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International Competition: Who is the top cheater ? by panafrican(m): 2:19pm On Apr 18, 2015
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Ghana, Africa: he loved his student so much

WAEC-Logo-nPolice at Kukurantumi in the Eastern region are questioning a basic school teacher who attempted writing the ongoing West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for his girlfriend.

The teacher was handed over to the police by invigilators who supervised the exams at the Bright senior high school.
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https://233livenews./2015/04/13/teacher-arrested-for-writing-wassce-for-irlfriend/

India, Asia: When parents climb high

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKWJJIRBNew

USA

Georgia Teachers in court
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/14/us/georgia-atlanta-public-schools-cheating-scandal-verdicts/


Harvard
Nearly half of new students starting at Harvard this year have admitted to cheating in their studies before starting at university.

A tenth of the incoming class have cheated on an exam, while 42 per cent admit to doing homework dishonestly, according to the results of a survey by the university’s own newspaper The Harvard Crimson.

Athletic students were most likely to cheat, with 20 per cent confessing to chicanery in tests, compared to nine per cent of those who do not play a varsity sport. Men are twice as likely to have cheated.
Read more @
http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/nearly-half-of-new-harvard-students-admit-to-cheating-8804898.html


UK, Europe
Penalties double



The number of schools and colleges penalised for cheating in GCSE and A-level exams has more than doubled in the past year, according to figures released yesterday by the exams regulator Ofqual.

They show 130 were penalised for malpractice during the 2012 exam season compared with just 56 the previous year. In most cases (119) they were given a written warning.
Read more @ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/penalties-for-school-exam-cheating-double-in-a-year-8269420.html

Russia, Europe: Cheating is a big gun
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One in seven Russian students readily admits to cheating in university exams, a national poll of undergraduates has revealed.

One in 25 students also reports having paid for someone else to write at least one mid-term or final-year paper, according to the annual Monitoring of Education Markets and Organizations Project (Memo), which received responses from almost 3,000 Russian undergraduates in 2013.

The project confirms the widespread belief that “cheating is blossoming” in Russian universities, according to Igor Chirikov, senior research fellow at the Institute of Education at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow (HSE), which conducted the poll.
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http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/cheating-is-rife-in-russia-finds-student-survey/2019241.article

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