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I'd like to see universities take up the challenge of verifying research as part of undergraduate and graduate training. Government and private subsidy of this
by skittles 14y ago
I'd like to see universities take up the challenge of verifying research as part of undergraduate and graduate training. Government and private subsidy of this work would be well worth it.
- jff 14y agoI once came across a final paper written by a student at an Indian university as part of his bachelor's degree. It was basically a selection of Plan 9 papers, and some simple how-to documentation I had written up, poorly copy-pasted together to reach 50 pages. Three professors had signed off on it. I tried to reach the one with a listed email, to point out that he had passed an obviously plagiarized document, but his inbox was full. Not sure if he'd have cared anyway, cheating and plagiarism is extremely widespread there (one of my girlfriend's relatives is paying someone else to earn her teaching degree... and thus the cycle continues)