Online students tend to be older, which might explain why new data suggest they’re less likely to cheat. But even with these data, the evidence is mixed.
If universities’ main aim is securing funding for their survival, learning takes a back seat.
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Universities’ pursuit of stable income streams means they are corrupting the reason they exist in the first place.
It’s impossible to compare student work against a database of sources because each pay-for plagiarised assignment is a bespoke creation.
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We could be fooled into thinking pay-for plagiarism is a modern, high-tech invention. However, the internet merely supports the logistics.
Selling students short comes at an important time for higher education in Australia: funding uncertainties and questions over academic standards have never been more pronounced.
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Richard Hil’s Selling Students Short: Why You Won’t Get the Education You Deserve is a timely exposé of the difficult conditions facing students at Australia’s increasingly corporatised universities.
Have cheating and plagiarism increased in universities as a symptom of more international students or just of more students?
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While Four Corners shed some much-needed light on long-standing problems in higher education, these problems aren’t reserved for international students.
When thinking about academic standards, it’s important to think about the incentives to keep standards high - or low.
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The recent furore about academic standards in Australian higher education – including Monday’s damning Four Corners expose – has the potential to bring not only desperately needed attention, but actual change, to the sector.
International students provide universities with a large chunk of their revenue - but at what cost?
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A new report from the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption says Australian universities have become increasingly reliant on income from fee-paying international students, and is letting academic standards slide for the valuable income stream.
One sure-fire way to make sure your students are completing their assessment for themselves is to make them perform practical work exercises rather than write essays.
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The essay, as the primary form of assessment, should be dead. This is the kind of comment that terrifies academics everywhere – but it is an idea that I think we all need to consider. The “news” that there…