integrity Service will be run jointly by the Higher Education Academy and the Joint Information Syste
At What Cost?
Peter Luscombe's classroom is a dying breed: a technology-free zone. No iPods, no cell phones, no Internet -- just a bunch of students, a teacher and books. "I tell them they can use the book, their brain, and nothing else," Luscombe, an English teacher of 22 years, says in the teacher's lounge at Lucas secondary school in London, Ont.. Not so in Joy Hunter's classroom, where Grade 12 English students are sitting in a computer lab, looking for videos online to go with a novel they're re
Computer Program Helps Unis Catch 1300 Cheating Students
Hundreds of WA university students have been caught cheating in exams and plagiarising course work. More than 1300 students have been nabbed trying to pass off other people's work as their own since January 2006, documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show. Academics say it is impossible to know how many other students may be cheating on assignments - ghost-written ones were the hardest to detect. Penalties for plagiarism can include suspension, loss of mark
Facing Up To Internet Cheats
THE JOURNAL (Newcastle, UK) BYLINE: By Graeme Whitfield, The Journal SECTION: EDUCATION SCHOOLS, Pg. 1 LENGTH: 1019 words After private schools called for GCSE coursework to be scrapped to deter internet cheats, education correspondent Graeme we look at how widespread plagiarism has become in the classroom. ********** From passing notes in class to copying the clever kid's homework, cheating in schools is nothing new. Teachers have been trying to stop children cheating for almo