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  • Newspaper

    UBC investigating after 100 students accused of cheating on math exam

    Canada

    Press

    - DH News

    There were over 100 cases of cheating at the University of British Columbia (UBC) during an online math exam. The UBC director announced that the consequences for the students involved might vary from a warning to a zero on the test, a zero in the course, or even suspension or expulsion. The University has taken the necessary measures to ensure the integrity and security of all online courses.

  • Newspaper

    Post-secondary students call for changes to online exam rules as cheating concerns rise

    Canada

    Press

    Jessica Wong, - CBC News

    With many students forced to trade in-person lectures for online learning during the pandemic and the rising cases of academic misconduct, students, as well as professors, are concerned about the software being used to assess them. The vice-president of the University of Alberta Students’ Union (UMSU) says black students have had problems where the application doesn't recognize their faces. Other students with disabilities reported that they rely on specific screen-reader software that is incompatible with remote proctoring software. Although professors recognize that some courses may require e-proctored exams, they want them to be implemented correctly.

  • Newspaper

    Calgary post-secondaries see rates of academic misconduct, cheating rise during the pandemic

    Canada

    Press

    Lucie Edwardson - CBC News

    There has been an increase in academic misconduct at Mount Royal University from 62 cases between March and August in 2019 to 130 cases this year. They include cheating, sharing answers or work, plagiarism, and misrepresenting facts or information that gives a person an unfair academic advantage over other students. The university is also looking at programs for e-proctoring and student integrity that would lend to preventing misconduct.

  • Newspaper

    Multi-year RCMP investigation results in fraud charges for education service employees

    Canada

    Press

    Kayla Rosen - CTV News

    Four employees have been charged with defrauding Opaskwayak Education Services (OES) of hundreds of thousands of dollars following a multi-year investigation. In a news release, the police said that the four accused, in control of the financial department of OES used their positions of authority within the organization to commit fraud.

  • Newspaper

    Cheating may be under-reported across Canada’s universities and colleges

    Canada

    Press

    Sarah Elaine Eaton - The Conversation

    Media have reported allegations of creative cheating strategies at universities across Canada, including hacking grades, bribery and breaking into offices to steal exams. A survey conducted at 11 Canadian higher institutions showed that 50 per cent of undergraduate students have committed some form of academic misconduct.

  • Newspaper

    Surge in international students forcing colleges to step up anti-cheating campaigns

    Canada

    Press

    Heather Rivers - Woodstook Sentinel Review

    After a surge in enrolment of international students, accompanied by a spike in cases of academic misconduct including plagiarism and using prohibited materials on exams, St. Clair College, in Windsor, created the position of academic integrity coordinator. Fanshawe College which had 852 academic offenses in 2016-18, with 907 the flowing year, plans to create a similar position.

  • Newspaper

    Predatory journal has firm grip on universities in Ottawa and Canada

    Canada, India

    Press

    Tom Spears - Ottawa Citizen

    Scientists from the University of Ottawa, The Ottawa Hospital and other top-tier institutions across Canada keep publishing their results in fake science journals, tainting the work despite years of warnings. One veteran science publisher warns all the work that produced these studies “is just thrown away.” Until recently, the scope of the problem of “predatory” journals has been hard to measure. Now, one giant in the fake publishing field, OMICS International of India, has improved the search engine for 700 journals. Hundreds of Canadian scientists were found to have published recently with the Indian firm — the same company that accepted this newspaper’s analysis of how pigs fly.

  • Professional ethics education and law for Canadian teachers

    This polygraph emerged from a meeting of Canadian experts in professional ethics in education in summer 2017 at Ryerson University. Contributions focus on both theory and practice, and the realities within which ethical judgments must be made. Papers...

    Maxwell, Bruce, Tanchuk, Nick, Scramstad, Carly

    Ottawa, Canadian Association for Teacher Education, 2018

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