Postgraduate Plagiarism

I was digging around in the Independent website and I came across this article looking at postgraduates and plagiarism. According to a JISC report, twice as many postgraduates were guilty of plagiarism in 2008 with an average of 1.19 per cent of postgraduate students involved in cases of plagiarism, compared to 0.67 per cent of undergraduates. This data was supported by statistics from the University of Glasgow. What was even more surprising to me was that it is students from overseas that tend to plagiarise, with 1.76 per cent of all overseas postgraduate students from outside the EU committing plagiarism, compared to 0.11 per cent of all postgraduate students from the UK. According to the Independent article, reasons for this discrepancy are primarily cultural since different educational systems handle referencing in different ways, with some systems having very little est... read more