Use of AI now makes up almost a quarter of academic misconduct cases

Traditional plagiarism has dropped from 86% of cases to 59% in the most recent full academic year

Line chart showing proportion of cases by year, from 2020/21 to 23/24, with AI rising from zero to 24%
Three categories omitted as these account for fewer than five offences in each year: Excessive Proofreading, Fraud/falsification and Other serious offence
Chart: Birmingham Eastside Source: University of Wolverhampton FOI response Get the data Embed Download image Created with Datawrapper