What could we do against academic fraud in university courses?
In my previous blog post , I described how the University of Tartu cheats the state and the society. In brief, the rules of the University and also a law of the country settle that students must be graded according to how their achieved skills match the expected learning outcomes. In an ideal case, the list of expected learning outcomes of every course should define what grade will correspond to which possible sets of achieved skills. Still the authorities of certain institutes of the university (e.g., the Institute of Computer Science where I worked) demand that the lecturers give positive grades to at least a certain percentage of students or even that the distribution of grades be "nice" (whatever it means). The expected learning outcomes are formally fixed by the authorities for every course as officially regulated, but in reality, following these regulations is more or less a spectacle. I have never seen an authority of that institute being worried about the corresponden