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I recently read that almost 14,000 students have been caught trying to cheat their way to a degree.

Information released under the freedom of information revealed the statistics which show that whilst most students try to cheat at coursework, 1,000 were found to be cheating in exams.

The most popular method of cheating in exams seemed to be the use of crib sheets taken in by the student.

Out of the fourteen thousand students caught cheating, just seventy seven were expelled from 60 Universities.

A total of 114 Universities took part in the survey of which the University of Greenwich reported the most severe problems with cheating, reporting that a total of 601 students were caught.

Whether this is because Greenwich University have a lot of cheats, or whether it is because they are better at catching them is no clear!

Of the 601 students cheating at Greenwich, 50 of them were caught in exams. The next Universities on the list were:

• University of East London with 515 cheats
• Wolverhampton with 360 cheats
• Sheffield Hallam with 344 cheats
• Sunderland with 321 cheats

I would imagine most of these were cases of plagiarism; certainly that was what people seemed to get caught for when I was at University.

Plagiarising work is not easy (not that I ever tried it). Universities routinely look ro matching text on the internet, and now, Universities are sharing databases of all past assignments to detect whether a particular piece of work has been plagiarised.

Even if you are using an old piece of work that only existed in hard copy a few years before at a different University, there is every chance it has been scanned and is now available to your own University.

I always viewed plagiarism as being more difficult than the work itself, in my opinion you are far better off just getting on with your studies and trying to learn something!

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