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Sashadroogie

Hope nobody investigates half my colleagues... : )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21347510

Qaaolchoura · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:56 pm Post subject:

Sasha, I thought you were teaching at language mills in Moscow?

If you're teaching at a uni, then your claims of the glory of life in Russia are very misleading to the majority of us TEFLers unqualified for uni work.

~Q

Dedicated · Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 972 Location: UK

Haven't they heard of plagiarism software (such as Turnitin) which weeds out a lot of blatant plagiarism? It's not 100% perfect, but it's a good start.

This is installed throughout UK universities.

Xie Lin · Joined: 21 Oct 2011 Posts: 731

Sashadroogie · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 4:27 am Post subject:

Qaaolchoura · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:47 pm Post subject:

Sorry.
I mean I take it you work at a uni, if you and your colleagues are expected to publish papers and/or have postgraduate degrees?

~Q

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

But Qaalchoura, clearly it's not only university staff who may be caught plagiarising!!! Sasha may have colleagues of all stripes who could be at risk. Shocked

Believe it or not, I even know some Phd holders who have real jobs, outside academia Surprised

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Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:31 am Post subject:

Sorry Quaaolchoura, still not too sure what you mean there. But the truth is what Spiral has expressed. Plenty of m'colleagues seem to have rather dubious academic qualifications - and not just the local colleagues either...

Qaaolchoura · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:51 pm Post subject:

Sashadroogie · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:25 pm Post subject:

As we revolutionaries are wont to say, you can seize power at the point of a bayonet, but you cannot sit on it, hic! So, you can certainly get a job in the Paradise, but can you hold it down, eh? That's the real question, hic! I think...