Contracting to Cheat in Higher Education: How to Address Essay Mills and Contract Cheating (Second edition)
Publication Date: 18 Jun 2020
As the UK's independent body safeguarding quality and standards in higher education, QAA works with sector agencies, government departments, regulators, politicians and academics with expertise in academic misconduct to protect academic integrity and prevent cheating and fraud.
QAA, with the support of the Academic Integrity Advisory Group, has developed an Academic Integrity Charter for UK higher education. It is intended to provide a baseline position upon which UK providers, as autonomous institutions, can build their own policies and practices to ensure that every student’s qualification is genuine, verifiable and respected.
We are inviting UK universities and colleges to sign up to this Academic Integrity Charter during the academic year 2020-21.
QAA also runs an Academic Integrity Advisory Group made up of expert academics, sector agencies, organisations and individuals working to protect academic integrity, and student representatives. UK governments, regulators and funders sit as observers.
Publication Date: 18 Jun 2020
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A paper on academic integrity was presented by QAA at the 13th European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) in November 2017.
Publication Date: 30 Jan 2019
In 2017, QAA successfully lodged a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) against the essay mill company UK Essays