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   UK universities in ‘plagiarism epidemic’ as almost 50,000 students caught
                           cheating over last 3 years

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   The Independent Online

   Britain’s universities are said to be in the midst of a “plagiarism
   epidemic” after an investigation by The Times newspaper revealed how
   almost 50,000 students were caught cheating in the last three years.
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   of the student population, requests from 70 universities showed.

   75 per cent of postgraduates found plagiarising at Queen Mary
   University of London were from abroad, including a third from China.

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   One professor from the University of Buckingham told The Times “type-1
   plagiarism,” copying and pasting, is decreasing because it’s “so easy
   to detect.”