As plagarism is so rife now - would u say that many educational qualifications r irrelevant nowadays.?

Question

So many people ask questions for their exam work on the internet to help them gain their qualifications.

Is this not cheating!

How can u trust their qualifications?

Answer 1

While I agree with your conclusions, I think that plagiarism is not the main cause of the problem.

Entry to a training contract with a good professional firm was by 'O' levels in the sixties, 'A' levels in the seventies and now requires a relevant degree from a good University and is subject a prolonged and rigorous selection procedure.

Political interference in the education system since the mid-sixties has driven standards down so such that students have to spend many extra years in education to achieve the standards of the pre-Wilson, pre-Major education system.

Asking a question on the Internet is not really plagiarism, more laziness in not looking up something in a test book or plain cheating in getting (say) a maths question done by a third party. Internet plagiarism is copying pages of text from on-line sources or buying essays from providers.

Individuals have their own styles of English usage so, unless completely reworked, plagiarism should be apparent to teaching staff. Below research level, the borderline between reworked plagiarism and textbook learning is very fuzzy.

A significant contributing factor to the decline in educational standards is the financial pressure on staff to give students good grades, thereby ensuring the establishment's ongoing funding.

Answer 2

Using sources on the internet is no more cheating than using sources in books or articles. If you're plagiarising the form of media is irrelevant.

Answer 3

sure it is.  but most people now days would rather take the easy way out than work for what they want.  and there are a lot of people on line that want to prove how smart they are by giving the answers to questions they know people are asking to get out of doing their homework.

i guess the proof comes when someone actually has to do the job............and fails.

Answer 4

I sure that Employers have no idea what A**+ means. Some Universities are thinking of bringing in their own exams to sort out who they want.

Answer 5

Universities take plagarism very, very seriously, and have stringent checks, often using anti-plagarism software. Students do not get away with cheating, thus qualifications can still be trusted.

Answer 6

The saying goes that using one authors work is plagiarism but using several is called research.

Answer 7

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