March 2, 2007
While Guru is on the subject of all things scholarly, he feels he must get something off his chest (and not just the egg-yolk stain from breakfast).
Students these days have got it easy, and it's all thanks to the internet. In Guru's university days, the delivery of an essay involved the three Rs - research, reading and riting (though obviously not spelling, Ed).
But now, it just requires the three Cs - copying, cheating and (downright) criminality. Undergraduates can simply log on to the world wide web and download their dissertation of choice, cut and paste the relevant tracts, change a few adjectives here and there to foil the anti-plagiarism software, tidy, submit and head down to the student union bar for a subsidised 99p pint of beer.
If you need proof, type "human resources dissertation" into eBay... Yours for under a fiver.
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