Thanks Ella,
I watched Dispatches - still have it recorded if anyone wants a copy - but hadn't caught the Guardian piece, and all the disturbing comments. Interesting how the latter demoted Tom Lancaster to "one of the country's" expert on Plagiarism, rather than THE expert; sorry Tom. However, I felt this was two half programmes down together: one on schools (institutional) cheating, the other a rather dated one about contract cheating in universities.
Either filled out with counter-examples - discussion of Assessment4learning, novel assessments, movement towards academic integrity - the sort of stuff many people here are doing, would have been a much better episode. I recall the days when the Media represented every football match as a riot (up to and including Hillsborough), every piece of left luggage as an IRA bomb, and every striking miner as a Socialist 5th Columnist. None of this was true. Not even all the time. Have you ever noticed how coach crashes seem to come in bunches, especially when there's no news?
So, we hear nothing about the hard working, dedicated educators, students and admin/support staff, all working to improve QA, value add, widen access, yet ensure standards. That wouldn't be news.
Let's start a (proverbial) protest mob. I could do with a new flat screen TV!
Mike
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