Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Racketeering on campus

Egban Afolayan,

I agree plagiarism is a global disease and we should not do ''auto-flagellation'' to ourselves. What we need to care about is that those found guilty of this academic sin be punished equally.

Dr Emery Patrick EFFIBOLEY

Assistant Professor, 

Department of History and Archaeology, University of Abomey-Calavi 

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg,(2014-2016) 

www.researchgate.net/Profile/Emery_Effiboley

 

Le mardi 18 février 2020 à 04:30:55 UTC+1, 'Michael Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> a écrit :

"The story could be worse here in Nigeria. For instance, a former Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission, Prof Peter Okebukola, said 60 per cent of theses submitted by Nigerian undergraduates were plagiarised works. He also added that at Master's degree level, the rate was between 15 and 20 per cent; and eight per cent at PhD level."

This is a global virus that does not typify Nigeria or India (or just Third World countries, for that matter).  It happens even in the United States. I have served on PhD committees where we failed students purely on the basis of either plagiarism or engaging in what we called TH (Thesis for Hire). The President of my university system himself was investigated and found guilty of plagiarism after he fired a young assistant Professor for "plagiarizing" his own work (that is, the young academic presented a report that he previously wrote and used at a different institution to submit as a new report to our institution - confusing as it may sound!). My point is this: of course Nigeria has its own barrages of higher ed anomalies about which we can write all day, but when it comes to the culture of untoward academic writings "in partial fulfillment of this or that degree," it's a disease of which no region of the world is absolved!

Michael 

On Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 4:04:49 AM GMT+1, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

https://punchng.com/racketeers-partner-lecturers-turn-varsity-final-year-projects-to-money-making-machines/

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