The onus of plagiarism is on the individuals

Plagiarism is a dirty word in academic circles and generates quite a lot of discussion on campuses

There have been many documented incidents of plagiarized research papers published in the academic journals by professors of acclaimed universities, doctoral candidates plagiarizing research findings in their dissertations and postgraduates passing off other people's theses as their own. Undergraduates have been caught copying other people's theses verbatim, in their entirety and college students plagiarized their coursework reports.

Many social commentators are blaming problems such as a superficial evaluation system where professor promotion is based on having a minimum number of published works, lax supervision by faculty who turned a blind eye to plagiarized works, the rigid demand of writing a thesis in undergraduate programs and lack of knowledgeable superiors who can sift through and identify the plagiarized works of their peers.