Academic integrity

Universities should target major platforms that continue to host adverts for contract cheating companies, finds UCL report

While ChatGPT is not officially available in the country, many users bypass restrictions or use similar tools

Those with passionate convictions must be willing to concede their arguments may be flawed or even wrong if useful debate is to happen on campus, says UCL president Michael Spence

If Stanford’s now-departed president had fully faced up to dubious practices in his lab and insisted on corrections, his infractions of research integrity could have been forgiven, says David Sanders

Review of surveys involving more than 4,600 participants suggests rates of academic misconduct rocketed during Covid-19 pandemic

Tools developed to stamp out misconduct have been shown to be biased and inaccurate. Will AI creators themselves be forced to do it better?

Once it becomes common knowledge that a UK master’s degree is worthless, the sector will be in trouble, says an anonymous academic

Assistant economics professor says he replicated results using a different method but journal editors ignored requests for correction

Head of world’s biggest testing firm discusses expansion, artificial intelligence and major changes to the TOEFL and GRE 

Tool developed by edtech giant used by customers 65 million times in three months since launch

Researchers say unsupervised online exams can provide ‘valid assessments of student learning’

Assessment rationales have not kept pace with AI translation and writing support tools, conference hears

Methods used by new tools ‘inadvertently flag’ work written by those who tend to use smaller variety of words and phrases

Based solely on a Turnitin report, Emily was condemned for using ChatGPT to write her essay. Except that she hadn’t, writes Daniel Sokol

Students’ sometimes unexpected use of AI, from generating emails to translating their original work, is encouraging a ‘rethink’ by academics

Scholarly ethics expert Yuehong (Helen) Zhang says the region’s approach to research ethics is changing

‘Lottery’ for mandated replication studies would encourage ‘greater care’ over ‘datasets’, Australian researchers argue

Once-largest US online university, embracing new public partner after Arkansas rejection, agrees its for-profit sector deserves scrutiny

Students may be using homework help service to gain ‘solutions to assessment tasks’, Teqsa worries

Delaware associate professor of marine science faces sacking after top journals retracted her articles, but she claims a faculty report exonerates her

As dozens of student-athletes come under investigation, expert predicts major harms on campus from national embrace of sports betting

Universities have focused on impact on assessments, but internet pioneer tells THE conference changes must extend to teaching and research

Companies that implied students could purchase essays and pass them off as their own work told to remove claims by watchdog

Beijing’s censorship of 2018 gene-edited babies case has prevented ‘crucial’ research ethics dialogue, says scholar

New version of OpenAI’s chatbot can interpret images and tutor students

Linking salary rises to publication record has fuelled research ethics violations, with early career academics struggling the most

Students turning to AI to generate answers undermines business case of contract cheating industry

Edtech giant prepares to offer customers new tool from April as it grapples with challenges posed by ChatGPT

Edtech giants and plucky start-ups are vying to create potentially lucrative tools to combat the use of AI in assessments, but will they cause more problems than they solve?

Ombudsmen need more resources and voluntary investigators need recognition if fabrication is finally to be taken seriously, says sleuth

AI becoming smarter and more accessible should be viewed not only as a cheating risk, say experts

‘Renaissance’ ideals of integrity may mean little to the sharing economy generation, Australian conference hears

AI is close to being able to write students’ essays for them. But that will not help them understand why they think what they think, says Jane Rosenzweig

Australian study suggests simply reinstating on-campus tests may not have much effect

The police-catch-punish approach neglects to address plagiarists’ misunderstanding of what higher education is all about, says Sioux McKenna

Members hope closer cooperation will help disrupt innovative multinational fraudsters that target and blackmail vulnerable students

Researcher encourages universities to talk openly about Fomo and the risk it poses to young students

Sorin Cîmpeanu accused of ‘trying to legislate in his own interest’ for draft law that would introduce amnesty for plagiarism more than three years ago

Government also set to introduce effective amnesty on doctoral plagiarism and loosen rules on candidates’ relatives from serving on hiring and promotion committees

Australian High Commission in India web page on education had link to US company offering to write dissertations, application letters and more

Universities urged to adhere to set of 12 principles as key quality mechanism comes under increased strain because of large workloads

Critics highlight historic plagiarism allegations and ‘flawed’ selection process

Researchers warn of knock-on effects for international publishing and student and staff mobility

Institution’s party chief dismissed in controversy over lecturers sent overseas to get doctoral qualifications

New cooperative approach targets biggest essay mills without need for court action

New cheating figures highlight need for new solutions as ‘under-pressure’ students find new ways to access banned websites

A third say cheating should be seen as only mildly wrong or not wrong at all

Nieces of nation’s incoming justice minister accused of faking research papers to help gain Ivy League admission

Researcher debunks idea that assignment writers are typically based in the Global South

Merger of two of the biggest plagiarism checkers will help combat more sophisticated forms of cheating, Andreas Ohlson says

‘Essay mills are now illegal entities, and you should not carry their advertising,’ says minister’s letter to sector

Campaigners say English legislation unlikely to result in many prosecutions but will change student outlook on essay mills

One in 14 students who took tests monitored by ProctorU last year were caught breaking the rules

Joint statement released by Russell Group and Group of Eight amid concerns about ‘overkill’ regulations

As investigations into a third Romanian prime minister stall, experts say awareness and consistent policies are needed

Academics experiment with allowing undergraduates to text each other during assessments, and get positive response