When budgets depend on covering up cheating, cheating will be covered up. Educational institutions are failing to uphold their responsibility to society (partly

When budgets depend on covering up cheating, cheating will be covered up. Educational institutions are failing to uphold their responsibility to society (partly) because society has largely abdicated its responsibility to educational institutions by slashing funding and grants. In the absence of public funding, the student (or the donor), not society at large, is the customer, and the customer is always right.