VW official says diesel scandal cleanup will cost it €5.5 billion this year and €2 billion in 2019
Volkswagen's cleanup of a diesel cheating scandal will cost it €5.5 billion ($6.25 billion) in 2018 and around €2 billion in 2019, Chief Financial Officer Frank Witter told German weekly Boersen-Zeitung. Since 2015, the German car-making group has paid more than €27 billion to settle ...
Elite player tapped as new 'shogi' body chief after defamation scandal
The promotional body of the chess-like Japanese board game shogi said Monday it has named a 47-year-old elite player as its new chief in the wake of a scandal that saw a top-ranked player falsely accused of cheating. Yasumitsu Sato will serve the remaining term ...
Chief of 'shogi' body reinstates top player, apologizes over cheating charge
The head of the Japan Shogi Association, Koji Tanigawa, apologized Tuesday to a top-ranked Japanese shogi player who has been cleared of allegations that he cheated using software during official games earlier this year. Tanigawa also said Hiroyuki Miura would be allowed to return to ...
Targeting cheaters, Kyoto University bans use of all watches in entrance exams
Kyoto University, claiming to be the first national university to address cheating via smartwatches and similar digital devices, has announced that starting next year entrance exam takers will be banned from having watches on their desks. The university said Thursday that the new regulations taking ...
Ex-professor indicted on charge of leaking bar exam questions
Prosecutors indicted a former Meiji University law school professor Wednesday on a charge of leaking questions in this year's national bar examinations to a woman who was one of his former students. It is the first time that prosecutors have charged a person over leaking ...
Law schools aren't immune from Campbell's Law
The use of bar passage rates as the basis for determining the amount of subsidies to be given to law schools can fuel unethical behavior.
Professor leaked bar exam questions to student he was 'fond of'
A Meiji University law school professor suspected of leaking questions from this year's national bar examination to a former student said he did so because he was "fond of" her, sources close to the matter said. "I was fond of the female exam-taker, who was ...
Professor admits leaking bar exam questions to student
In a sign of systemic flaws in the nation's law schools, the Justice Ministry files a criminal complaint against a law professor for leaking bar exam questions to one of his students.
Jury finds 11 Atlanta educators guilty of racketeering in cheating scam
Eleven former Atlanta public school educators were found guilty by a jury on Wednesday on charges of racketeering in a sweeping test-cheating scheme. Prosecutors accused a dozen former teachers, principals and administrators of erasing incorrect answers or instructing students to change their answers in order ...
Todai sounds plagiarism alarm with rare cheating report
In a rare move, the University of Tokyo, Komaba, locally known as Todai, has reported that one of its students plagiarized a term report using information from the Internet. It was the first time the prestigious school has openly reported a cheating student. The university ...
When leaps in technology make cheating easier
As economists keep reminding us, the optimal level of cheating isn't zero. Sometimes the costs of monitoring tests and chess games, for example, can outweigh the benefits of the underlying activity.
