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  • Strategies and responses to plagiarism in Slovakia

    The rapid increase in the number of higher education institutions (HEI), students, ICT and internet penetration after 1989 and a low level of copyright and intellectual property rights awareness contributed to the growth of plagiarism at HEIs in...

    Kravjar, Július, Noge, Juraj

    2013

  • Newspaper

    Bulgarian Government: Universities react harshly to Turkey's diploma non-recognition

    Bulgaria

    Press

    - Sofia News Agency

    Turkey has suspended its recognition of Bulgarian university diplomas. The Turkish University Education Council made this decision on the grounds of high levels of academic forgery, fraud and exam cheating in Bulgaria. Bulgaria's Education Minister has admonished the Bulgarian media for provoking an international scandal, claiming that the problematic diplomas were forged by Turkish citizens.

  • Barrier to thriving plagiarism

    Plagiarism is a phenomenon that existed in the past, exists today and will exist in the future. Slovakia with its population of 5.4 million is confronted with theses and dissertation plagiarism like other countries. The rapid growth in the number of...

    Kravjar, Julius

    Washington, D.C., EDC, 2012

  • Newspaper

    45,000 caught cheating at Britain's universities

    UK

    Press

    Brian Brady and Kunal Dutta - The Independent

    Tens of thousands of students in universities across Britain have been caught cheating in exams and coursework – and the trend is on the rise, according to an investigation by The Independent. Over the past three years, more than 45,000 students at 80 institutions have been found guilty of "academic misconduct".

  • Newspaper

    College says it exaggerated SAT figures for ratings

    USA

    Press

    Daniel E Slotnik and Richard Pérez-Peña - The New York Times

    Claremont McKenna College, a small, prestigious California school, stated that for the past six years, it has submitted false SAT scores to publications like US News & World Report that use the data in widely followed college rankings.

  • Newspaper

    Corruption in Russian medical schools triggers uproar

    Russian Federation

    Press

    Anna Nemtsova - The Chronicle of Higher Education

    An exposé in the Russian edition of Esquire has roiled education and health officials here by detailing the corruption at six medical schools. The magazine in April published nine short articles by medical students describing the various ways they can pay professors in exchange for passing tests.

  • Newspaper

    Fraudulent diplomas exposed

    Cameroon

    Press

    - University World News

    The commission in Cameroon responsible for assessing higher education qualifications issued abroad has exposed more than 300 cases of fraudulent diplomas, reported Quotidien Mutations info of Yaoundé.

  • Newspaper

    Government plans to put degrees online, ease verification

    India

    Press

    Ravi , Pallavi and Sapna Krishnan, Singh, and Agarwal - The Wall Street Journal

    The government has appointed a task force to create a national database of academic qualifications to ensure confidentiality, authenticity, online verification and easy retrieval of degrees.

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