I am one of two class representatives for the ICT4D program at the uni. I'm not sure exactly what I have to do, I will read about that later, but in brief I am the proxy between students and staff. I apparently represent the interests of students in our program at meetings and such, I also talk to program coordinators about our course, etc.
My first order of business: rat out a teacher for plagiarism. It turns out that a teacher (a doctor I might add) lectured us for 3 hours; all of which was completely plagiarized from one of a single author's published works. Quite a bad job of it too, she even copied the spelling mistakes; a dead give-away. A very big no-no for any academic, including students. Mostly students.
We had an entire session at the beginning of the year on plagiarism and its extreme severity, especially at the masters level. If found blatantly plagiarizing you will be punished very severely; most likely expelled. Pretty, pretty, pretty harsh [larry david voice].
It will be interesting to see what happens. I will keep you posted [pun intended]. I should note that this is quite an exception, most teachers I have are absolutely brilliant and thoroughly inspiring..... except of course this one........and maybe one more.
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