Thursday, 8 March 2007

Students cheating their way to University

One in 20 sixth form candidates copy material from the web as a part of their application forms says Ucas (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service).

This widespread cheating is creating real headaches for academia. The application forms are almost wholly filled in online, and concerns are rising about copying and pasting. Ucas's Anthony Maclaran said:
"We take the integrity of applications very seriously and commissioned this work to investigate the potential for screening applications for borrowed material in the future."

2 comments:

Roszs Bif said...

Thanks for your comment on my post about Virgin and blogger - much appreciated, I thought I was going mad!

Hopefully they'll sort it soon . . .

Hermes said...

Its a difficult one when the other network providers have to make changes and not your ISP.