A three-year sentence for large-scale exam fraud
An Amazon delivery driver has been jailed for three years after earning around £300,000 sitting exams in place of students at Liverpool John Moores University. Impersonation is the most serious form of academic misconduct and carries criminal as well as academic consequences — the students who paid face expulsion and, where a degree was awarded, revocation. Academic misconduct covers where the lines are.
“We have spent thirty years asking the wrong people to fund universities”
An argument that the funding debate has been stuck between students and the state when the beneficiaries include employers, regions and the wider economy — and that a new compact would spread the cost accordingly. It is the most developed version of the “employers should contribute” argument that has run through this year’s letters pages.