Cheating

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

A cheating scandal has rocked the chess world, but it's just the latest in a long list of sports cheats. Audio

A new Australian study has found around one in ten university students have cheated, and the vast majority were never caught. Academics at the University of Western Australia surveyed students about… Audio

A just-retired science professor from Auckland University says student cheating is widespread and growing as a result of exams moving online due to Covid. Peter Wills retired last week after being… Audio

Who Wants to be a Millionaire? fans will remember the case of 'coughing Major' Charles Ingram in 2001. James Graham is the writer of a new miniseries about the saga, Quiz, which is about to premiere… Video, Audio

Australian test cricket rookie Cameron Bancroft is getting easier treatment from the media than his captain and vice-captain. Audio

Sports journalist Zoë George and a roster of athletic co-hosts shine the spotlight on women in sports – this month Silver Ferns captain Katrina Grant look towards the Commonwealth Games, Karen Nimmo… Audio

Amateur marathon sleuth Derek Murphy is using publicly available data and social media to bust the running cheats. Audio, Gallery

On Wednesday the Tertiary Education Union released a survey of more than a 1000 tertiary staff, 63 percent of whom felt they had come under more heat in the past decade to pass a higher percentage of… Audio

The tertiary education union which represents academics & university lecturers says its members are increasingly feeling pressure to pass incompetent students. A survey of just over 1000 of its… Audio

Counting down to the Rio Olympic Games, Wallace talks to David Howman, the New Zealander who recently stepped down from his role as Director General of WADA - the World Anti-Doping Agency. He says he… Audio