Daniel by virtue of The River Online being an university run newspaper that is paid for out of public money and tuiton fees its moderation policies can be questioned.

The University (and by virtue of this) the river online is bound by certain laws to protect freedom of speech.

Of Course Howard Fredrics post could have broke the Sites TOS. All is really needed is 'This Post has been removed because it violated section xx of our terms of service.' It just adds a layer of accountability to the whole site.which is required by law and good journalistic practice.

Daniel, of course I don't expect names. I also enjoyed the article, I just don't think it's good journalistic practice to use blanket statements like 'Drama students claim they attend every lesson'. Is no criticism allowed on this site? I assumed the whole point of a comments section was to open up debate on the subject.

To Jun Merrett, I apologise if my earlier comment caused offence. Looking back at it, it does seem a little harsh. The article is entertaining and informative, which is probably why it's the most popular article on the site. Congratulations.

I'm just going to say I enjoyed that article.

Unlike some people who decide to throw their own links to "Claims" they've made in the past. I'd like to say the reason why news like this circulates again and again is because you have fresh students joining the university. To them, the target ****ing audience, this is news. I think that having "Solid facts" to back her up would be tricky. Do you expect her to take names of people who admit to this? I'm sure they have more guile than that.

Also, Dr Howard Fredrics, I hope you realise that this is a site with it's own regulations. "Is this Stalin's Russia or Hitler's Germany?" I'm sorry, did you just compare two examples of the greatest depravity of humanity with someone removing your comments? There is no such thing as free speech online.

Anyway. I found this interesting. I'm sorry that I don't keep up with news and that this has been mentioned previously. It'd be nice if people could spend more time devising the point of the article, rather than rushing to type up something of no relevance.

This is what happens when you marketise education. The process of learning becomes an industrial process. Furthermore from my experiance of studying at Kingston there appears to be a hear no evil, see no evil approach to plagarism.

I took some photographs for a persons Kingston dissertation, They referenced the photographs correctly and using the harvard referencing style only to be told by the academic to remove the bibliography entry and pass the photographs of themselves.

Secondly. There was a group project where two people in the group project did nothing. Statements confirming this from three people. Still, Nothing was done.

This article is very vague. Obviously in any university there will be "a number" of students cheating.

It seems like bad journalistic practice to make bold assertions that you can't back up with nice solid facts.

Wahey. Brilliant expose of sneaky students Jun - fully deserves its popularity. Here's hoping the TES will be phoning you in the next few days looking to buy it.

I'm lazy, I'd be the first to admit it, my tutors at undergraduate would verify this fact but I always completed my work honestly and to the best of my ability. I think the fact that students at KU are doing what they are doing detracts from the hard work I put in to get my degree.

If the University does not implement more stringent measures to tackle this problem then a regulatory body should step in.

Some good should come from this story and if it does you should be very proud!

I'm fed up of hearing the same boring "Don't do it, its wrong" arguement from the uni, but equally hate the pathetic excuses I hear from my friends when they try to justify this sort of stuff, so it's nice to hear this subject getting discussed fairly and rationally here.

While I don't really object to people missing the odd lecture or two, its about time someone shone a light on this 'tag teaming' as its refered to here, which to me is just blatent and cavalier cheating. Hopefully this will mean there is more of a crackdown on this kind of behaviour, and perhaps re-open the dicussion on why students are cheating - it doesnt appear to just be laziness as i first thought!

As a conscientious student who has studied both abroad and within the UK, I find the behaviour of these students completely shocking. Considering the amount they (or, most likely, their parents) pay every year for their education, and the rising top-up fees, wasting it by cheating and (even worse) getting away with it, is absolutely despicable. Even worse than that, this just proves that the ability to go into higher education is no longer a privilege for many but a course of action, all in the aim of getting onto the career ladder with as little effort as possible.

The students I came into contact with abroad were so thrilled to have the opportunity to learn, they worked three times as hard as anyone I've met in this country. Many of them were unable to afford their school fees, were on bursary funds and working several part-time jobs, desperate to stay and learn. It saddens me greatly that in our own country students like these are few and far between, instead apparently choosing the easiest way out because they just can't be bothered to put in the work.

Definitely a news worthy article - this is clearly a growing problem, especially if they feel it's so easy to trick the system. The university needs to sit up and take note. These students aren't only cheating themselves but they're cheating other hard-working students around them and giving the title 'lazy student bums' a whole new meaning.