By Nick DeSantis. A team representing Harvard University has been disqualified from an intercollegiate video-game tournament for cheating, ESPN reported. The winners of the competition, called “Heroes of the Dorm,” receive tuition money for their college careers, according to the event’s website. More...
Kenyan exam board bosses arrested over university entry ‘fraud’
By Chris Havergal. Education minister says senior managers at Kenya National Examinations Council implicated in ‘unprecedented cheating’. More...
Student Charged With Changing Grades
A student at the University of Connecticut has been charged with second-degree forgery and third-degree computer crime for breaking into his professor's computer and changing grades, The Day reported. Read more...
The Economy of Cheating
By Carol Poster. Colleges and universities may try to address academic cheating as a moral or pedagogical problem, but it's really about something entirely different, argues Carol Poster. Read more...
Pirating Papers
By Carl Straumsheim. Piracy been around for decades, but the sources of pirated music, movies and more have multiplied over the years, expanding beyond platforms such as Napster and the Pirate Bay. Today, many users search for copyrighted scholarly papers on Facebook, Reddit and Twitter or repositories such as Library Genesis (LibGen) and Sci-Hub. Read more...
Le gouvernement intensifie la lutte contre la fraude au détachement
Par Anne Fairise. Les ministres du Travail et des Finances ont profité, ce 23 février, d'un déplacement à Rungis pour détailler les mesures prises pour lutter contre le travail illégal et les fraudes au détachement, en particulier dans le BTP. Voir l'article...
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For-Profit College Execs Sentenced on Financial Aid, Visa Fraud Charges
Three senior for-profit college executives were sentenced Tuesday on charges related to student financial aid and student visa fraud, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced. Read more...
Obama Crackdown on College Fraud
By Michael Stratford. A new team at the Education Department will investigate and punish colleges that mislead students or otherwise violate federal laws. Read more...
US colleges seek to combat fraud in applications from China
By Laura Krantz and Jessica Meyers. A video camera and two plastic chairs sit in a tiny room on the city’s west side, the latest weapons in a global battle against the wave of admissions fraud striking US schools.
College-bound Chinese students come here to InitialView, one of several such companies operating in the country, to film a video interview and prove their speaking abilities match their applications. Read more...
Infographie :: Les fraudes au virement
Une enquête menée auprès des Directeurs Financiers français révèle que 62 % des entreprises ont été victimes d'une tentative de fraude au virement. A voir sur ITsocial.fr, une infographie mettant en scène les chiffres des fraudes au virement. L'occasion de rappeler également que près d'un tiers (30%) des entreprises utilisent encore le fax, alors qu'une recommandation du Comité Français d'Organisation et de Normalisation Bancaires conseille de l'abandonner avant la fin 2016.
En savoir + :: 6 DAF sur 10 ont subi une tentative de fraude au virement