Catégorie: Déontologie
Are university exams inherently unfair?
B y Rozina Sabur . University exams are refreshingly open-ended compared with A-levels, says Warwick undergraduate Rozina Sabur – but does anyone actually know how they are marked? Like many pupils, I found that A-levels restricted creativity and encouraged
replica...
Does the title 'university' need more protection?
Reducing red tape around use of the word university will only exacerbate the problem of bogus universities and colleges, says Jayne Rowley .
In February 2013 the Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) published its Company and Business Names Consultation document as...
La Formation dans le Rapport 2011-2012 de la Mission interministérielle de vigilance et de lutte contre les dérives sectaires (Miviludes)
Après avoir examiné, les années précédentes, la
situation des mineurs au regard du risque de dérives sectaires, puis les
dangers de nature sectaire qui peuvent surgir de certaines pratiques de
santé, la Miviludes évalue, dans ce...
The global brain race – Robbing developing countries
B y Philip G Altbach . The rich world is worrying about skills shortages, especially at the
upper levels of their economies. The causes are many – such as a
‘demographic cliff’ in Japan and some European...
The CBIE launches its new Code of Ethical Practice
The Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) launches its new Code of Ethical Practice. This new revision has been produced to better respond to today’s societies and situations.
The Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE)
is the national voice...
Frankreich: Großrabbiner stürzt über Plagiatsaffäre
Der französische Großrabbiner Gilles Bernheim legt sein Amt
nieder. Er hatte zugegeben, für seine Werke die Texte von mehreren
Schriftstellern kopiert zu haben. Damit nicht genug: Offenbar hatte er
auch seinen akademischen Grad in Philosophie nur erfunden.
Der...
Deux Ou Trois Choses Que Je Sais De Lui
By UD . It takes guts to be a high-profile moral - nay, spiritual - leader and a plagiarist. Ask Richard Lan d . Given the likelihood of capture, you need to have that Elmer Gantry, je m'en fo us ,
caution to the winds, borderline-psycho thing. You need to have
...
Adding Insult to Plagiary?
By Tom Bartlett . Colin Purrington wrote a funny, helpful guide about designing scientific posters .
It has loads of practical tips (don’t make it too long, use a nonserif
font for titles, etc.) and jokes about the mating habits of cute red
pandas. The guide has been...
Universities in crackdown on 'cut and paste culture'
By Graeme Paton . The number of students caught cheating in university essays has more than halved following a major crackdown on the “cut and paste culture”, it emerged today. New figures show that eight per cent of work submitted by...
Quand les professeurs utilisent Wikipédia pour élaborer leurs cours
Une étude révèle que les enseignants américains utilisent des outils numériques dans leurs salles de classe, et qu'ils ont de plus en plus tendance à consulter l'encyclopédie en ligne pour chercher des informations et "obtenir le...
Do students understand plagiarism?
By Rebecca Ratcliffe . Instances of plagiarism appear to be on the rise. Are universities offering students enough advice about cheating? In a world of Wikipedia and internet-based essay-writing companies, it's never been easier for students to plagiarise their work. But as German...
From Academic Integrity to Responsibility (FAIR) project
Academic honesty education and plagiarism prevention
Project summary: The FAIR project is a collaborative project between the Centre for the Study of Higher Education staff at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning and staff at the School of Population Health. Within this...
Plagiarism problems on campus: where have I heard that before?
By Paul Jump . An essay-writing company has strongly denied that there is any inconsistency in its owner writing a campus novel that satirises the falling standards and toleration of cheating he claims to be rife at "modern" British universities.
The eponymous hero of...
Plagiate bleiben in Unibibliotheken stehen
Wer abschreibt, verliert seinen Titel – so lautet die Regel deutscher Unis. In den Bibliotheken bleiben die Arbeiten stehen. Mit gutem Grund, sagen Bibliothekare.
Unter der Signatur PL 625 G985 steht im Lesesaal der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Bibliothek der...
Fraud in the admissions office: what to look for
By Allen Ezell, retired FBI Agent. Dishonest acts by persons in positions of trust in academia are few and far between, but when they do occur, they send shock waves throughout the profession. Disclosure of internal fraud at an institution affects the good name of that institution, and it...
A plague of plagiarism
Following academic and non-academic news from around the world, one could be forgiven for thinking that plagiarising one’s way through a PhD programme has to be one of the easiest things to do and even a pre-requisite for a political career in education .
Now, the...
Coursera Adds Honor-Code Prompt in Response to Reports of Plagiarism
By Jeffrey R. Young . Leaders of Coursera, an upstart company offering free online courses
by professors at well-known universities, this week added a feature
designed to curb incidents of student plagiarism on homework
assignments.
The move comes just days after an article in The...
Plagiarism controversy raises questions over academic integrity
B y Suluck Lamubol . Controversy over plagiarism in the PhD thesis of Supachai Lorlowhakarn,
director of Thailand’s National Innovation Agency, or NIA, has
highlighted concerns over academic integrity and a widespread culture of
plagiarism. Bangkok’s...
Dozens of Plagiarism Incidents Are Reported in Coursera's Free Online Courses
By Jeffrey R. Young. Students taking free online courses offered by the startup
company Coursera have reported dozens of incidents of plagiarism, even
though the courses bear no academic credit. This week a professor
leading one of the so-called Massive Open Online Courses posted a...
Studie offenbart Schummel-Kultur an deutschen Unis
Spicken, plagiieren, fälschen: Eine Studie erhebt erstmals Daten zum Schummeln im Studium. Danach täuschen vier von fünf Studenten. Fast nie fliegt der Schwindel auf.
Schummeln gehört an der Uni zum Alltag. Der Spickzettel unter der Sitzbank, die Hausarbeit aus dem...

