The solution to plagiarism is the same for all subjects: abandon continuous assessment and have viva voce as a significant part of the final. When I studied ap

The solution to plagiarism is the same for all subjects: abandon continuous assessment and have viva voce as a significant part of the final. When I studied applied physics eons ago we had tutorials in term time and a substantial essay to complete in the long vacation but these were between the student and the tutor and had no effect on the final class of degree; that was determined by a series of final exams (open note), the report of the final year laboratory project and its oral defence. My project report was more than a hundred typewritten pages with numerous diagrams and I had to defend it to my project supervisor and the head of department. I don't think a plagiarist could have done it. Of course this is expensive, all the academics involved were permanent employees of the university, there were no graduate students doing slave labour tutoring. In my opinion the plague of plagiarism is a direct consequence of attempts to get education on the cheap and of valuing the diploma more than the education itself.