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Academic cheating service

This term is defined in section 5 of the TEQSA Act as follows:

academic cheating service means the provision of work to or the undertaking of work for students, in circumstances where the work:

(a) is, or forms a substantial part of, an assessment task that students are required to personally undertake; or

(b) could reasonably be regarded as being, or forming a substantial part of, an assessment task that students are required to personally undertake.

For more on this see the Federal Court decision TEQSA v Telstra Corporation Ltd [2021] FCA 1202.

Campbell Duncan