1,600 students expelled in Bihar for cheating

[malaise]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-21855609#.UU0yNKNnZq8.facebook
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More than 1,600 students have been expelled for cheating in school examinations in the northern Indian state of Bihar, officials say.

At least 100 parents were also briefly detained for helping their children cheat in the senior school exams.

Cheating in exams is fairly common in Bihar, but the number of students and teachers caught this time is unprecedented.

Officials said improved vigilance by teachers, police and surprise visits by "flying squads" of officials headed by area magistrates to examination centres were the main reasons why such a large number of students and parents were caught cheating.

Bihar is one of India's poorest states with a 64% literacy rate, one of the lowest in the country. India's literacy rate is 74%.

He said the parents were detained for passing on answers and other "study material" at the examination centres.
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Shakes head

[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. Have any students from that area obtained medical licenses?

[malaise]

2. Well these are high school students

so I'm sure some entered medical schools. I've learned that cheating your way into college doesn't guarantee a graduate certificate.

[elehhhhna]

3. meanwhile yale had another scandal and nobody's expelled

[malaise]

4. What's good for the goose is rarely good for the gander

[AnotherMcIntosh]

5. At least at Harvard they asked some of their cheating students to temporarily withdraw. In February

"... Harvard University announced that over half of the 125 students implicated in the largest Ivy League cheating scandal in recent memory were asked to temporarily withdraw from the university in light of their infractions.

http://yaledailynews.com/crosscampus/2013/02/03/students-asked-to-withdraw-as-harvard-cheating-scandal-ends/

[Initech]

7. And they almost all will get jobs in the next Republican administration.

[Egalitarian Thug]

6. Cheating is epidemic here as well, and just as in India, enforcement is mostly determined by status.

You would not believe some of the "honors graduates" that came through my office. They came from everywhere from the corporate diploma mills to the ivy leagues. People that, even though they hold a diploma in a specific discipline, lacked any understanding of the most basic principles their degree claims.

[malaise]

8. Iwould believe you

Most of them prefer text messages to text books and course outlines are a waste of time since they google for everything - why read a course outline. Critical thinking - WTF is that??

[Egalitarian Thug]

9. I'm not really that old and I went to college late, but if we did any of this stuff then, we'd be

given an 'F' for the course, if not expelled. It seems that now profs are simply not allowed to actually grade anybody that has come up with tuition.

[malaise]

10. Fast food education

for dummies.
That said there are still some good students around - a small minority

[Egalitarian Thug]

11. Oh, no doubt about it. But I do have to wonder where they are coming from. It seems strange that

a University is simultaneously graduating great potential innovators and these frauds. Do they have an asterisk on their diplomas, somewhere?