Read "Plagiarism 'is fault of indulgent lecturers'" by Alexandra Frean, published October 18, 2006 by Times Newspapers, Frean says: "PLAGIARISM and cheating by today’s cut-and-paste generation of university students will never be stamped out unless lecturers stop spoon-feeding them a diet of handouts and PowerPoint presentations."
www.timesonline.co.uk, 18 Oct. 2006
However, in the Times Higher Education Supplement, only a couple of months later, Phil Baty reports on "cheating academics": between 2004 and 2006, of 73 cases of academic fraud, 25 were upheld while 11 are still pending. Plagiarism is the most freqent type of fraud amongst academics, followed by misrepresentation or fabrication of results and misuse of research funds.
