Internet plagiarismPlagiarism at Oxford University appears to be rife among both undergraduate and postgraduate students, with most of it passing unnoticed by examiners and tutors, the university has admitted.
Alan Grafen, who is Oxford’s chief disciplinary officer, said the number of students copying other people’s work without acknowledgement threatened to undermine the worth of an Oxford degree. He said the problem had become so serious that all students should be required to sign an affidavit for every piece of work they submitted.
Profitable
The universities in the Netherlands ended the year 2004 with a profit of 45 million euro, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). This is 29 million euro more than in 2003. Income from contracts has become more important. The share of the Dutch government’s financial contributions decreased. A spokesperson for the Dutch Students Union (VSNU) said the CBS figures show that the costs per student decreased and that the government is spending less money on university education. Next month the universities will release their own financial reports.
Old Europe
The most powerful economies of ‘Old Europe’, including France, Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, are struggling to keep up with a huge expansion of higher education in Asia, a new report has found. The survey, by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, warns the members of the European Union to increase spending on schools and universities and tackle a crippling lack of social mobility within their societies or put future economic growth in jeopardy. “The time when Europe competed mostly with countries that offered low-skilled work at low wages has gone. Today, countries like China and India are starting to deliver high skills at low costs,” the report said.
Mistake
The student who died two weeks ago after lighting himself on fire in his apartment on the Brasserskade was not a TU Delft student, as the police had initially reported. Immediately following the incident, the Delft police had released a statement to the media, including to Delta, stating that the victim was a TU Delft student. But this statement was mistaken, the police now acknowledge. “Last week our investigation revealed that this was a TU Delft student, but that has turned out to be untrue,” a police spokesperson said. The student, who studied dentistry, did have contact with staff members of TU Delft, however, and this apparently was the reason for the error, the spokesperson said. The tragic incident shocked the neighborhood where the student lived, as some of the neighbors had seen the student on fire in his apartment.
10,000 hits
Every day approximately 10,000 people visit the TU Delft website, according research conducted by TU Delft’s Marketing and Communication (M&C) department. A figure for the total number of hits for all Dutch university websites is not available, however. The total number of hits on the TU Delft website is based on the approximately 200 web pages that are used for the M&C content management system. In addition there are research groups at the university that have sites that are independent of the TU’s site. “10,000 hits sounds like an extremely high number,” says Martijn Krenn of the M&C department. “But part of the reason for this is that many TU Delft staff members use the TU web pages as their start pages.”
Internet plagiarism
Plagiarism at Oxford University appears to be rife among both undergraduate and postgraduate students, with most of it passing unnoticed by examiners and tutors, the university has admitted. Alan Grafen, who is Oxford’s chief disciplinary officer, said the number of students copying other people’s work without acknowledgement threatened to undermine the worth of an Oxford degree. He said the problem had become so serious that all students should be required to sign an affidavit for every piece of work they submitted.
Profitable
The universities in the Netherlands ended the year 2004 with a profit of 45 million euro, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). This is 29 million euro more than in 2003. Income from contracts has become more important. The share of the Dutch government’s financial contributions decreased. A spokesperson for the Dutch Students Union (VSNU) said the CBS figures show that the costs per student decreased and that the government is spending less money on university education. Next month the universities will release their own financial reports.
Old Europe
The most powerful economies of ‘Old Europe’, including France, Britain, Germany and the Netherlands, are struggling to keep up with a huge expansion of higher education in Asia, a new report has found. The survey, by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, warns the members of the European Union to increase spending on schools and universities and tackle a crippling lack of social mobility within their societies or put future economic growth in jeopardy. “The time when Europe competed mostly with countries that offered low-skilled work at low wages has gone. Today, countries like China and India are starting to deliver high skills at low costs,” the report said.
Mistake
The student who died two weeks ago after lighting himself on fire in his apartment on the Brasserskade was not a TU Delft student, as the police had initially reported. Immediately following the incident, the Delft police had released a statement to the media, including to Delta, stating that the victim was a TU Delft student. But this statement was mistaken, the police now acknowledge. “Last week our investigation revealed that this was a TU Delft student, but that has turned out to be untrue,” a police spokesperson said. The student, who studied dentistry, did have contact with staff members of TU Delft, however, and this apparently was the reason for the error, the spokesperson said. The tragic incident shocked the neighborhood where the student lived, as some of the neighbors had seen the student on fire in his apartment.
10,000 hits
Every day approximately 10,000 people visit the TU Delft website, according research conducted by TU Delft’s Marketing and Communication (M&C) department. A figure for the total number of hits for all Dutch university websites is not available, however. The total number of hits on the TU Delft website is based on the approximately 200 web pages that are used for the M&C content management system. In addition there are research groups at the university that have sites that are independent of the TU’s site. “10,000 hits sounds like an extremely high number,” says Martijn Krenn of the M&C department. “But part of the reason for this is that many TU Delft staff members use the TU web pages as their start pages.”
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