Some institutions are overhauling assessment and trying to move away from the emphasis on surveillance
(24 Jul 2026) The UK’s Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education reports that while complaints remain low, AI-related misconduct cases are rising within internal university procedures.
Chief of staff Adam Waddingham says: “Detection tools may be part of the evidence considered, but they should not normally be treated as determinative on their own.”
Urszula Lis, an executive committee member of the European Students’ Union, worries that systems operate in a “closed” way, in which students cannot see how an AI tool reached its conclusion. “The bigger question is whether higher education should rely on detection-based approaches at all,” she says. “We don’t want academic integrity to become a surveillance exercise where the objective is simply to catch students doing something wrong.”
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