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Guarding against PhD Plagiarism – an unmet need?

   PhD nightmare crop Poor academic practice and academic misconduct cases
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   occur and the consequences are potentially catastrophic and extremely
   distressing for all concerned. Cases we are aware of have involved the
   external examiner identifying plagiarised material with an almost
   forensic level of rigor – exactly what we expect of any external
   examiners doing their job. It has struck us that there is currently an
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   Our pilot of this approach has already proved valuable by identifying
   patterns of poor scholarship including plagiarism among year 1
   progression papers; issues we have identified would definitely land
   students in trouble if they had submitted work for UG or taught PG
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   of Turnitin. Undetected problems could persist within a final submitted
   thesis and this could be catastrophic; in 2013 the Education Minister
   for Germany had their PhD rescinded because of plagiarised content.

   PhD theses are still a special case and the nature of similarity needs