Students, don’t turn to essay mills, just learn to write a better paper.
The second annual International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating is an attempt by universities around the world to raise awareness about students who hire others to do their work.
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Across Canada and around the world, thousands of students are paying cash for good grades - in tests, essays and even PhD theses. On Oct. 18, 2017, universities globally are fighting back.
Managing the newest form of academic deceit will require hard work from established academia and a renewed commitment to integrity from university communities.
If academics are willing to steal others’ ideas and concepts, what’s stopping their students from doing the same?
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For every student who intentionally steals others’ work and passes it off as her own, there are ten who don’t yet know how to build academic knowledge. They need our help, not condemnation.
University in your pocket?
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The way schools and universities teach and test has to keep up with the way young people are processing information.
It’s impossible to compare student work against a database of sources because each pay-for plagiarised assignment is a bespoke creation.
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While Four Corners shed some much-needed light on long-standing problems in higher education, these problems aren’t reserved for international students.
News of Tanveer Ahmed’s dismissal from The Australian has put plagiarism back in the headlines.
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The advent of digital media allows anyone to be a social commentator.
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In the public eye, an expert, writing for newspapers and magazines or speaking on television, used to be considered almost infallible. The public rarely challenged their words and considered their analysis…
One sure-fire way to make sure your students are completing their assessment for themselves is to make them perform practical work exercises rather than write essays.
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The essay, as the primary form of assessment, should be dead. This is the kind of comment that terrifies academics everywhere – but it is an idea that I think we all need to consider. The “news” that there…
Research undertaken on beagles and the contraceptive pill in the 1970s was found to be fabricated - there never were any beagles..
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There are a few things you might need for an experiment involving beagles and the side effects of contraceptive pills. Animal research ethics aside, beagles might be a good start. Sadly, one researcher…
Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University & Visiting Research Professor in Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Rhodes University
Associate Professor, Werklund School of Education and Educational Leader in Residence, Taylor Institute of Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary