I don’t really have any big issue with the students self-regulating exam rule violations, but if it is to have any hope of working, the students would then also need to have supervisors at the exam, if only because it’s ludicrous to think that honest people that are focused on their own exam will be aware enough of their surroundings to catch others cheating, let alone call them out when they’re likely in their close social circle.
As the name implies, this was originally an “honour system”, based around individual students self-regulating based on an idea of honour. That probably worked well enough in the 1800’s and early 1900’s, but it sure as hell won’t work in a modern society that values “getting ahead at all costs” above near anything else (as the numbers show).
I don’t really have any big issue with the students self-regulating exam rule violations, but if it is to have any hope of working, the students would then also need to have supervisors at the exam, if only because it’s ludicrous to think that honest people that are focused on their own exam will be aware enough of their surroundings to catch others cheating, let alone call them out when they’re likely in their close social circle.
As the name implies, this was originally an “honour system”, based around individual students self-regulating based on an idea of honour. That probably worked well enough in the 1800’s and early 1900’s, but it sure as hell won’t work in a modern society that values “getting ahead at all costs” above near anything else (as the numbers show).