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| Subject: Oppressive statists guilt-shaming kids: Schools to put students on HSC cheating register Tue Sep 30, 2014 7:50 pm | |
| Any NSW school that catches an HSC student plagiarising, asking or even paying someone to do their major work, or who deliberately hands an assessment task in late, must now record the offence on a new register, set up seven years after the Independent Commission Against Corruption investigated cheating in take-home exams.
For the first time this year, cheating in school-based assessment tasks will be published along with exam breaches. Students and schools will not be identified but the course, the type of offence, the nature of the assessment and the penalty will be publicly released.
A statewide malpractice register for assessment tasks was one of 20 recommendations in a 2007 ICAC report, which investigated corruption risks in HSC take-home and school assessments, but the register is only being introduced now because it required extensive consultation with schools.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/schools-to-put-students-on-hsc-cheating-register-20140930-10o1al.html#ixzz3EqWDBSnI |
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