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Kingston University caught out
Posted on 13th May 2008
Staff at Kingston University have been caught trying to rig the results of an official student satisfaction survey.
Pupils at the London University were instructed to falsify their feedback on the forms for the National Student Survey and embellish their positive opinions in order to push the institute higher up the league table.
Kingston was caught out when a recording of one lecturer telling her students to give the institute a good report or risk getting a poor degree was posted on the student news website Live!.
The lecturer is heard saying: "If Kingston comes down the bottom, no-one's going to want to employ you," the Times reports.
Kingston apologised but said the comments were not supposed to be taken "entirely literally".
Vice chancellor of the university Peter Scott said: "We believe this to be an isolated incident and regret the inappropriate comments made to students about the National Student Survey."