Is it time to get rid of group assignments at university? Federal Opposition education spokesperson Julian Leeser thinks so. On Thursday, he called for universities to drop group assessments entirely, arguing they are fundamentally “unfair” and “cheapen” degrees.
In a speech to the Universities Australia conference in Canberra, Leeser said:
Students feel, instinctively, that in many cases it is deeply unfair to assess them individually based on others’ work.