Cheating

In 1993 it was reported in the USA that 83% of all undergraduates at MIT cheated at least once in their college careers. The 1994 investigation into one of the largest cheating scandals at the USA Naval Academy, renowned for its sacred Honour Code, implicated 133 midshipmen, or about 15% of the graduating class of 1992. The incident was followed by a campaign of lying and collusion in cover-up involving even its superintendent. Officials were alleged to have mishandled the subsequent investigation to foster an impression of favouritism toward football players who cheated. In 1994 a survey of students at one university in the UK found that 12% admitted cheating in examinations by copying from a neighbour, 8% had taken in crib sheets, 5% had whispered answers to neighbours.