ANU apologises, reverses penalty for students after lecturer punished class of 300 for alleged plagiarism
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DecDecember 2020 at 9:00am
The Australian National University says it wants to learn from the incident and do better in future .
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The Australian National University (ANU) has apologised to about 300 students who were told that they would all be penalised on an assignment because some of their classmates had allegedly cheated.
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The ANU reverses a decision to penalise hundreds of students after it was unable to figure out who was behind alleged plagiarism of an assignment
A computer sciences class was told that they would all punished for massive academic misconduct, but the university has now apologised and said it was a miscommunication