I am sure a lot of students do it for assignments and projects to a certain extent - cut and paste material from the internet. That is plagiarism too.
Buang sekolah is too harsh la, it's 5 years of hard work down the drain.
Failing the student for the subject is fair. The student has to spend extra year/semester to repeat the subject. If he commits the crime the second time, then must buang lah.

The students actually dug their own graves. The question is : whether you want to bury them or not.

The briefs for the project must have been almost identical, if not how could the two students submit designs done by their seniors from previous years. The same design project was given - how could this have happened? Even if the brief is the same but site is different, this would render the designs inapplicable. From my experience from architectural school, the design briefs are different every year, thus copying is out of question.

The students were very daring but stupid enough to copy the designs wholesale. You would have expected architectural students to be smarter and more creative than that...to be able to copy creatively, modify some parts to avoid being recognized.

The examiners, being architects, could have taken more initiative and be more creative too, by not repeating the same design brief on the same site!

This post has been edited by tehtmc: Jan 22 2013, 02:40 PM

Since when did Azarimy become a Prof?