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Student visa cancellations could double and hit a new record this year.
Given the increase in the number of student visa cancellations in recent months, the message from the department of immigration to student visa applicants and visa holders seems to be that although visas are granted quickly they are also likely to be cancelled easily.
In the seven months to March of this year, some 9000 student visas have been cancelled by the DIBP, according to a recent report in The Australian. Compared to two years ago where the figures stood at between 8000 to 9000 cancellations, it is looking like student visa cancellations could hit 15,000 this year.
Student visas may be cancelled on various grounds, including plagiarism. The Australian’s report highlighted the case of Shaheryar Khan, who had his visa cancelled because he was reported to have copied a number of his assessments directly from internet sources without attribution.
According to the report, Mr Khan who sought a review of DIBPs decision at the AAT, blamed his school Technical Education Development Instituted (TEDI) for “not advising students on how to source information from an online source or provide information about different referencing styles required for assignments…, [and] said he had been encouraged to find the answers to assignment questions on the internet.”
In his decision, Tribunal member Stuart Webb acknowledged that TEDI could have done better, stating “The tribunal is not aware of any warning provided the applicant about his conduct in completing assignments in the manner that he has,” adding “His plagiarised answers were not identified or corrected on the assignment copies as seen by the tribunal.”
However, Mr Webb affirmed the delegate’s decision and rejected Mr Khan’s claim that “he was unaware of plagiarism because he came from Pakistan.”
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Friday, 01 April 2016Everyone knows Indian nature,first go and wipe your nose,then try to make comment. Racist
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Thursday, 31 March 2016
I'm pretty sure each student signs a declaration prior to the commencement of study that they will not plagiarise work, so it is not as if the student was not given the opportunity to understand the definition.
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Wednesday, 30 March 2016
Cant understand
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Thursday, 31 March 2016
Even if he was not warned officially, I'm sure they would have been informed somehow. It's obviously unethical in any event.
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Friday, 01 April 2016
This is 100% student mistake. Comments not needed why.
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Wednesday, 06 April 2016
Why would the course provider not require the student to re take that subject/s if the student has failed? Plagiarism only leads to failing that assignment and you lose the relevant marks as punishment. He is compliant with his course requirements, he is attending, he is submitting his work so the only relevance is he may have failed his subject because his assignment didn't count.
Secondly, if the plagiarism took place it is most likely in his first assignment so why not guide him and instruct him to follow the course hand book which will have the instructions on plagiarism? He could have been instructed to resubmit the relevant assignments and certainly should have been counselled on this.
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Student was right. Pakistan knows only terrorism and Plagerism was never heard of.