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| Subject: OZschwitz students use impersonators to sit their exams Mon Aug 10, 2015 9:32 pm | |
| University students are increasingly paying impersonators to sit their exams or smuggling in technology to help them cheat, while other students cannot be trusted to sit in sloping auditoriums because of their willingness to copy answers in multiple choice tests, a new report reveals.
A taskforce at Sydney University has released its first report into academic misconduct after the university was embroiled in several high-profile cheating scandals, including revelations as many as 1000 students from 16 universities paid a Sydney-based company, MyMaster, to ghost write their assignments.
Universities are grappling with the new lengths that students take to gain advantage and, at the University of NSW, all wrist watches, including smart and analogue watches, have now been banned from exam rooms to ensure students do not use technology to cheat.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/students-at-sydney-university-use-impersonators-to-sit-their-exams-20150810-givhs0.html#ixzz3iSwpT62e |
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