Contract cheating: a survey of Australian university staff

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2019, Pages 1857-1873

  Harper, Rowena ^a   Bretag, T ^a   Ellis, C ^b   Newton, P ^c   Rozenberg, P ^d   Saddiqui, S ^a   van Haeringen, K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic integrity; contract cheating; higher education; plagiarism; third party cheating

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045468640     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2018.1462789     Document Type: Article

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