Timeline for Academic Misconduct with alternate exam? Minimizing damage?
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| Dec 13, 2016 at 23:14 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @CountIblis Interesting idea. However, this used to be the domain of vocational colleges. Universities were, as the name says, about universal knowledge. Fundamentals of what's important in math, of physics and, yes, of computer science, do not change fast (the facts do not change at all, but some perspectives modernise, albeit very slowly). This is what universities used to teach. It was expected of a university graduate to adapt to the needs of a concrete job fairly quickly. Specialised knowledge for very particular jobs outdates quickly. No point wasting a university education for that. | |
| Dec 13, 2016 at 23:03 | comment | added | Count Iblis | @CaptainEmacs I see. Having worked at university with a bad exam system and having been a student elsewhere where the system was better, my opinion is that there should be a larger distance between exams and the teaching of the subjects. Ideally, there should be no exams at all at university. A university degree is an archaic concept. Testing should be done at separate facilities, tailor made tests based on the demand of particular employers can then be made. People who want to work at some company know what the requirements are, they will then want to buy whatever education they need. | |
| Dec 13, 2016 at 12:16 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @CountIblis Yes, and that's why I said in another comment that the incident is accumulative, not definitive evidence. I didn't want to repeat that other argument here. I here essentially just aimed to respond to your point about paying for tuition. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 21:57 | comment | added | Count Iblis | @CaptainEmacs The OP denies that the student was told about the fact that the exams were the same. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 21:53 | comment | added | Count Iblis | @user2390246 One has to put the problem in the right context, if you are in bad physical shape, prone to get ill any and then you do indeed get ill, leaving this situation out of the discussion and only focusing on the details of the particular pathogen, does not give a good overview of the situation. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 9:27 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | Yes, you correctly say that they pay tuition to get an education. An education, mark you, not a degree. A degree is a kind of currency paid out by the university which should match the students achievements. And, yes, if you give out a currency, you need to implement a monopoly, that's the nature of that. Cheating in exams is a bit like printing fake money. Yes, the university was careless in leaving that door open, as the driver of the security truck who recently left the door open and where the bucket with the gold flakes were stolen. But one is negligence, the other one is intention. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 8:56 | comment | added | user2390246 | Your first paragraph doesn't make much sense to me, and in any case seems like a bit of a tangential rant. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 2:29 | history | answered | Count Iblis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |