Parents or friends who proofread and make minor changes to students' assignments could find themselves caught up by a new law cracking down on academic cheating, universities have warned.Contract cheating — paying to have an assignment or exam done by someone else — is on the rise in Australian universities
Universities Australia chief executive Catriona Jackson said while the bill was needed to send a"powerful signal" to contract cheating providers, some of its wording was too broad. As thousands of students around Australia throw their academic caps into the sky, many of them will be left in debt.
Universities are in many cases, a place for collaborative cheating anyway? It comes with the territory, get ahead at any expense while universities make millions and also turnout many protestors and activists in the process.
It isn't the English speakers who cheat. It's the Foreign Students who can't keep up to the expected standard, which keeps being lowered to accommodate the Foreign element.
What sort of fine for paying someone else to sit in your place for your exams? It happened far too often, while I was sitting my own exams. The Foreign Students, paid for Answers, for Assignments, for someone to sit in the exam in their place. 1st language was not English.
That would be the Chinese cheats, yes?
As a former freelance 'editor/proofreader' who quit in disgust, I can vouch for the fact that most of these gigs are actual writing-from-scratch for students who couldn't split an infinitive if their lives depended on it.