Here is a story that one will probably not find at the American Renaissance site (“Asians are so much smarter than us”) ideology. University cheating by the sacred international students is at epidemic levels, and has been for some time. So, the government, scared that there could be an erosion of the ultra-sacred, immaculate international student money, is taking action against those marketing student essays and assignments, for it has been estimated that over half on international students cheat by various forms of plagiarism:
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/05/half-international-students-accused-plagiarism/
“LINTON BESSER: At Sydney University, international students now make up a quarter of all enrolments. At other universities like RMIT in Melbourne, they’re almost 50 per cent of the cohort. With thousands of students often struggling with English, the pressure to pass is helping to fuel a black market… ZENA O’CONNOR: I’m, I’m staggered by the increase in plagiarism. Ah, to start with: in my experience, it was a very small proportion – you know, maybe two, three, four per cent. I would peg it now at being much, much higher: well over 50 per cent. LINTON BESSER: The academics who have spoken out tonight are not alone in their concerns. In our research for this program, we spoke with scores of academics around Australia. The vast majority had witnessed or personally experienced the pressure to ignore plagiarism and to pass weak students. Multiple other reports have similarly documented widespread cheating by international students across Australia’s universities. For example, in 2014, Chinese students were embroiled in a large-scale ghost-writing scandal, facilitated by universities welcoming international students who whistleblowing academics labelled “functionally illiterate”. In 2015, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) demanded universities curb cheating by international students after 70 students from the universities of Newcastle and Sydney, and several other major universities, were caught up in a cheating racket. An ABC investigation last year reported that “English language standards are often too low or can be sidestepped via loopholes, and that students are often put in stressful classroom situations that can lead to cheating”. In January, international student associations called for greater regulation of overseas migration agents amid widespread cheating on English tests to gain access to Australian universities. And following last week’s Four Corners expose, domestic students at Murdoch University claimed that “some international students were trying to circumvent the language gap by plagiarising their assignments or contracting outside sources for help”.”