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  • Video

    How to buy a fake degree

    UK

    Video

    Mail&Guardian -

    A Mail and Guardian reporter reveals the growing trend of fake degrees through her investigation. More specifically, Ashford University and Belford University offer life experience degrees, where qualifications can be obtained solely through the payment of a fee, without any training or studying required. These documents are available online and are being included on CVs across all levels of the employment sector.

  • Newspaper

    University of Wales abolished after visa scandal

    UK

    Press

    Julie Henry - The Telegraph

    The University of Wales will cease to exist after mounting a series of damaging revelations. An investigation revealed last week that overseas students at Rayat London College, in Hounslow, were sold diploma exam answers in advance of taking the test.

  • Newspaper

    Leighton Andrews: University of Wales 'let Wales down'

    UK

    Press

    Ciaran Jenkins - BBC News

    An Education Minister says the University of Wales has let down higher education in Wales and brought the nation "into disrepute". His criticism comes after a watchdog's report told the university to review its worldwide college links, which include in particular a college in Bangkok said to be operating illegally.

  • Newspaper

    Probe into Scottish university visa scam

    UK

    Press

    Kate Devlin - The Herald

    The Immigration Minister admitted yesterday there may be widespread abuses of a visa scheme that provides foreign students with the chance to enrol at UK institutions after irregularities were found at a Scottish university.

  • Newspaper

    Call for Welsh universities to unite on plagiarism

    UK

    Press

    Polly March - BBC News

    There have been calls for Welsh universities to be more consistent in dealing with students who plagiarise. New figures show between 2008 and 2011, 927 students from six Welsh universities copied work.

  • Newspaper

    UK: Cheating epidemic at Britain's universities

    UK

    Press

    David Barrett - The Telegraph

    A survey of more than 80 universities has revealed that academic misconduct is soaring at institutions across the country. More than 17,000 incidents of cheating were recorded by universities in the 2009-10 academic year – up at least 50% in four years.

  • Annual report 2011

    In 2011 law students were approximately three times more likely to bring a complaint to the OIA than the average for students studying other subjects in England and Wales. Other subjects more likely to elicit student complaints included Medicine and...

    Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (UK)

    Reading (UK), OIA, 2011

  • Newspaper

    Foreign students cheating on university applications

    UK

    Press

    Graeme Paton - The Telegraph

    Foreign students are attempting to bluff their way into British universities by parroting education websites in their applications, research suggests.

  • Dimensions of quality

    The report focusses on the quality of undergraduate education, and analyes the various dimensions of education quality to ascertain increases in resources to the universities in the UK based on the indicators of educational quality. It adapts Bigg's...

    Gibbs, Graham

    Heslington (UK), HEA, 2010

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