Page 12 - How not to cheat

For our MBA courses we developed our own case studies
and teaching guides. We used the case study for final

examination purposes, handing it out to the students

three weeks before the examination, which was an open-
book examination with un-sighted questions under

invigilated examination conditions. After this usage the

case could be further used for coursework purposes in the

following session and subsequently for general tutorial
purposes.

Having produced these business case studies, from our

own research, for use on our courses with fully

developed case solutions, or more appropriately,

teaching guides they were then submitted to competition
e.g. The European Foundation for Management

Development (efmd) case writing competition and then

The Case Centre (formerly The European Case Clearing
House) for other academics and professionals

throughout the globe to use.

Unfortunately, the environment had changed university
students were resorting more and more to ‘contract

cheating’ by accessing websites that offered to produce

cheap and not-so-cheap “paid for” course assignments
for them. These burgeoning “essay mills” were in essence

threatening the quality of a British university degree. In

response the Department of Education announced it was

consulting with universities over how to crackdown on
cheating students with new guidance due to be

implemented in September 2017.