March 18, 2007
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REPORT: Cut and paste
A few years ago we all read news reports about a professor at the University of Karachi who had allegedly copied parts of a colleague’s PhD dissertation while writing his own. When the professor, whose dissertation had been plagiarised, discovered this, he was outraged and, understandably,...
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FEATURE: Criminals by custom
EVER heard of the word “plagiarism”? No, I am not joking. It is a perfectly serious query because despite being educated, it appears that many of us are still not aware of the most common crime when it comes to academics. Plagiarism is rampant — be it academics, journalism or writing, in general — and has gone not only unaccounted for but also remains unchecked most of the time....
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IN OTHER NEWS: A new age of heroes
MOVE over, Jane Austen. A new generation of fighting, spying and sporty working-class heroes should be helping boys keep up with the girls in secondary schools, Alan Johnson, the education secretary, last week....
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BACKTALK: ‘So you lose out’
This is with reference to Nooruddin S. Bhamani''s article “So You Lose Out” (March 11, 2007). The writer says that students lack “soft skills” sought by a new generation of employers....
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