One in six UK students admit cheating in online exams

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.