Quo Vadis higher education

For years, doctors around the world have cheated while taking exams. A recent CNN investigation found doctors taking their board exams in radiology memorizing test questions, creating sophisticated banks of what are known as and ldquo;recalls and rdquo;. Cheating at colleges and universities is nothing new. In 1964, a report of large-scale cheating in-volving 5,000 students studying inaround100 insti-tutions was formally tabled. Fully 75% of the stu-dents were found guilty of various degrees of and ldquo;ac-ademic dishonesty and rdquo;.Recently, the Josephson Institute of Ethics in an appraisal of 40,000 high school students, found admittance of cheating in 60%. The Harvard University which prides itself on incubating America's elite in the world of law, business and politics, revealed that 125 students taking a course were suspected of cheating on a single class.