Do law students cheat even more than hoi polloi students at elite U?
“They go to one of the world’s most prestigious universities and pride themselves on their superior intellect but almost half of Cambridge students admit they are not immune from the temptation to cheat and submit essays they find on Google, a survey suggests. The results of an anonymous online poll of more than 1,000 students conducted by the student newspaper Varsity found that 49 per cent of undergraduates pass other people’s work off as their own at some point during their university career…Law students were most prone to plagiarism with 62 per cent of those questioned admitting to breaking university rules….” More (UK Times 10.31.2008).
