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ANU apologises, reverses penalty for students after lecturer punished class of 300 for alleged plagiarism
The Australian National University (ANU) has apologised to about 300 students who were told that they would all be penalised on an assignment because some of their classmates had allegedly cheated.
Key points:
- The ANU reverses a decision to penalise hundreds of students after it was unable to figure out who was behind alleged plagiarism of an assignment
- A computer sciences class was told that they would all punished for “massive” academic misconduct, but the university has now apologised and said it was a miscommunication
- The Computer Science Students Association says it is relieved to hear of the reversed decision
The third-year computer sciences class thought the academic year had ended, until they received an unexpected email on Monday…
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