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Let's Keep The Human Capacity For Thought

25 November 2006

Anne Susskind's article "Plagiarism rises amid funding cuts" (November 23) raises some interesting questions about how the "job" of being a student has changed. Susskind is correct not to blame students for this. They are meeting the "systems requirements" of modern life: Power Point presentations, dot points, job applications where employers aren't bored by more than two pages, and a school system which requires standardised test results arrived at through multiple choice (guess?) responses... read full story

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