The Spectator

Barometer | 26 February 2011

This week's barometer

issue 26 February 2011

University challenge


An analysis of university applications has suggested that 30,000 students had committed plagiarism when writing personal statements on their forms. An earlier trawl through applications found:

175 applicants were inspired to apply for medicine by an infirm grandfather
234 had developed an interest in medicine after ‘burning a hole in my pyjamas aged 8’
370 professed ‘a fascination for the way the human body works’.

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