Plagiarism Police

Well today was really wasted, it was my first meeting with a member of the Plagiarism Police.  It was never going to go well, as I had a pile of marking to do and no time to waste.  Just as I was getting going, I hit a wall.  It turns out one of my idiot undergrads had copied a chunk of one of my own articles and stuck it in the middle of their essay. Now, for me, the greatest surprise was not that they had done this, but that I had actually been paying close enough attention when marking…

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Coronavirus, University Tuition Fees and Lectures

What is happening with Coronavirus and Tuition Fees? I think the short answer to what is happening with coronavirus, university tuition fees and lectures is nobody really knows! I would treat with great scepticism anyone that tells you they know what will be happening and their University will be returning for the first semester in October and there will be no problems!  Universities will want their tuition fees.   Now, I don’t want to say they’re lying but they are probably doing a very good impression of the village idiot. Five months ago no one would have predicted the mess…

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