This summer a student from the department of Computing was advised that, following a decision of the Examinations Infringements Board, he could not continue his studies at CIT until 2012 . This is perhaps as harsh a punishment as has every been handed down to a CIT student caught cheating. While this is not a good result for the student, it is a good result for all other students. If the awards given to students who graduate are to have any value in the marketplace then they have to mean something. When students who are not competent in their profession field gain their awards by deception they devalue the awards. It is also very unfair to students who study hard to pass, if other students can pass by cheating.
It is clear that CIT is now prepared to take cheating seriously and deal with it. This is good for everybody.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes for this new reality to affect student behaviour.
1 comment:
It's something in our nature to do it. i belive that all of uf did it.
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