Victoria University denies corruption as staff call for IBAC to investigate ALLEGATIONS that Victoria University management covered up a marking scandal should be investigated by the state's corruption watchdog, whistleblowers say. Sources say the university failed to release a report on why up to 10 students from Australia and overseas had grades altered by law school employees to help them pass a law subject in 2012. But university management said the school was transparent and had reviewed the issue in February, finding the assessments were remarked within university guidelines. Two staff members called for external review, saying the school had a culture of pressuring staff to pass students. "The university has a culture of covering up academic fraud," one source told the Herald Sun. They know something is wrong and they refuse to investigate. The entire law school is now crying out for the IBAC and the Ombudsman to investigate what has really happened behind the closed doors. How many more student results have been altered in secret? Students involved are believed to be in full-fee positions which cost $90,000 for a Bachelor of Law degree. Up to 50 members of staff run the school which is attended by 1000 students. Law school dean, Professor Andrew Clarke, defended the internal review and said he was confident the school had been transparent and rejected the idea staff had participated in "soft-marking." The matters in second semester 2012 were dealt with on facts and circumstances, they were dealt with thoroughly and we did an internal investigation. The university is quite satisfied we have complied with the policy," Prof. Clarke said. We are absolutely policy driven, we have certainly never hidden anything. These issues are not uncommon in law school. You have the odd person who has a student issue that arises and you deal with it on its merits. This law school is open and transparent has a forum for discussion but there may be times where we have to agree to disagree. No official complaint of misconduct or corruption has been lodged with the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission. The IBAC is responsible for investigating serious corrupt conduct across the state's public service, covering 250,000 workers.