AN Oxford lecturer set an English exam that had been given to students at another university three years previously, a newspaper has claimed.
University newspaper The Cherwell has alleged that two English literature papers, one set by Glasgow University in 1999, and the other by Oxford University last year, were very similar.
It reported that 80 per cent of the Glasgow paper on literature from 1780 to 1840 reappeared almost verbatim in the Oxford finals exam last year on the Romantics, 1740 to 1832. The same quotations from Wordsworth, Byron, Blake and Shelley appeared in both exams and were followed by the same questions, The Cherwell claims.
The similarities came to light after two students, one at Oxford and a former undergraduate at Glasgow, compared notes. Dr Duncan Wu, a fellow at Oxford's St Catherine's College, who previously taught English Literature at Glasgow in 1999, set the original exam paper.
A university spokesman said great importance was set on the fairness of its examinations.
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