I know why students cheat. It’s time for Australian universities to do something about it
Guy Curtis
Studies reveal the psychological and economic factors behind contract cheating, which can help us stamp it out
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How the pursuit of profit is devaluing Australian degrees – Full Story podcast
Education reporter Caitlin Cassidy tells Nour Haydar university academics claim they are being pressured into passing students with no grasp of ‘basic’ English to maximise revenue
Degrees devalued
Lures and violent threats: old school cheating still rampant at Australian universities, even as AI rises
Integrity experts say sites offering cheating services to students are hard to trace, and some are run by criminals willing to make threats of violence
‘Nobody is blind to it’: mass cheating through AI puts integrity of Australian universities at risk, academics claim
Staff and students say failure to challenge wholesale use of genAI threatens to make degrees all but worthless
Holdout states given deadline to sign up to school funding agreement
NSW, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia will now have until end of September to agree to proposed 2.5% federal increase or keep old agreement
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