'Plagiarism' and the Confucian Heritage Culture (CHC) student : broadening the concept before blaming the student

This paper presents the results of a survey into students preferred learning styles and their propensity to cheat. The survey was conducted in a large Australian University with a high proportion of international students. Anecdotal evidence suggested that students from CHC backgrounds such as China, Singapore, and Malaysia were more likely to cheat and more likely to use surface learning strategies than their westernised peers. The results demonstrate that this is not true of all students and further that perceptions of what constitutes cheating are not the same across cultures