{"id":17559,"date":"2013-02-03T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/harvard-university-suspends-60-students-for-cheating\/"},"modified":"2013-02-03T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T00:37:00","slug":"harvard-university-suspends-60-students-for-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/03\/harvard-university-suspends-60-students-for-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard University  suspends 60  students for cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"c1\">About 60 students of the prestigious Harvard University, USA, have been suspended and others disciplined in a mass cheating scandal at the elite college, the administration said at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean, Michael Smith, told staff and students at the university near Boston that \u201csomewhat more than half\u201d of the cases under investigation ended with students being required \u201cto withdraw from the college for a period of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">\u201cOf the remaining cases, roughly half the students received disciplinary probation, while the balance ended in no disciplinary action,\u201d Smith said in a campus-wide email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">When the scandal first became public in August, Harvard said that as many as 125 students were suspected of helping each other in a final exam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">The university said a large number of undergraduates \u201cmay have inappropriately collaborated on answers, or plagiarised classmates\u2019 responses, on the final exam for the course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">Harvard, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the most exclusive universities in the world, with students paying about $63,000 (about N10 million) a year to attend after winning a place in a highly competitive admissions\u2019 process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">Smith called the scale of the cheating incident \u201cunprecedented\u201d and said reforms were being drawn up to \u201cpromote academic integrity and a deeper understanding of it within our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">\u201cWe all can do better,\u201d he said in the email.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 60 students of the prestigious Harvard University, USA, have been suspended and others disciplined in a mass cheating scandal at the elite college, the administration said at the weekend. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}