[Air-l] Back to Turnitin

[Jose-Carlos Mariategui]

A recent memo in LSE about turnitin stated

2.2     JISC <Joint Information Systems Committee> is a national body
responsible, among other things, for administering the UK HE <Higher
Education> sector¹s use of the TurnItin plagiarism detection software,
licensed from a US company, IParadigms.  The School pays an annual
subscription fee for its use of TurnItin based on fte <Full time Equivalent>
student numbers: this was £4,690 for the 2006/07 session.

LSE has about 8000 students (not sure what the full time equivalent is)

You might also want to link to our project
http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/Departments/owt/Research/sdaw/

Edgar Whitley <E.A.Whitley at lse.ac.uk> (by way of Jose-Carlos Mariategui)