One in every six university students in the UK have admitted to cheating while taking online exams in the past academic year but only 5 per cent of them were caught, according to a survey.
In further evidence that the scale of cheating in higher education appears to be becoming an ever-greater problem, a third of the 900 undergraduates who responded to the poll said they believed it was only mildly wrong or not wrong at all.
Alpha Academic Appeals – a legal service that helps students contest university decisions – commissioned the survey earlier this month.
