Student malpractice up a quarter on 2016
Students found cheating during GCSE and A-Level results rose by a quarter in England during the summer of 2017 compared to the same period a year previously. Exams regulator Ofqual found 2,715 penalties were issued for malpractice compared to 2,180. Most issues were with mobile phones taken into exams, with four in 10 student penalised. […]
Universities urged to use smarter cheating detection software
The university standards watchdog, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) has urged Universities to use smarter cheating detection software and to block certain websites in a bid to stop students buying essays online and submitting them as their own. Thousands of students are believed to be using ‘essay-mill’ websites, paying hundreds of pounds for the papers. […]