October 13, 2006

Cheating Is Rampant at Canadian Colleges

By KAREN BIRCHARD

Cheating, deceit, and plagiarism are common on Canadian campuses, according to the first major study of academic misconduct carried out in the nation.

More than half of the undergraduates and 35 percent of the graduate students surveyed admitted to some form of cheating on written course work, such as failing to footnote, turning in someone else's work, or falsifying a bibliography. Eighteen percent of undergraduates and 9 percent of graduate students said they had cheated on a test or

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