Minister for Education Jason Clare Has announced that forty commercial academic cheating sites, which are accessed 450,000 times a month from Australia, have been blocked by new enforcement action from TEQSA.
TEQSA has worked with the Communications Alliance to develop new protocols to facilitate this process under the Telecommunications Act, streamlining our ability to disrupt access to websites that are in breach of Australian law.
Cheating websites are used to sell students essays or assignments or accept payment for someone to sit exams on a student’s behalf.
Illegal cheating services threaten academic integrity and expose students to criminals, who often attempt to blackmail students into paying large sums of money.
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