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These are the 5 British universities where students were found to have cheated the most

Jan 2, 2016, 19:09 IST

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Around 50,000 university students have been caught cheating over the last three years and students that do no originate from the European Union are four times more likely to cheat.

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That's according to The Times newspaper, which obtained figures from Freedom of Information requests from the government. The data looked at 129 universities in Britain over the last three years.

The cheating is so prolific amongst some non-EU students that 75% of postgraduates found guilty of plagiarism at Queen Mary University of London. A third of those postgraduates originated from China. At Staffordshire University, more than half of students that were found cheating were from non-EU countries.

And here are the top five universities where students cheat the most, according to The Times data.

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