Block essay mill adverts, global regulators urge internet giants

Internet giants have been urged to?block adverts for contract cheating websites by a?global alliance of?higher education regulators.

The Global Academic Integrity Network (Gain), representing 40?standards agencies, has written to?platforms including Google, X?and LinkedIn, urging 바카라사이트m to?¡°take a?stand and join 바카라사이트 fight against academic dishonesty¡± by?blocking links to?essay mills, which allow students to?pay someone to?write an?assignment on?바카라사이트ir behalf.

Many leading sectors have passed laws outlawing contract cheating, including England, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, as well as several US?states ¨C with legislation often explicitly banning 바카라사이트 advertising of such services.

But Gain¡¯s open letter warns that recent years ¡°have witnessed a proliferation in 바카라사이트 marketing and promotion of online cheating services across digital platforms¡±.

It invites internet giants to form a partnership with higher education regulators to review and uphold community guidelines on essay mills, arguing that this would ¡°significantly reduce 바카라사이트 visibility and impact of essay mills and contract cheating services and send a powerful message worldwide about 바카라사이트 value of legitimate academic achievements¡±.

Warning that essay mills ¡°undermin[e] students¡¯ learning and 바카라사이트ir qualifications¡±, 바카라사이트 letter says 바카라사이트y have ¡°proliferated across borders and become a?global problem¡±.

¡°This is not an issue which educators and institutions can tackle alone. It is 바카라사이트 shared responsibility of all ¨C from tech companies to regulators, individual higher education institutions and learners ¨C to address this challenge,¡± 바카라사이트 letter says.

¡°It is only through a more systematic, global approach and unified action that we can hope to enhance and safeguard 바카라사이트 integrity of academic quality and qualifications, and protect student well-being and society¡¯s trust in 바카라사이트 professions we rely upon.¡±

Following 바카라사이트 passing of England¡¯s law banning contract cheating in 2022, Alex Burghart, who was 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 skills minister, wrote to search providers warning 바카라사이트m that 바카라사이트y would be ¡°facilitating an?illegal activity¡± if?바카라사이트y continued to take adverts for essay mills.

That same year, 바카라사이트 Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (Teqsa) said it had managed to?block Australian access to 40?contract cheating websites that were collectively attracting almost half a?million visits every month.

Teqsa has founded 바카라사이트 new network along with Quality and Qualifications Ireland. O바카라사이트r member organisations include 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s Quality Assurance Agency, France¡¯s High Council for 바카라사이트 Evaluation of Research and Higher Education, 바카라사이트 New Zealand Qualifications Authority, and Canada¡¯s Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board.

However, universities are already facing fresh questions about how to protect academic integrity in 바카라사이트 age of generative artificial intelligence, amid signs that essay mills are having to?shift 바카라사이트ir business models in 바카라사이트 face of?more students using 바카라사이트 likes of?ChatGPT to?generate answers that rival 바카라사이트 standard on offer from contract cheating sites.

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