A Senate inquiry into university governance has heard claims that the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) is failing to monitor the standard of university degrees.
The assertion has been made by a group of more than 200 ‘old-school’ academics known as Public Universities Australia, with the group claiming that universities are “soft marking” and passing most students regardless of the standard they have achieved and that this is leading to a “dumbing down” of the nation.
Claiming that there is widespread plagiarism and use of AI among students, the group called for oral or supervised written exams to “determine what a student does in fact know and can do”.
