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By Amiabelle Kong Individuals caught contract cheating in tertiary institutions can now face up to 2 years of imprisonment and a $100,000 fine under a new law that has been passed.  Aiming specifically at people who provide and advertise cheating services, the law applies to anyone from overseas or in Australia.  …

By Alex Neale The SRC will be proposing a slew of changes to the structures of Special Consideration at UNSW at the next Academic Board meeting. The primary areas of concern to be raised surround the disparity of approval rates of Special Consideration Requests among students of differing circumstances.   …

In a media release, NUS Education Officer Luc Velez wrote, “this is NOT a summit of universities, it’s a meeting of university bosses and their corporate allies. Students and staff are the real universities,” it read.  Pictures of the protest showed students holding signs saying “cancel student debt” and “cut …

By Harrisen Leckenby In a significant personnel reconfiguration, Professor Merlin Crossley, who is the current Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and Student Life, will move into the Academic quality role. Crossley’s role will now focus purely on academic matters such as the UNSW Library, UNSW Press and the Academic Quality Unit.   In …

By Harrisen Leckenby The UNSW Return and Earn collection facility, a place where students and members of the public can go to return their bottles and cans for 10cents each, closed yesterday due to ongoing security incidents involving the site.  A University spokesperson confirmed that there had been “several” incidents …

By Caitlin Bailey The Strategy comes shortly after the release of the 2021 National Student Safety Survey, which found that one in six students have been sexually harassed, and one in twenty have been sexually assaulted since starting university.   Professor Jan Breckenridge, Co-Convenor of the UNSW Gendered Violence Research …