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Podcasts
Face-to-face exams can reduce cheating: podcast
An academic urges universities to return to ‘traditional’ face-to-face exams to lessen students' cheating. Universities across Australia have seen student…
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News
Cheating exploded to an ‘alarming’ level at UNSW during the pandemic
The level of student cheating at the University of NSW exploded to an “alarming” level during the Covid-19 pandemic, with…
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Faculty Focus
How does student cheating impact lecturers? podcast
With the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns, universities have been forced to undertake online examinations which has made it…
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News
Cheating has ‘never been easier’, say uni students
Over two-thirds of Australian university students believe that the switch to online learning has made getting away with cheating easier,…
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Opinion
Privacy pitfalls for the university sector to avoid when choosing edtech for online exams – opinion
Every other week, two types of articles about online exams seem to come out: either students are being caught cheating…
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Policy & Reform
Who’s cheating at uni, and what are we going to do about it?
During your entire career as a student, did you ever cheat on an assignment, an essay or in an exam?…
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News
Contract cheating draft legislation too heavy-handed: unis, students
A student helping out a struggling classmate might be worried they’re incriminating themselves should draft legislation to prohibit academic cheating…
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Opinion
Proposed contract cheating legislation a good first step but more action needed
Contract cheating refers to students outsourcing their assessments to professional cheating services or through arrangements with friends or peers. A…
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News
US universities considering expelling students in scam
The University of Southern California says it may expel students tied to a US college-admissions scam after reviewing their records.…
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Industry & Research
Attitudes towards plagiarism culturally relative: study
Though all cultures perceive contract cheating as wrong, nearly half of ESL students see plagiarism – a subtler form of cheating – as…
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Policy & Reform
A contract cheating update
More than 5 to 10 per cent of students engage in some form of contract cheating. In a tutorial of 20…
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