As there is always a Microsoft vs. EU article on/. I thought this might be interesting reading...
http://www.corpwatch.org/ has a great article on what it takes to lobby the EU. Right on their front page: An Insider in Brussels: Lobbyists Reshape the European Union
My girlfriend is a big high flying professional medical college instructor. One of her duties is to go through and process plagiarism cases, do fact finding, and make recommendations for action against the accused. By the time a plagiarism case lands on her desk it has failed the plagiarism checking program: "turn-it-in". Some interesting facts about her situation: -As the school where she works has a lot of foreign students worth big bucks..... Many actions that recommend punishment are overturned by higher ups. The money is more important than ethics. Warm body + cash = good student. -The buck rogers program "turn-it-in" puked once and gave out conflicting results on different dates for the same paper. ( They are having their I.T. people ask the vendor support about how that could have happened ) -Some foreign students come from cultures where it is considered a compliment, to copy work created by someone else. This takes effort to inform them what is considered unacceptable. Language barriers between teaching staff and students don't help. -The preventive briefings to students still needs a lot of work so less plagiarism cases land on her desk. -As there doesn't seem to be any hard punishment... the usefulness of checking for plagiarism seems useless.
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How much money does this guy make a year? That would be the level of vaule I would put on any busniess ideas he has.
As there is always a Microsoft vs. EU article on /. I thought this might be interesting reading...
http://www.corpwatch.org/ has a great article on what it takes to lobby the EU.
Right on their front page:
An Insider in Brussels: Lobbyists Reshape the European Union
My girlfriend is a big high flying professional medical college instructor. One of her duties is to go through and process plagiarism cases, do fact finding, and make recommendations for action against the accused. By the time a plagiarism case lands on her desk it has failed the plagiarism checking program: "turn-it-in". Some interesting facts about her situation: -As the school where she works has a lot of foreign students worth big bucks..... Many actions that recommend punishment are overturned by higher ups. The money is more important than ethics. Warm body + cash = good student. -The buck rogers program "turn-it-in" puked once and gave out conflicting results on different dates for the same paper. ( They are having their I.T. people ask the vendor support about how that could have happened ) -Some foreign students come from cultures where it is considered a compliment, to copy work created by someone else. This takes effort to inform them what is considered unacceptable. Language barriers between teaching staff and students don't help. -The preventive briefings to students still needs a lot of work so less plagiarism cases land on her desk. -As there doesn't seem to be any hard punishment... the usefulness of checking for plagiarism seems useless.