... seriously? How could they have had any hope that their students would either view cheating seriously or that looking the other way as others were cheating was unethical? Did the deans really even view cheating as a problem? According to a 2010 survey of deans of business schools, and despite reports of pervasive cheating by 40%-60% of the students, only 5.1% of the deans surveyed regarded academic dishonesty as "a very serious problem." 48.3% believed it to be "moderately serious." So, how could the students ever have regarded cheating as a serious issue if the deans themselves didn't? Something did appear to ... was not the way to reach their goal of ending apartheid... What the business school deans faced was something quite serious -- something that threatened to undermine our very economy: the evil of pervasive cheating. The deans' explicit challenge was to train their students -- our future business leaders -- to confront not only the evil of pervasive cheating, but also the related evil of those who looked away as they saw those around them cheating. What made the deans' challenge less daunting was that they were dealing with captive students -- students who needed the MBAs as their ticket to prosperity. The deans, therefore, held all the cards ...
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... of fraud that later germinate and bear many fruits in the minds of students, which they carry on to adulthood. The harvest is the current realities of pervasive fraud and corruption in all sectors of our economy. Memory lane Though colonialism has always been perceived as an unnecessary punitive experience in Nigeria, one of its ... syndicates. When the products of examination malpractice at the school-certificate level finally gain admission into tertiary institutions, they continue with the tradition of examination fraud by cheating in examinations and buying some lecturers over. Most of them even join cult groups to intimidate "un-cooperative" lecturers in a desperate bid to graduate by all ...
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