By Andrew Barbour. How do you identify fraud, waste, and abuse when your procurement office handles more than a million transactions a year and $2.2 billion in disbursements? Manually, if you’re Stanford University, just like most institutions of higher education do. More...
By Meris Stansbury. A program used by Chinese students, owned by test giant ACT, and recognized by admissions offices at many U.S. institutions has been found by Reuters to encourage cheating among its students. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. An audit report released earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General could potentially trigger efforts in Congress to eliminate a critical legal requirement for college programs to receive federal Title IV student grants and loans. More...By Ray Bendici. Just hours before it was scheduled to be administered in June, the ACT college admission test was canceled in South Korea and Hong Kong. Approximately 5,500 international students were turned away from testing centers after ACT Inc. announced that it had received credible evidence that test materials in these regions had been leaked in advance, thus compromising the integrity of the exams. More...
By David Batty. Bogus degree-awarding institutions are on the increase, with one being no more than a shopfront and others having no physical presence at all. More...
By . Students at a medical college in Thailand have been caught using spy cameras linked to smartwatches to cheat during exams. They used wireless spycams in eyeglasses to capture exam questions, transmit them to associates elsewhere and receive responses through linked smartwatches. More...
By Natalie Marsh. Around 70% of US education institutions expressed concern about fraudulent practice among education agencies, according to a recent report, with over half of the report’s survey respondents saying they find out about bad practice through the media. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. A faculty research study from the University of California Riverside reveals trends between student engagement and cheating in online learning. More...
By . Most scientists and medical researchers behave ethically. However, in recent years, the number of high-profile scandals in which researchers have been exposed as having falsified their data raises the issue of how we should deal with research fraud. More...
By Carl Straumsheim. Even if they could cheat without being penalized, most students will take an honest stab at homework questions, study finds. Read more...
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