Nijmegen students increasingly commit fraud

Nijmegen students cheat on exams more and more, and they copy and paste parts of papers and thesis’ from the internet. These are the findings of the exam committee of the Radboud University in Nijmegen.

There is an increase in the number of fraudulent students at the Radboud University. Carry Maathuis, secretary of the Law Faculty’s exam committee, says in Radboud University magazine Vox: “Our students are allowed to bring laws books to exams. The last couple of years we see that students have become a little too creative with underlining and shading. That is why we have adjusted the rules now.”

Vox asked 57 chairmen of exam committees about student plagiarism, of which 21 chairmen responded. 29 percent of them say to see fraud in the study program. The study programs where fraud takes place see an increase of 53 percent of plagiarism cases. 40 percent of them say the number of fraud cases stay the same, and only 7 see a drop.

In June, a research conducted by Elsevier magazine and research institute SEO Economische Onderzoek already showed that students commit plagiarism on a large scale.

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