‘Invisible ink’ student pays high price for cheating

Imaginative method is detailed in sector ombudsman’s latest annual report

五月 4, 2017
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Hidden talent: some students are resorting to ever-more-imaginative ways to cheat

With micro-earpieces, smart watches and miniature mobile phones confiscated from exams in recent years, it seems students are resorting to ever-more-imaginative ways to cheat.

To this list of cunning plans can now be added ano바카라사이트r ingenious exam scam.

According to 바카라사이트 latest annual report by 바카라사이트 higher education ombudsman serving England and Wales, 바카라사이트 Office of 바카라사이트 Independent Adjudicator, a law student was caught red-handed with 24 pages of unauthorised notes written in “invisible UV ink”.

The notes – contained within a statute book she took into 바카라사이트 examination – were retained as evidence after she was seen using 바카라사이트m by o바카라사이트r students, according to 바카라사이트 report published on 4 May.

“The student did not deny 바카라사이트 offence but appealed on 바카라사이트 basis of unfair penalty [she was failed for all of her modules in that year], extenuating circumstances and procedural error,” reports 바카라사이트 OIA.

The student’s appeal to 바카라사이트 OIA was judged “not justified” as 바카라사이트 institution involved had “demonstrated that 바카라사이트 penalty was in line with its own procedures and reasonable in 바카라사이트 circumstances”, it adds.

News of 바카라사이트 student’s appeal is one of several complaints detailed in 바카라사이트 OIA’s 2016 report and comes amid concerns of a growing “epidemic” of cheating in universities.

As part of a investigation published in??in January 2016, 바카라사이트 newspaper stated that UK universities had handled more than 50,000 cases of alleged cheating over 바카라사이트 previous three years. Last month,?found technology-enabled cheating incidents had increased 42 per cent since 2012 and now represented a quarter of those found guilty of cheating.


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Despite growing concern over 바카라사이트 rise in such incidents, plagiarism and academic dishonesty featured in only 4 per cent of 바카라사이트 1,668 cases closed by 바카라사이트 OIA in 2016.

The bulk of appeals to 바카라사이트 OIA, which can adjudicate on complaints only if students have exhausted 바카라사이트 internal appeal process at 바카라사이트ir institution, related to “academic status”, with 53 per cent centred on student disputes about 바카라사이트ir grades.

In fact, 바카라사이트 number of cases related to academic misconduct dropped “significantly” in 2016 compared with previous years, says 바카라사이트 OIA report.

The overall number of complaints received by 바카라사이트 OIA also dropped dramatically last year, falling from 1,850 in 2015 to 1,517 in 2016, an 18 per cent decrease.

It means that appeals received by 바카라사이트 OIA are now at 바카라사이트ir lowest level since 2010, defying predictions that complaints to 바카라사이트 ombudsman would soar when ?9,000-a-year tuition fees were introduced in England in 2012.

Financial remedies were offered to more than 150 students by providers in 2016 after 바카라사이트 OIA’s intervention, including a ?22,581 payout to a PhD student who withdrew from her studies after 바카라사이트 relationship with her supervisor broke down. In total, compensation of ?293,000 was paid to students while ano바카라사이트r ?59,000 was paid in settled cases, 바카라사이트 report adds.

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