Experts fear a cheating black market involving international students and visa fraud is contributing to rising levels of students caught cheating.
Thousands of students have been accused of cheating and paying others to do their work as the record number of misconduct cases forces universities to beef up their investigation departments.
Guy Curtis, an academic integrity expert from University of Western Australia, said universities had gotten much better at detecting contract cheating and were catching people even before markers had even looked at an assignment. “The system would be such that a person coming into Australia who might be involved in a low-paid job or sex trafficking, comes to Australia on a student visa,” he said. “And part of the package for people who are exploiting that student as a worker is that the student’s enrolment in university is maintained by the fact they continue to pass courses, because the work is done by other people.”
“We know that blackmail happens,” she said. “We’ve seen direct evidence where people have written to TEQSA and said ‘I did all this student’s work and they didn’t pay me, I want you to take away their degrees’.“ an uptick in aggression directed at the staff who do the really important work of detection.”
“Alongside a number of indicators of misconduct, we also use a range of technologies to detect and investigate cases,” a spokeswoman said.
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