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October 29th, 2006 by eyal | Filed under People. |
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Future corporate leaders? What’s even more interesting is how fear of litigation paralyzes Academia from taking action.
Students seeking their masters of business administration degree admit cheating more than any other type of student, from law to liberal arts.
“We have found that graduate students in general are cheating at an alarming rate and business-school students are cheating even more than others,” concludes a study by the Academy of Management Learning and Education of 5,300 students in the U.S. and Canada.
Many of these students reportedly believe cheating is an accepted practice in business. More than half (56%) of M.B.A. candidates say they cheated in the past year. For the study, cheating was defined as plagiarizing, copying other students’ work and bringing prohibited materials into exams.
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.However, what’s holding many professors back from taking action on cheaters is the fear of litigation. To that end, the academic world is becoming much more like the business world where those who walk with a heavy legal stick can swat others out of the way; it may be time to impose a whistleblower statute for students and teachers.
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P.S. I, of course, did no such thing ;-)
