BBC: Dozens of students at Harvard University are being investigated for allegedly helping each other cheat in an exam, officials say.

Up to 125 students in one undergraduate course are suspected of sharing answers or plagiarising.

Possible cheating was found in about half of exam papers handed in by the class, which has at least 250 students.

If confirmed, the scandal would be the biggest to hit the "Ivy League" of top US universities in recent memory.

Suspicions were first aroused when a teaching assistant noticed several problems with the exam papers, including long passages of identical text in different students' answers, the Associated Press reports.

The university has not named the course or class in question.

Possible punishments for students found to have cheated range from a first-offence warning to being excluded from the university for a year, according to the agency.

"These allegations, if proven, represent totally unacceptable behaviour that betrays the trust upon which intellectual inquiry at Harvard depends," the university's president, Drew Faust, said.

Jay Harris, the dean of undergraduate education, stressed there was no evidence of widespread cheating at Harvard.

"The facts that are before us are that we have a problem in this one course," Mr Harris told AP.

"Looking at the students we have and the work that they do, I would be loath to say this is something that represents Harvard students generally".

SOURCE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19432240

Nigeria now have Professors of cheating. Role model. Harvard. Lol

Before Nigerians start to high-five themselves and go 'Na so the thing be everywhere', calm yourselves oh. It hasn't degenerated to our level yet

na today?

Where without cheating in nigeria you will have a problem graduating...SMH

Everybody cheats, the school administrators should get a break!

The Brain-Drain thingy must really be hitting hard.

The Social-Age, yeah sure. Spend more time in Chatroullete than Wikipedia.

I guess signing the honor code did not mean much to these undergrads.

Not NAIJA Alone

Well cheating happens everywhere,so am nt surprise

Well cheating happens everywhere,so am nt surprised

I know a typical NIgerian will see this and go: "Why e come be news...Abi cheating and expo dey different?"

To the first 3 or 4 posters...what has this issue got to do with Nigerians?


Garri. _{this is not a question o}

they receive too much pressure in Harvard and in those Ivy league universities so i'm not surprise...and American cheat a lot....

Human beings always have the tendency to cheat. Thought Harvard was rly exceptional! Nawa o! Wonders, they say shal neva end

hahahahahaha... Havard now living in the shadow of her past! No thanks to new-school generation. that reminds me, was Mark Zukerberg not aN Havard graduate?

Suspicions were first excited when a teaching assistant noticed several problems with the exam papers, including long passages of identical text in different students' answers, the Associated Press reports.

If they (students) were taught by the same lecturer and if same study material/text books were used, it’s possible to have identical/same answers. My thought though

koolkamzzy:

If they (students) were taught by the same lecturer and if same study material/text books were used, it’s possible to have identical/same answers. My thought though

maybe the same ideas but not the same formulation .......even if you are twins and thaught by the same lecturer the same formulation(same words/sentences ans even ponctuaations only happens when people cheated)

Long live MIT!!

koolkamzzy:

If they (students) were taught by the same lecturer and if same study material/text books were used, it’s possible to have identical/same answers. My thought though

Exams test understanding of courses not ability to memorise and re-write!!!

kokoye: To the first 3 or 4 posters...what has this issue got to do with Nigerians?


Garri. _{this is not a question o}

Nothing.
We were just pre-empting the obvious . . . which eventually became the apparent.

miteolu: Not NAIJA Alone

Since harvard is made up of humans, I don'think such events should b ruled out.

Exam malpractice in Nigeria is like d deadly HIV virus dat has no cure

I hate people cheating exams

Cant people read!

That is the level of MENTAL LAZINESS Affecting our generation.

I hereby prognosticate a dearth of intellectuals in America.

CAMEROONPRIDE: maybe the same ideas but not the same formulation .......even if you are twins and thaught by the same lecturer the same formulation(same words/sentences ans even ponctuaations only happens when people cheated)

If you are taking a course in Accounting or taxation, where all definition and answers must come from the various accounting bodies (e.g. CICMA, SFAS, GAAP, AICPA, ACCA, IFRS, GASB, AICPA), then it’s very possible to have all the students writing same answers.

Chei MAU-Lag students don invade harvard

Is cheating now a bad thing