How are they going to end up at university when they are getting bad marks at school?
Was just reading a first year's email chain from a lecturer asking me on advice on how to handle it, student had plagiarized so he gave 0, and the student complained. After replying to the student that it's suspected plagiarism and that if they wanted to take it further then he'd have to pass it to higher ups, the student just writes this page long story about how they pray to god for forgiveness and that god should give the lecturer the compassion in his heart to forgive, etc. and allow rewrite. I just went wtf and said he should let 0 stand and if any issue just pass up chain as is protocol.
You find so many of these students plagiarize like mad and expect to get away with it, because their high school teachers never did any checks, and if they do certificates government/technikons at the higher certificate level basically avoid assessments so they don't increase the failure rate above the large percentage it already is.
This still happens at Btech as well, of the say 50 students, 20 come from TVET (non academic background), and pretty much all of them fail/get thrown out by the half year, and I know in my year at least 8 of them committed plagiarism if they bothered to hand anything in. It's messed up that Btech has to accept TVET students when diploma should have already filtered them, but government policies. And then in Bsc it's the same as diploma, you have your quotas, which basically deny other students that would not have wasted the resources because "they're privileged". Tertiary education is not a right, and government should not be using quotas, instead there should be a merit system, those from low socio-economic backgrounds that do well should have the full thing paid as long as subjects are passed, and if marks are not high enough to get in, design other programs that deal with teaching and assessing the required knowledge, rather than wasting needed academic skills, no need to have the student present before they got through a communications class because whatever they present is probably garbage (I remember the rainbow background presentations text with reverse rainbow of first year, those were horrendous).
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