More students are trying to surreptitiously cheat in their exams at the University of NSW compared to a year ago, amid worsening levels of student misbehaviour including staff being verbally attacked.

Reports of “less serious plagiarism” and what the institution called “poor scholarship” doubled in 2024 – an increase the university attributed to the rise of artificial intelligence and better detection, its latest report on cheating said.

Universities across the country are working out exactly how to deal with the advent of artificial intelligence, amid reports in other countries that students are using it to cheat their way through their entire degree.

Other institutions such as The University of Sydney have allowed the use of AI across the board except for certain secured assignment

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