1,500 students at Irish universities have been caught cheating, plagiarising work, or using 'essay mills' since 2019.
The highest numbers were reported at Trinity College Dublin and Technological University of Dublin (TU Dublin) with more than 1,000 instances of students trying to cheat at exams or in assignments at the two universities, the Independent reports. There were 33 cases of suspected exam-cheating and 138 cases of students plagiarising work for their assignments during the most recent academic year.
TU Dublin said it had dealt with 568 cases where students were deemed to have breached exam regulations or plagiarised work. TU Dublin said the cases the university had dealt with resulted in the expulsion of two students from the college during the past three years.
