Massive cheating reported in US and UK universities. More than half of US students admit to cheating

The scale of cheating is at an all time high.
Check the LATEST issues:

guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2012/oct/05/plagiari sm-marketisation-of-higher-education

bbc.co.uk/news/education-20298237

huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/harvard-cheating-ring-uni_n_1844104 .html

I have provided the LATEST evidence, not some old, meaningless garbage that was posted by WB claiming that 'US students Dont Cheat- an argument that i have thoroughly and emphatically defeated.

Cheating around the world:

Asia: globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/thailand/120103 /US-college-application-fraud-asia-elite-economy-china - Elite Asian students cheat like mad on US college applications:

"... roughly 90 percent of recommendation letters to foreign colleges are faked, 70 percent of college essays are ghostwritten and 50 percent of high school transcripts are falsiï-ed."

Sweden: thelocal.se/41554/20120620/ - Ten students were suspended from Lund University in southern Sweden this week after getting caught cheating, as reports of academic dishonesty at the university continue to skyrocket.

United Kingdom: telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8363345/The-cheating-epid emic-at-Britains-universities.html - The cheating epidemic at Britain's universities: "A cheating epidemic is sweeping universities with thousands of students caught plagiarising, trying to bribe lecturers and buying essays from the internet."

Let's get over this, students all over the world cheat and for various reasons. The fact that such essay writing companies are flourishing and still in business say it all. The real question is: so what?!

Alas, I'm not proud of it but I cheated once in junior high in a history class. I'll never forget 1066 now, but it was hard to remember stuff like that when you are young, teachers are inept, and spring is springing. As

I wrote several dates I knew would be on the test on the bottom of my shoe* and glanced at them twice by crossing my legs, as much for the info as the fact I was actually getting away with something wrong -- putting it over on the man if you will. So, did any of the rest of you ever cheat in school? Come on, own up.

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*This works kids!

OK, OK. I missed a Biology test in 9th Grade and had to make it up. The teacher always gave make-up tests in the lab with those sliding blackboard panels. I went in there about an hour before the test and wrote all my notes on one blackboard and slid the empty one in front of it. After he left me in there with the test, I just slid the blank panel out of the way.

I would've passed you just for thinking of that. Do you still remember what the test was about now?

Yup. Human reproductive system...had all the diagrams drawn up right on the blackboard and everything.

I remember many of the dates I wrote on the bottom of my shoe, too. It seems creative cheating can facilitate learning. This would make a great topic for a paper.

In my case, it was a two-stage process. First, I had to just get past the old man to stay home sick to miss the test: he was wise to the thermometer-under-the-hot-faucet trick and would bring the thermometer to my room if I said I felt sick. But he never anticipated the thermos of hot water stashed under my bed. By the time he came back to check, it was a perfect 101.5 degrees.

I'm from Ukraine and anywhere except here I met such a great amount of cheating cases. It seems to be an ordinary thing for our students. Once, when I was a student myself, we've been questioned if we thought the cheating is ok or it's the shameful kind of thing. This anonymous opinion poll was held due to coming PSA festival in our University, and when the event had started the group who shooted the video about cheating showed the horrifying results. Most were ok with cheating. Frankly, we were sure there's no such thing abroad, especially in UK - we were always told so. Actually, if you're interested, you may read this article, where the author tells about the differences between Ukrainian and American cheaters she'd discovered herself (kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/ukraine-leads-way-in-student-cheating-312304.html). Talking about it, I must confess I usually felt myself obligated to share my work with a friend, too. And I cheated, too.

But there's nothing to be done, the demands are too high for children and students and they'd do everything to correspond. If so, then would it be a crime to use such services as, for example, this one essay cool? I never used them myself but I know 2 people who did. They're clever and educated but they had their reasons - one needed free time to bring up a child, another had too many exams and tests and didn't have time to close up everything with his own efforts. So, is it possible not to cheat at all in modern world with it's enormous demands? Shame of me, but I don't think so. I'd be glad to know your pros and cons.

No one cares about boring stories in excruciatingly poor English, spammer.

i'm sure there are more then a half of those students that cheat. if EVERYONE admitted it - it would be like 2/3 of all students.

Trying to make yourself feel better? Misery loves company.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: People are just people and they'll try to get away with whatever they can.

Cheating is par for the course with students. These days, college has become ultra competitive and doesn't leave much time for a student to breathe, much less get some time to rest their brains from the demands of their classes, research, homework, extra curricular activities, etc. It is has practically become an open secret in the university circles that students hire additional help to deal with their assignment and class research requirements in order to keep their heads above water. So the newspapers decide to cover the amount of cheating that goes on. What does this accomplish? Nothing. Unless the educational system changes so that research is no longer required, assignments are mere options for increased grades, and examinations are no longer considered the yardstick by which the theoretical learning of a student is measured, cheating will always be a necessary evil for the students. If the students are graded on actual, practical application of their lessons instead of incessant written work, then maybe, the rate of cheating can be lowered or cheating can be totally avoided. Until that happens, everyone just accept that massive cheating works as a helpful tool for the student's academic accomplishments.

No surprises there. The proliferation of online universities and modular forms of education have made it even easier for "students" these days to "attend" classes and pass their requirements for a grade without breaking a sweat. They enroll, grab the class requirements list, attend classes whenever they can, then pass on the hard work of actually studying and completing the requirements for the course over to paid hands. Most of the students that do this say that they are working students who just requires the certification for their already existing job in order to get a promotion or whatever.

These students don't have the time to read the materials, much less take the actual exams, so they pay someone to do it for them. The universities are getting wiser though, the systems of some universities actually do an IP check now and block the access of any student who tries to log in from out of the country (as registered by the student). This is the best way for universities (as far as they know) to combat student cheating. The student's and writers are wiser than the university heads are though and eventually, they will find a way around that IP address block, even if they have to mask their IP's somehow to do it.

College students have been cheating to complete their writing projects for generations; it's just that the most popular mechanisms have changed:

Thirty years ago, every fraternity on every college campus maintained a library of written assignments submitted previously, often cataloged by professor. Sometimes, those papers would be rewritten, updated, and changed as necessary to produce something that professors wouldn't recognize as ever having seen before; other times, they'd simply be retyped with a new cover page and submitted for credit as many times as the number of different professors in that course, or in that department.

Twenty years ago, companies began popping up online offering previously-written essays, providing many more options than the dozens of projects on every topic written by (and already submitted for credit by other) students at the same college and warehoused in fraternity libraries. Instead of being limited to projects already used at the same school for professors at the same school, students could choose from many thousands of projects written by students at hundreds of other colleges, nation-wide.

About 10 years ago, online originality-testing services began providing a means for professors to combat the student practice of submitting previously-written projects for credit. That mechanism, essentially, killed the entire business of selling pre-written college essays and promoted the explosion of essay companies providing newly-written original custom essays that couldn't be identified as unoriginal essays even when they were scanned by originality-testing systems. Unfortunately, because it's a totally unregulated industry, it also provided a ripe opportunity for any idiot who could pay for a slick-looking website to rip off unsuspecting customers, whether by taking their money and providing nothing in return or by hiring workers who just copy and paste unusable nonsense from whatever they can Google (and, often, right off Wikipedia) to satisfy the page count (but nothing else) of the order. For every legitimate domestic company, there are now dozens (or hundreds) of scam operations designed to mimic legitimate companies; usually, they originate and are operated from the same Third-World (and Second-World) nations that already earned well-deserved reputations for running scams targeting American consumers in all sorts of other industries, and long before they decided to jump on the scam-essay-writing bandwagon.

Nowadays, instead of retyping old papers themselves or buying prewritten papers online, college students have to spend that time doing some research, but not necessarily research of an academic nature; instead it's research simply intended to identify legitimate and reliable sources of quality writing and to distinguish legitimate service providers to avoid getting ripped off by all of the scam companies (and scam "writers") in this industry. That's the main reason they read forums such as this one.

I'm sure many will see my reply as trying to color the issue gray instead of it being black and white. However, it isn't black and white. I don't see getting help with a paper as cheating in the same way that one would cheat on an exam (i.e. cheat notes in your pocket, etc.). Today's students have more on their academic plates than ever and the majority of students have jobs and families. The workloads given are often impossible to follow and certainly next to impossible to yield high grades. I know from personal experience and having put 3 out of 4 children through college. I helped my children with the essays but I made danged sure they were doing everything else and that they knew the subject material. Getting help when the waters are above your head isn't cheating; it's smart!

Massive cheating is a thing of the past. Changes to the way classes are done, class requirements, and submission procedures are going to evolve because of Covid-19. Classes will now be done on a more relaxed scale. It will be in a hybrid form of e-classes and formal classroom training. Or, it could be e-classes alone. The decision about that is still up in the air. So this massive cheating talk may just end up being a topic of the past. Sure they may have cheated in the past, but with the changes happening in the school industry, such moves may no longer be necessary for the students. Let's see what happens when the next academic year opens before we continue to agree or disagree with the previous report. As of now, it's just too soon to tell.

Theses days both students and teachers already cheat. The teachers rely on AI to generate their exams. The students, rely on AI to either answer the take home tests and research papers or, to create review test sheets and quiz cards for them. So cheating in the academe should not be a big deal anymore. Both sides cheat to a certain extent, whether they admit it or not.

This isn't cheating unless there's some explicit institutional agreement or directive prohibiting teachers from using AI to generate their exams, and in all likelihood, there probably isn't, because there's really no sensible rationale for any such prohibition. On the other hand, most teachers do expressly prohibit the use of AI on written assignments, which (obviously) makes AI cheating, by definition.