Entire student houses caught cheating in online university exams
Student housemates are sharing pictures of exam questions and completing papers as a team, experts say
28 June 2021 • 6:00am
Entire student households are being caught cheating in online university exams, lawyers have warned as collusion becomes endemic .
The shift from exam halls to virtual assessments during the coronavirus crisis has seen rising numbers of students accused of malpractice, facing expulsion or having to repeat the year, experts say.
Forced to sit exams in their bedrooms, some students are sharing questions with their housemates, by photographing answers and copying them, or taking it in turns to complete sections of the paper.
Antitrust enforcement needs money not reform, experts say
Antitrust experts said amending merger and acquisition laws would hamper competition. Instead, agencies should be better funded to expand on the work they re already doing.
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Instead of changing current laws, funding may be at the heart of solving antitrust enforcement challenges, a group of legal and academic experts argued.
During a panel discussion Friday hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, antitrust experts weighed in on the current national conversation about antitrust enforcement efforts against big tech companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon. Regulators in the U.S. and globally are looking to reign in tech giants by, for example, scrutinizing acquisitions that may be deemed anticompetitive. One commonly cited example is Facebook s 2012 acquisition of Instagram for $1 billion.
Student essay mills have boomed during the pandemic – but banning them won t solve the problem
Up to one in seven university students are thought to have used essay mills - and they are a symptom of deeper issues at universities
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With her essay deadline closing in, Rosie knew that paying hundreds of pounds for a stranger to write her Master’s assignment was a dangerous gamble. An ‘essay mill’ soon returned a script riddled with errors, so she requested a refund. Then her troubles began.
The online writing company threatened to report her to university authorities, meaning almost certain expulsion, unless she paid £300. She paid it, then came another £300 demand. What started as an attempt to cheat had become a costly web of blackmail.
Historian wrongly claimed concentration camp survivor had lesbian affair with guard
Dr Anna Hájková, an associate professor of history at Warwick University, made the claim in an article. A research misconduct panel found there was insufficient evidence
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A Warwick University professor wrongly claimed a female Holocaust survivor had had a sexual lesbian relationship with a Nazi concentration camp guard, a research misconduct investigation has found.
A panel convened by the university concluded there was insufficient evidence to support historian Dr Anna Hájková s claims that a Jewish prisoner and an SS guard had had a sexual relationship.
The extraordinary claim was made by Dr Hájková after testimonies by survivors of the camps and legal documents from the Nazi s trial led her to conclude an affair had occurred between the two women.
When the professor, who specialises in an LGBTQ+ study of the Holocaust, contacted the prisoner s daughter in 2014, she was told the women s relationship had not been sexual, whether consensual or coercive.