Dan’s Landing

Over at Rate Your Students, where educators complain about their pupils in much the same way their pupils complain about them 24/7, there’s a post about three plagiarists. From the post:

My 3rd worst Plagiarizing Pupil was so lazy that she could only be bothered to retype the first page of the paper she stole…She was [...]

The Eyeopener (which needs your soul to let you sign up and post comments online) pokes fun at the recent PR debacle Ryerson University found itself in.

After charging a student with 147 counts of academic dishonesty, they began expulsion proceedings. The student has since not been expelled, forced to attend a seminar on academic [...]

Ryerson University has started expulsion proceedings against a student because of his involvement with Facebook study group. Mark Federman, a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education which is associated with the University of Toronto was interviewed by Global TV regarding the scandal. Here is his interview:

…study groups can get you in trouble too.

Chris Avenir, a first year engineering student at Ryerson University in Toronto is facing expulsion for academic dishonesty. The devious rascal is accused of cheating on some chemistry assignments (guess he won’t be going into chem eng) by setting up a Facebook group. In the said Facebook group, [...]

…mes parents?

Students in France are drawing attention to the issue of student housing. While on this side of the ocean it would probably consist of a Facebook group or two, they’re doing it [HA!] old school and using posters. Attention grabbing posters for sure:

(In case you’re not Frenchly inclined it says: “Some people pretend [...]