AT LEAST one website offering to help Australian pharmacy students to cheat has been blocked by the Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency (TEQSA).
Last week the agency announced it had blocked access to 40 academic cheating websites, that collectively received an average of close to 450,000 visits a month.
A TEQSA spokesperson told Pharmacy Daily that at least one of the sites "was advertising academic cheating services to pharmacy services at Australian higher education institutions".
"While TEQSA does not have information about whether pharmacy students used these illegal services, we encourage all institutions to review their academic integrity and misconduct policies regularly, and to ensure expectations around academic integrity are regularly communicated to students," a spokesperson said.
TEQSA has warned students who are using the sites that they could put their future careers in jeopardy.
"If you use academic cheating services you might not learn all the skills you need for your career," the agency said.
"You also risk losing your money, your enrolment, and even your student visa.
"In some cases, you could be blackmailed by the cheating service providers who might threaten to tell your institution or a future employer that you cheated."
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