Cheating Students, Professionals & Civilized Society

     Cheating is "a phenomenon that plagues colleges and universities at all levels. ... Some put the rate at 75%. That means three out of every four students admit to some kind of academic dishonesty at some point during their higher education.
     Cheating happens because students have the opportunity and the incentive to do so. If it was harder to cheat and if cheating didn’t benefit students by leading to higher grades, it would not happen as often."
     above from the intro to a Megna online seminar http://www.dal.ca/news

     This is disgusting, particularly among students who will occupy positions of minimally-supervised public trust: health-care professionals, pilots, quality control officers, accountants, lawyers, politicians, etc.
     Civilized society depends entirely on each individual's trustworthiness. How can we do better?

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