“Tracey Bretag is annoyed when the media focus on plagiarism by international students because failures of academic integrity are much larger than that …” (more)
[Stephen Matchett, The Australian, 13 February]
“The internet is awash with people offering to write essays for students. Should you regard them as a service or a scam? …” (more)
[Maddy Potts, Guardian, 6 February]
“Though much in the news today, scientific misconduct goes back at least as far as the ancient Greeks, according to an essay in The Nation by Charles Gross. The astronomer Ptolemy of Alexandria, Gross reports, may have pinched unacknowledged work by an earlier researcher …” (more)
[Beryl Benderly, Science Careers Blog, 23 January]
“Students who are aware that their work will be checked by plagiarism-detection software are just as likely to cheat as those who are not, a study suggests …” (more)
[Claire Shaw, Times Higher Education, 19 January]
“Back in 2005 I did an evil, evil thing. Discovering the proliferation of websites where student plagiarists could copy essays, I wrote a Trojan horse paper about the Magna Carta and seeded it on a few plagiarism sites …” (more)
[College Misery, 27 December]
“Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. PISA series by Barry Hennessy. Reporter: Sinéad Burke. Barry Hennessy concludes his series about the PISA test by drawing together some of the voices who have been heard during the series …” (mp3)
[Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM, 23 November]
“Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. PISA series by Barry Hennessy. Reporter: Sinéad Burke. On this programme, Professor Thomas S Dee from the University of Virginia, discussed the research he conducted with Professor Brian Jacob from the University of Michigan on the topic of student plagiarism at college level …” (mp3)
[Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM, 14 November]
“Where are students finding the materials they plagiarise in their papers? According to a new study, Wikipedia tops the list for both secondary and college students. But as a category, encyclopaedia sites are among the least popular sources …” (more)
[David Nagel, University World News, 6 November]
“An arms race between instructors and students continues to escalate. The prized ammunition? Plagiarism detection software. Turnitin, plagiarism software released in 1996 and used by more than 10,000 universities and 20 million students, is now common in higher education …” (more)
[Elizabeth Murphy, Inside Higher Ed, 12 September]
“… I wonder sometimes whether we are allowing our fears of plagiarism to overwhelm us. Clearly plagiarism is wrong, but it is not life-threatening. Students who plagiarise may be hiding the tracks of their inattentiveness or, occasionally, modest talents; but they will have spent at least a little while opening their minds to the materials they are abusing …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 10 September]
“A store clerk may think it unnecessary to watch out for shoplifters because antitheft technology does the job for them. Now that the plagiarism-detection software Turnitin is ubiquitous in higher education, professors could adopt the same mentality when it comes to actively fighting cheating, argues David E Harrington …” (more)
[Marc Parry, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 September]
“A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows plagiarism in college is on the rise. The survey, called The Digital Revolution and Higher Education, asked 1,055 college presidents from two- to four-year schools, private and public for their thoughts on how digital technology has impacted college …” (more)
[Kayla Webley, Time, 31 August]
“A faculty panel has substantiated a ‘pattern of plagiarism’ on the part of a tenured University of Utah political scientist, but in a split decision declined to recommend firing him or revoking his tenure. That lifeline was severed, however, by a senior administrator who overruled the panel, known as the Consolidated Hearing Committee, and fired Bahman Bakhtiari …” (more)
[Brian Maffly, University World News, 21 August]
“Plagiarism is making us crazy. No, the mere thought of plagiarism is making us crazy. Collectively, as a professoriate, we’re obsessed with it …” (more)
[Rob Jenkins, Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 August]
“Panagiotis G Ipeirotis has taken down the controversial blog post, but the debate is raging on without the original material. Ipeirotis, a computer scientist who teaches at New York University’s Stern School of Business, wrote a post on his blog last week called ‘Why I will never pursue cheating again’. In it, he told the story of how he had found that about 20% of a 100-person class had plagiarised – and described the fallout from his accusations …” (more)
[Scott Jaschik, Times Higher Education, 25 July]
“A New York University professor’s blog post is opening a rare public window on the painful classroom consequences of using plagiarism-detection software to aggressively police cheating students. And the post, by Panagiotis Ipeirotis, raises questions about whether the incentives in higher education are set up to reward such vigilance …” (more)
[Marc Parry, Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 July]
“Scientists in Germany convinced Silvana Koch-Mehrin to step down from the research committee of the European Parliament. She briefly joined the committee earlier in the week – after losing her PhD due to plagiarism …” (more)
[David Levitz, Deutsche Welle, 26 June]
“Students cheat because they do not understand university standards. Rachel Dearlove argues that it is the role of the institution to simply and clarify its message …” (more)
[Guardian Professional, 17 June]
“I first thought of doing a piece on stealing intellectual property when I started noticing my words being used without credit in others’ articles and blogs months back. I know that when information seeps into one’s mind and becomes knowledge, it is sometimes impossible to trace the origin of an idea or thought. But when I see large chunks of my sentences literally copied and spliced into another’s work then I know it was no accident …” (more)
[Matthew Tuttle, Guardian Higher Education Network, 6 June]
“The bad news keeps coming for the disgraced former German defense minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, a once-rising star in his country’s conservative party. On Wednesday the University of Bayreuth published the full report of its investigation into plagiarism in his 2006 doctoral dissertation in law …” (more)
[Aisha Labi, Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 May]
