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For people who missed this, this is based on the main story in The Times on Saturday. There are various follow up letters in today's The Times too. Probably not the best day to release a big story when most universities are still closed and staff away, but maybe that was the intention. There were actually four stories related to different aspects of student cheating in Saturday's The Times, but because that newspaper is behind a paywall, the much shorter retelling through the Press Association is the one that has been mostly picked up (as seen in The Guardian version). I personally don't find the numbers surprising. Some follow-up local stories have used the angle "students at university x cheat more". Others have looked at the angle "staff at university x better at detecting cheats". The latter version is closer to the truth and there must be some concerns about the universities that were reporting practically no cheating. Nearly every time I give seminars on cheating and plagiarism, I get academics asking about international students and cheating. We saw the Australian cheating scandal last year which pointed to similar results. I've no doubt that there are issues specific to that group of students. Whether international students really are as much as four times more likely to cheat is debatable. However, the indication from The Times data is that they are four times more likely to be detected as having cheated. Thanks, Thomas ________________________________ From: Plagiarism [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Dr. Mike Reddy [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 04 January 2016 13:53 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Four times more likely... discuss http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jan/02/universities-catch-almost-50000-student-cheats ************************************************************************* You are subscribed to the JISC Plagiarism mailing list. To Unsubscribe, change your subscription options, or access list archives, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PLAGIARISM.html ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* You are subscribed to the JISC Plagiarism mailing list. To Unsubscribe, change your subscription options, or access list archives, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PLAGIARISM.html *************************************************************************