Rubrics, Assessment and eProctoring in Education

Scrawled on bathroom walls at Monash University in Melbourne are advertisements in Chinese for essay writing services.

Chinese international students at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) say ghostwriting agencies have obtained their student email addresses without their permission, and are repeatedly by-passing the university's firewall to entice them to cheat.

Chinese student Joyce Fung spent six months delving into the dark recesses of the lucrative essay cheating industry that she says is symptomatic of a deeper malaise in the lucrative education industry.