{"id":1074,"date":"2021-06-17T14:37:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T13:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2022-12-17T21:25:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T21:25:40","slug":"contract-cheating-addressing-the-business-school-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/contract-cheating-addressing-the-business-school-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract Cheating \u2013 Addressing The Business School Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are specific challenges for Business Schools looking to identify and address contract cheating. From my previous research, <strong>I&#8217;ve seen particular demand for students to have assignments produced for them in business related subjects<\/strong>, including finance, marketing and management. I&#8217;ve also seen wide availability of writers claiming to be qualified or specialised in these areas.<\/p>\n<p>I gave a remote presentation for staff at the Birmingham Business School (part of the University of Birmingham) to discuss these issues.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the slides I used below (and also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ThomasLancaster\">on my SlideShare account<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/cdOLEfnHpeU9bB\" width=\"595\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Business is one of the areas where we need more specialised research into contract cheating and the ability to share best practice. There is a lot of demand for Business School qualifications, but students can sometimes be motivated more by the value of the qualification than the associated learning.<\/p>\n<p>We need to consider how to address contract cheating in Business Schools and <strong>how we can encourage and support academic integrity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are specific challenges for Business Schools looking to identify and address contract cheating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[34,453,141,512,18],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contract-cheating","tag-academic-integrity","tag-birmingham","tag-business","tag-business-school","tag-contract-cheating-2"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Thomas Lancaster","author_link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/author\/thomas-lancaster\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"There are specific challenges for Business Schools looking to identify and address contract cheating.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}