[nasional_list] [ppiindia] MBA students are the 'biggest graduate cheats'

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September 21, 2006 12:43 AM ET 
MBA students are the 'biggest graduate cheats'

MBA students are the biggest cheats of all graduate students, with 56 per cent 
admitting to misdemeanours such as using crib notes in exams, plagiarism and 
downloading essays from the web.

The statistic comes from a survey of graduate students to be published in the 
Academy of Management Learning and Education journal. The report is based on 
data from about 5,300 survey respondents at 54 colleges and universities in the 
US and Canada, including 623 students in 32 graduate business programmes.

The report will be unpleasant reading to US business schools, many of which are 
still smarting from the involvement of their alumni in the corporate scandals 
of recent years: Jeffrey Skilling, former chief executive of Enron, received 
his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1979, for example.
As a result, over the past few years many of the top US business schools have 
scrambled to introduce compulsory courses on ethical behaviour at the core of 
their MBA programmes.

It is not just the prevalence of cheating that interests the author of the 
report, Donald McCabe, professor of management and international business at 
Rutgers University, in New Jersey. "What surprises me is how willing these 
students are to admit to it."

Even though the survey is anonymous, he believes some students may not report 
incidents of cheating for fear of being caught out, which would mean the true 
figures are even higher than 56 per cent.

The most significant reason for cheating, he believes, is that students see 
their peers being dishonest, in a highly charged competitive environment where 
the prize is the best company internship or Wall Street job. "The moment they 
see somebody cheating they are placed at a disadvantage." They act by cheating 
themselves, he says.

Mr McCabe, who has been conducting studies on cheating in US colleges for the 
past 16 years, believes the strongest deterrent is for the business school to 
have a strong honour code in place, something that is missing at most business 
schools today.

Dubious though the accolade of being the biggest cheats might be, MBAs can take 
comfort from the fact that graduate students in general - arguably the cream of 
the academic crop - are often prolific cheats. Half the engineering students 
(54 per cent) and science students (50 per cent) questioned also admitted to 
cheating. And even among the most honest group, the social scientists and those 
studying humanities, 39 per cent admitted cheating. 

Moreover, bad as it is in graduate programmes, even more cheating is reported 
in undergraduate degree programmes, says Mr McCabe. And high school students, 
it would seem are even worse.

Copyright 2006 Financial Times 


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