The university will consider tougher intake rules for Chinese students after a huge surge in fraudulent admissions was uncovered last year.
Students have been caught cheating their way into the University of Sydney using fake high school diplomas and English language tests, prompting the institution to consider stricter intake rules for Chinese nationals.
A substantial chunk of the cases was linked to a scam involving fake high school diplomas from the Canadian province of Ontario, the report said, while there was also an increase in fake English language tests detected. “Last year our admission and compliance teams identified a cluster of cases using fraudulent transcripts from a number of recently registered online private schools in the same geographical area, Ontario,” she said.“We quickly moved to only accept students from onsite/in-person Ontarian schools that had gone through our robust verification processes, to ensure the integrity of our admissions.”
Sydney University sociologist Salvatore Babones said the scam involving Canadian private institutions was likely used to bypass English language test requirements, which are generally not required for international students who have a high school diploma from an English-speaking country. Higher education expert with Australian National University, Andrew Norton, said the general experience at Australian universities was that cheating among Chinese students was quite high.“Ultimately, the real victims of this are legitimate students. If an employer gets wind of a pattern of students not being up to scratch it undermines the integrity of the degree.”linked to international students, largely from India.
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