May 2022
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This conference was a timely opportunity to discuss the way forward for tackling cheating in HE - as well as implications for academic integrity.
Delegates examined latest thinking on practical approaches and key challenges - and discussed the implementation and implications of provisions included in the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill that would outlaw essay mills.
Overall, the agenda brought out latest thinking on:
- current trends - cheating in HE and implications for academic integrity
- tackling cheating - legislation, alternative approaches, detection, enforcement, and adapting to new threats
- prevention, support and due process - improving student understanding, mentoring vulnerable students, and fair treatment for those accused of misconduct
- digital assessment - evolution in the context of the pandemic, academic integrity, student equality and diversity, and regulation in a changing landscape
- devolved policy - the outlook for legislation
- policy and practice - next steps for addressing cheating in higher education
We were pleased to be able to include keynote sessions with Nick Holland, Competition and Registration Manager, Office for Students; Gareth Crossman, Head of Policy and Communications, QAA; Professor Michael Draper, Dean, Regulations and Student Cases, Swansea University; Member for Academic Integrity, QAA Advisory Committee; and Consultant Expert, Education Unit, Council of Europe; and Dr Stephen Atherton, Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching and Student Experience in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Aberystwyth University.
The conference was an opportunity for stakeholders to consider the issues alongside key policy officials who attended from DAERA; DfE, NI; The Scottish Government; and the Welsh Government.