This section of the toolkit helps you evaluate and benchmark your policies and practices to support good learning, teaching and research.
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This section of the toolkit helps you evaluate and benchmark your policies and practices to support good learning, teaching and research.
This section of the toolkit explores assessment security and the risks associated with different forms of assessment. The section includes frameworks for academic integrity and assessment security, and showcases different ways of securing assessment to provide assurance that they are completed with integrity.
In March, TEQSA published our revised Academic Integrity Toolkit. The updated toolkit includes two new sections as well as new and updated case studies to support higher education providers in promoting academic integrity and managing academic misconduct at their institution.
Updated sections:
New sections:
Today we’re pleased to add new and updated resources to the toolkit, including a Good Practice Note, and guides related to substantiating contract cheating, detecting AI in texts, and the common roles and responsibilities relating to academic integrity.
These resources add to the case studies and resources we published in March. The Academic Integrity Toolkit can be found in the Guide and resources section of our website.
The project team which delivered the toolkit’s update was led by Associate Professor Guy Curtis (University of Western Australia). Thank you to the project team for their work.
The Australian Government released the Net Zero in Government Operations Strategy in November 2023, setting out the overall approach and action required by Commonwealth entities to achieve the APS Net Zero 2030 target.
The Net Zero in Government Operations Strategy represents a strong commitment by the Australian Government to lead by example on emissions reduction and contribute to the decarbonisation of Australia’s economy.
TEQSA is committed to the achievement of the Government’s APS Net Zero 2030 target. TEQSA is following the APS Net Zero 2030 target in full, as per the Net Zero in Government Operations Strategy.
This Emissions Reduction Plan describes the priorities and actions TEQSA is taking to reduce our operational emissions and contribute to the APS Net Zero 2030 target.
Australia’s anti-cheating laws make it an offence to provide or advertise academic cheating services in higher education.
TEQSA is working to disrupt access to these sites to protect students and the integrity of higher education.
An alphabetical list of blocked illegal cheating websites is available below:
TEQSA continues to disrupt predatory academic cheating services, by blocking their websites in Australia.
TEQSA has blocked another 61 commercial academic cheating websites, disrupting the operations of these illegal services which target students.
This recent action brings the total number of websites blocked, under protocols with major internet service providers (ISPs), to 616. A list of the blocked illegal cheating websites is available at teqsa.gov.au.
Academic cheating services allow students to pay someone to complete assessments for them. This undermines the student’s learning and the trust in the qualification they receive. Further, using these services leaves the student vulnerable to blackmail and identity theft.
Blocking illegal academic cheating service websites is part of TEQSA’s multi-pronged approach to protecting the integrity of higher education awards.
TEQSA has numerous resources available to support higher education students, academics and professional staff. These resources include:
TEQSA warmly congratulates our Commissioner, Professor Elizabeth More, AM, FAICD, on being named a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
AICD Fellowship recognises the professional standing and the esteem in which a person is held by their peers, earned through a sustained commitment to exemplary governance, leadership and service. As one of the highest distinctions conferred by the institute, this milestone acknowledges the depth of Professor More’s contribution to date, and her continued influence in advancing high standards of governance.
“I am indeed most honoured by the award and recognition,” she said.
Professor More’s experience spans governance roles in higher education, government, media, business management and the performing arts. In her academic career, she has held key leadership roles including that of Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Macquarie and Canberra universities, Dean of the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), and Foundation Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business at the Australian Catholic University.
Alongside her duties as a TEQSA Commissioner since 2025, Professor More recently stepped down after a decade as Chair of Flourish Australia, one of the largest service providers supporting people with complex mental health issues, and as a member of the non-profit AICD Chairs Forum. She has been an influential voice across more than 20 boards through a distinguished career of service.
For several decades, the former classical ballet dancer has also contributed significantly to the advancement of organisation studies particularly in the areas of organisational change, communication, culture, communications technology and policy, sustainable leadership, knowledge management, and management in the performing arts.
In 2005, Professor More was acknowledged in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List and appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to education, particularly in the fields of communication, management and organisational change.
She hopes to continue sharing her experience, supporting and mentoring others, and contributing to the important conversations that define contemporary governance.
The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (TEQSA Act) established TEQSA as an agency.
The objects of the TEQSA Act are to:
The following legislative instruments have been made under the TEQSA Act:
As the national higher education regulator, where possible TEQSA welcomes the opportunity to consider requests to speak at sector, government and other regulatory or quality assurance events.
Please log your invitation via the Request a speaker form on our website.
TEQSA will manage your request and provide confirmation as soon as possible.