I returned to university recently after 30 years to do a masters degree, and was shocked when a lecturer told me that he had to go to a plagiarism hearing regar

I returned to university recently after 30 years to do a masters degree, and was shocked when a lecturer told me that he had to go to a plagiarism hearing regarding 10% of the students on the course. I'm beginning to realise that "plagiarism" may not mean the same thing it meant in 1988.