An academic urges universities to return to ‘traditional’ face-to-face exams to lessen students' cheating.  Universities across Australia have seen student cheating explode since the Covid-19 pandemic, with UNSW detecting more than double the amount of cheating since 2019. According to ...

The level of student cheating at the University of NSW exploded to an “alarming” level during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the number of serious plagiarism cases investigated up by 71 per cent to 769 last year compared with the previous ...

With the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns, universities have been forced to undertake online examinations which has made it easier for students to cheat.  According to Associate Professor from the University of South Australia Christopher Deneen, students cheating on ...

Over two-thirds of Australian university students believe that the switch to online learning has made getting away with cheating easier, new research shows. An analysis of over 1,000 student responses by independent research firm Student Edge found many had either ...

Every other week, two types of articles about online exams seem to come out: either students are being caught cheating remotely, or students (and some teachers) fear that the online vigilance of remote exams has the potential to be taken ...

During your entire career as a student, did you ever cheat on an assignment, an essay or in an exam? Did you ever share your science results with a classmate, ask a friend or family member to proofread your essay, ...

A student helping out a struggling classmate might be worried they’re incriminating themselves should draft legislation to prohibit academic cheating services move ahead unchanged. That’s one of the potential problems with the scope of the bill's details spelled out by ...

Contract cheating refers to students outsourcing their assessments to professional cheating services or through arrangements with friends or peers. A typical example would be a student paying for an essay which is then submitted as their own work. As classroom ...

The University of Southern California says it may expel students tied to a US college-admissions scam after reviewing their records. The school said it has already "placed holds on the accounts of students who may be associated with the alleged ...

Though all cultures perceive contract cheating as wrong, nearly half of ESL students see plagiarism – a subtler form of cheating – as less problematic. They think universities make ‘too much of a fuss of people cheating’ in this manner. A fifth of ...