1 > Five held for issuing fake CISCO certificates
HYDERABAD: The managing director of a private company and five others were arrested for issuing CISCO certificates by fraudulent means. The private company was issuing the certificates by impersonating the candidates who does not have the requisite knowledge to get the certificate.
2 > Students disagree on what constitutes cheating and whether it is a problem
If you were to ask Peabody Professor Andrew Van Schaack if cheating is a problem on Vanderbilt’s campus, his answer would be simple - yes. In the 2007-2008 academic year alone, the Vanderbilt Honor Council heard 63 cases, involving a total of 81 students, all regarding questions of academic integrity on Vanderbilt’s campus.
3 > For cheating students, the punishment never fits the crime
I confiscated the test paper and cheat sheet, stapled them together, and turned the matter over to the front office. A slam-dunk violation of the county’s honor code.
Or so I thought.
Later that day, the principal called me down to her office. She had dismissed the discipline referral. Furthermore, she told me, it was my fault the child cheated – because I had dared ask the student to memorize information.
4 > City Investigates Alleged Cheating on EMT Test - washingtonpost.com
D.C. officials are investigating allegations that rescue workers cheated on a certification exam for emergency medical technicians at a Maryland testing facility, authorities said yesterday.
Internal affairs investigators are probing whether fire department personnel brought in “outside materials,” the department said in a statement. The statement did not say how many employees might have been involved.
5 > China’s Hi-Tech Exam Swindlers Jailed
Two hundred-plus parents and teachers who used hi-tech space-age equipment to help children cheat in Chinese civil service exams have been sent to Wang-King’s infamous Smiley Face Organ Donor prison. They were given sentences of between ten to twenty-five years after being found guilty of espionage in obtaining state secrets (exam questions).
6 > In honor we trust? - The Daily Princetonian
This discrepancy between the number of students who said they cheated on in-class exams and the number who said they cheated on take-home assignments reflects the dramatic distinction at Princeton between these two types of academic work — a distinction which is highlighted by the jurisdictional divide between the University’s Honor Committee and its Committee on Discipline (COD). Several students and faculty members also explained that this discrepancy may indicate that the punishments handed down by these committees act as a greater deterrent than any inherent sense of honor.
7 > The aging Honor System - Opinion
I am beginning to lose faith in the Honor System. I take the Honor System very seriously, as all Stevens students should, but I have recently noticed more and more of my peers who do not. Over the past several weeks, I have witnessed so many Honor violations in my classes. Taking pictures of the lab TA’s answer sheet and using those answers as their own, whispering answers to one another and looking at notes on cell phones during exams and using PDF files with homework problem solutions are all obvious Honor violations I have seen in the past few weeks.
8 > Norway Trials Laptops For School Exams - Digital Trends
In Nord-Trondelag county in Norway, all students are given a laptop for school work when they turn 16. Now the government is testing the use of those laptops for exams.
Sounds like an invitation to cheating? Wrong. The computers have some specially-designed software to prevent that eventuality.
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