cheating on an exam I was talking about coursework and dissertations. Cheating on exams is harder, although not impossible (e.g. bathroom breaks). it was

cheating on an exam I was talking about coursework and dissertations. Cheating on exams is harder, although not impossible (e.g. bathroom breaks). it was made abundantly clear We also make this abundantly clear. But when they get caught (which is already rare), we issue warnings, send them on courses where they learn how properly to quote and so on. 10 strikes and you are out ... so why not with you? Because life is short because I don't like tilting at windmills, because I have better things to do, and because I believe in specialisation. I didn't sign up to be a police man, and I have no skills in this direction. Our department actually used to pay somebody to scan rent-a-coder.com and we also used turnitin.com. The former was abandoned and the latter was reduced to a student service (i.e. they could check their coursework before submission)! We were never really given a reason why. One has one's suspicions ... having those kids expelled What in your opinion is the cost, financially, in terms of time and reputation, of dealing with all the law-suits that the aggrieved and high-paying parents of the expelled students are sure to launch? (Aka "my precious child a common cheater? Never, we raised her well, it must be your fault!") A top school [...] could toss out half the current students LOL. In 1837, Hong Xiuquan failed the imperial examination and was denied his dream to enter the Qing dynasty's civil service. This lead to the Taiping Rebellion, one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history. I really don't want to know what would happen if you fire 1/2 of Harvard students in the time of helicopter parents and tiger mothers, Lord have mercy!