> I think it is
> ludicrous that a student who admits to down-loading material from the
> internet for his degree plans to sue his university for negligence (as
> is happening at the University of Kent at the moment). Anyone who is
> equipped with common sense and indeed any sense of pride in their own
> academic integrity would know that this is wrong.
Agreed! After all, surely it's 'common knowledge' that plagiarism is
wrong? Saying that he hadn't been told not to plagiarise is a bit like
driving on the right-hand side of the road and claiming that no-one
told him to drive on the left - the correct way of driving is going on
all around him, and maybe he might not have understood at the
beginning, but he surely should have caught on after 3 years!
Verity
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Access & Flexible Learning Development Officer
Institute for Lifelong Learning
University of Sheffield
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SHEFFIELD S1 4ET
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