Last modified on Thu 11 Feb 2021 00.10 EST
UK researchers are warning of an alarming rise in cheating in universities since the Covid pandemic hit, after detecting a tripling of requests to a major “homework help” website and an increase in the number of “essay mills” as courses and assessments have moved online.
Researchers at Imperial College London (ICL) studied requests to Chegg, a US-based homework support website, and found students were using the site to ask for help with exam-style questions and receiving answers live, potentially within exam time limits, raising concerns about the credibility of online assessment.
The warning came as the former universities minister Chris Skidmore introduced a 10-minute rule bill in the Commons seeking to outlaw essay-writing services in the UK, saying they threaten to “damage academic integrity beyond repair”.
By Archa Fox, University of Western Australia and Harry Al-Wassiti, Monash University
The first mRNA vaccines approved for use in humans the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out around the world.
These vaccines deliver mRNA, coated in lipid (fat), into cells. Once inside, your body uses instructions in the mRNA to make SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins. The immune response protectsaround 95% of people vaccinated with either vaccine from developing COVID-19.
Such mRNA vaccines have many benefits. They are quick to design, so once the manufacturing platform is set up, mRNA vaccines can be designed to target different viruses, or variants, very quickly. The vaccine manufacturing is also fully synthetic, and doesn’t rely on living cells like chicken eggs, or cultured cell lines. So this technology is here to stay.
The first mRNA vaccines approved for use in humans the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out around the world.
These vaccines deliver mRNA, coated in lipid (fat), into cells. Once inside, your body uses instructions in the mRNA to make SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins. The immune response protectsaround 95% of people vaccinated with either vaccine from developing COVID-19.
Such mRNA vaccines have many benefits. They are quick to design, so once the manufacturing platform is set up, mRNA vaccines can be designed to target different viruses, or variants, very quickly. The vaccine manufacturing is also fully synthetic, and doesn’t rely on living cells like chicken eggs, or cultured cell lines. So this technology is here to stay.
JYSK to open third Lincolnshire store in Gainsborough
A new addition in Marshalls Yard
The Gainsborough store will join the Lincoln JYSK, which opened in May 2019. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
A Danish homeware retailer will open a brand new store at Marshalls Yard in Gainsborough, replacing the former DW Fitness unit.
JYSK, the largest Danish retailer in the world, will open the 12,570 sq. ft. store at the Gainsborough shopping complex this August.
It will be on the ground floor of the old DW Fitness unit, which closed down after the company went into administration in August 2020. A new gym opened upstairs.