Students have been caught offering hundreds of dollars online for people to do their homework for them.
Cheating pupils are offering up to $1,500 for their assignments to be completed for them, including work that goes towards their HSC grades.
And remarkably a teacher has allegedly been caught ‘bidding’ to take on pupils’ work for cash, the Saturday Telegraph reported.
Students have been caught offering hundreds of dollars online for people to do their homework for them
High school pupils and university students have been caught using the Airtasker website, which lets users offer cash to people looking to do their odd jobs.
One female university student reportedly offered up to $1,500 for help completing her journalism diploma.
According to the Saturday Telegraph’s report, a teacher is facing a Department of Education investigation for making several ‘bids’ to do students’ work for them.
‘I am a teacher myself and have completed many of these,’ she reportedly wrote on the site in a reply to a student looking for help with their media course.
In another offer she said she ‘can get this done for you asap’ and said her ‘knowledge in this area is enormous’.
She later told the Telegraph that the assignments were for her own ‘research’, before saying she had not admitted the account was hers.
High school pupils and university students have been caught using the Airtasker website, which lets users offer cash to people looking to do their odd jobs
Some of the offers are more paltry, with students offering as little as $15 for help.
One boy, called Joseph, said he would give $42 to anyone who could write a 1000-word speech on multiculturalism.
A NSW Education Standards Authority spokesman said cheating was ‘unacceptable’. The Department of Education is investigating.
Airtasker CEO Tim Fung said the website tried to root out people attempting to cheat, but admitted it was ‘difficult to distinguish between tutoring/proofreading and cheating’.