1. What is academic misconduct?

Academic cheating services, or contract cheating companies, (sometimes called professional ghostwriters), offer students what may seem like a quick solution to academic challenges.

You have the right to appeal academic misconduct decisions by presenting valid reasons or new evidence to an appeals committee for a fair review.

You can…

Our resource, Australian higher education cyber security agencies and organisations, provides an overview of Australia’s cyber security bodies.

To report cyber incidents, please contact the responsible body below. Other reporting obligations may apply in your jurisdiction.

As Australia’s higher education regulator, TEQSA protects the quality and integrity of the Australian higher education sector and expects providers to manage sensitive information, such as intellectual property, research data and personal details, responsibly.

TEQSA is concerned that illegal academic cheating services are posing a cyber security risk to higher education providers, through systematic targeting of learning management systems (LMS), and resulting in threats to students, academic and professional staff, research and information security.