Thailand’s cheating lecturers – the stupid, lazy academics faking their research

Thailand’s cheating lecturers are under investigation as eight of the kingdom’s universities claim that a third of lecturers have submitted research papers that they bought on the Internet and claimed as their work.

Sirirurg Songsivilai, permanent secretary of the department of higher education, told the media that…

“Thirty-four universities have conducted separate investigations into research papers submitted by more than 100 lecturers. These are all suspected of being plagiarised from work commercially produced by foreign institutes that specialise in research works for sale.”

Thailand’s cheats outdo hard workers

Sirirurg’s office has received reports from eight universities so far, describing fraud and academic theft by 33 of Thailand’s cheating lecturers.

This is not plagiarism. Nothing was copied or stolen from the original writers. This is high-quality…