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Ohec warns unis on academic plagiarism

The Office of the Higher Education Commission (Ohec) has warned universities they are responsible for placing more emphasis on the quality of teaching, especially at the graduate level, after two cases of alleged thesis plagiarism at Silpakorn University were unveiled last month.

Ohec oversees higher education institutes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Its secretary-general Arporn Kaenwong says the office is concerned over the allegations.

"We have told all unis to place more emphasis on post-graduate education quality, not just providing commercialised courses which attract students who are uninterested in learning but just want the degrees," Mr Arporn said.

He was referring to two cases of alleged plagiarism at Silpakorn University which attracted huge public attention and made.....

Ohec warns unis on academic plagiarism | Bangkok Post: news

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Tip of the iceberg, the education system here is riddled with cheating and fraud. If there is an easy way and a right and proper way the Thai will normally choose the easy way, they are lazy people.

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That certainly exists but it's not the major problem, which is simply that standards are unbelievably low. The kind of low- to mid-range universities which the great mass of Thai undergraduates pass through often seem to be teaching to what are barely O-level standards. And whilst there are very intelligent, well-educated teachers at all levels, the majority are very definitely not. A little while ago I had to translate a piece of 'research' from a teacher at one university. He had developed an entirely run of the mill PHP/MySQL website for the local police station and then given them a questionnaire to fill out on how good it was and, bizarrely, how secure it was. That was his research. God only knows what the research question actually was. Perhaps, could a university teacher successfully complete a task which any 14-year-old with an interest in programming would find tedious and unchallenging?

Can't blame the poor Master students, they are asked to actually write an essay while they only had to tick boxes on multiple choice questions untill then ...:rolleyes:

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