Date published: 2008/10/31
The BBC says:
Almost half of students admitted to plagiarism in a poll carried out by a students' newspaper at the University of Cambridge.
The Varsity newspaper reported that students admitted to copying material found on the internet and submitting it as their own.
The survey also claimed that only one in 20 students had been caught.
The University of Cambridge says that it has policies in place to prevent this serious disciplinary offence.
Yet another meaningless poll (it was not random, so not scientific). But any story that reflects badly on universities (in particular Oxbridge) of course has to be given plenty of press coverage. On the other hand, since it is often difficult to detect and even harder to prove plagiarism, needless to say students who plagiarise will usually get away with it. But that has always been the case. The internet just opens up more possibilities to do it more easily.
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