Academic cheating ‘common’ in China

September 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The medical superintendent of a premier hospital here Wednesday accused a senior police official of framing him by registering a false case of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy against him last month but the latter has denied the charge. Safdarjung Hospital medical superintendent Jagdish Prasad Rai told reporters that police inspector Ramesh Kakkar had approached him in July seeking admission for one of the relatives of Deputy Commissioner of Police (South Delhi) H.G.S.

September 15th, 2009 LONDON - Fake video footage can dramatically alter people's perceptions of events, even convincing them to testify to a non-event, says a new study. Kimberley Wade, psychology professor from Warwick University (WU), led an experiment to see whether such faux footage could induce people to accuse another of doing something they never did.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Government on Monday announced that it will introduce grading system in all Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools and make Class X board exams optional from coming academic year (2010-11). Union Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal, during a press conference in the national capital, said: "Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) supports making Class X examination optional in CBSE system." "There is a pan-India consensus over the issue.

August 16th, 2009 LONDON - Prince Harry has made a series of vows, including a no-cheating charter, to woo back his former girlfriend Chelsy Davy, according to reports. The two were said to have secretly met several times at a friend's apartment in London to consider getting back together again.

August 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Primary school students were recently asked to invigilate an exam for public security, procuratorial, and judicial workers in China. The Government of Liangzhou district of Wuwei, Gansu province, asked 18 primary school students to invigilate the exam.

August 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Cheating among students is reaching 'epidemic' proportions. In some studies, up to 80 percent of high-achieving high school students and 75 percent of college students admit to cheating.

July 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has announced a race for $4.35 billion in federal grants to improve academic achievement and reverse a decline in American public schools to meet increasing competition from countries like India and China. "In an economy where knowledge is the most valuable commodity a person and a country have to offer, the best jobs will go to the best educated, whether they live in the United States, or India, or China," Obama said announcing the competition Friday.

June 22nd, 2009 SYDNEY - One in four Australians have caught their partners cheating on them through a text message, according to a new survey. The survey commissioned by Telstra's State of the Nation has found that four in 10 Aussies send up to seven text messages a day, while one in three use texts to tell others about major events like births or promotions.

June 12th, 2009 MACAU - Competition between India and China for global markets is not adversarial and there is overarching consensus across India's political spectrum that a well-balanced relationship with China is vital to India, said Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao. Rao was delivering the keynote address at the Global Business Forum here, organised as part of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) weekend which sees the glamour of Bollywood combine with the business of entertainment.

June 8th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A large number of Singaporean children are hiring private detectives to find out about their dads' 'secret affairs'. According to Sin Chew Daily, an investigator in an interview revealed that the children were not only angry with their "cheating fathers", but were also worried that their inheritance might get passed on to the mistresses.he investigator said that a woman in her 20s recently caught her father having an extra-marital affair with a woman in Shanghai, China, reports The Star Online.

June 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Delhi Police have registered a case of cheating against a quack, arrested in Ahmedabad for allegedly duping people to the tune of millions of rupees, as complaints of cheating poured in from across the national capital too. The Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police's Crime Branch is investigating the matter.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The number of cheating cases in the Central Board of Secondary Education Examination (CBSE) Class 10 exam has dipped to less than half the figure last year. Nonetheless, Delhi has topped the list.

May 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The pass percentage in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 board exam has gone up, but so has the number of cheating cases - up from 49 to 58 this year with Delhi and Allahabad 'topping' the list. The CBSE Class 12 board exam results were declared for the Delhi, Guwahati and Allahabad zones at 10 a.m.

May 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 20-year-old man has duped many people and a private bank that had fired him due to the global economic downturn, police said Saturday, adding that he has been arrested along with his accomplice. Vishal Aggarwal, a resident of Faridabad in Haryana and wanted in many cheating cases, and his friend Ravinder Kumar, also 20, were arrested Friday from Ambedkar Nagar in south Delhi, police said.

May 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A former employee of the US embassy here has been arrested for duping people by promising them jobs with the mission with forged appointment letters, police said. Somya Ranjan Dass was arrested Friday after Arvind Kumar complained to police that Dass had assured him of a job in the embassy but was only cheating him since July 2006, police said.