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Tag: cheating

UK universities warned about rise in student cheating

21st May 2018Edwin Audland

UK universities have this week been warned about an imminent rise in cases of contract cheating. Concerns about student cheating have been raised over the last month by government officials, national news sources, and individuals both inside and outside the Higher Education framework. Daniel Sokol, a former Oxford University student and lecturer who is now […]

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Cheating at UK’s top universities soars by 40%

4th May 2018Carla Fuentes Lopez

The number of reported cases of academic misconduct involving students at top UK universities has noticeably increased in the last three years. Experts have been critical, claiming that universities are disregarding the issue. Figures compiled by The Guardian indicate that the number of incidents of cheating rose by 40%, from 2,640 in the 2014-15 academic […]

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Athletics: What are we going to do about drug cheating?

10th August 201411th August 2014Ruth Akinradewo

  Last summer, within a few days of each other, some of the biggest names in athletics tested positive for banned drugs. They included Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell, respectively the joint-second and third fastest men ever, and double 200m Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown. The news came as a big shock to the world of […]

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Is cheating really a bad thing in our children?

25th April 2013Mirela Ivanova

A recent BBC study showed that eight-to sixteen year old children see little wrong with cheating due to a ‘win-at-all-costs’ culture imposed by their friends and parents. Over a third of the 1,002 questioned said they felt no remorse when winning by cheating and a quarter thought their teammates would cheat if they could get […]

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