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The University of Toronto is suing a tutoring service for contract cheating and copyright infringement allegations. The company at stake, owned by a former student from the University of Toronto, is claimed to target Mandarin-speaking students with tutoring packages that include course materials, digital presentations, lecture notes and assignments. For over USD 1,000, students in …

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“In recent years, a chorus of former PhD students have broken their silence over abusive behaviour suffered at the hands of their supervisors. Their horrifying accounts variously relate being belittled and humiliated in front of colleagues, having supervisors explode with anger upon hearing of scientific setbacks, even supervisors sullying their students’ reputations in the eyes …

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“Bik, a microbiologist from the Netherlands who moved to the United States almost two decades ago, is a widely lauded super-spotter of duplicated images in the scientific literature. On a typical day, she’ll scan dozens of biomedical papers by eye, looking for instances in which images are reused and reported as results from different experiments, …

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In August 2013 Henderson earned her Ph.D. in nursing from UIC, the school where she had also received her master’s in nursing and her MBA. In December that same year, she took a job as interim provost for Chicago State University (CSU), a job that she held until 2018.

There is no question that all external sources but your ideas and thoughts have to be properly quoted in your work. Last year, in 2019, Diamond Rodriguez used a picture of a wooden floor in her work, that was not taken by her, without properly giving a credit to the author, which caused that she was dumped from the entire course…

The modern era brings us a lot of options on how to educate ourselves. One plausible way to do that is to follow online educators on youtube. Siraj Raval is such a “teacher”…

This story is based on real events and was anonymized to keep all parties safe. The names here mentioned are fictional names. Peter has been working as an immunologist for over 30 years. Thanks to his natural talent, passion for continuously educating himself and hard work, he achieved a position as a Head in Clinic.  …

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