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Why you shouldn't copy your classmates!

Geoff Riley

16th May 2015

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Students beware: if you rely too much on your classmates, you all suffer. That is the central message of a new five-minute film about prizewinning research, which looks at the behaviour of economics and
management students at Bocconi University in Milan.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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