When I was at uni, there was no marking of assignments. The "examples papers" were basically your opportunity to understand the course before a supervision when you could discuss them. If you didn't do the examples, the supervisor didn't really care (typically a grad student that had enough of their own worries). My point is, if I'd cheated, it would have ultimately been my problem when it came to sitting the exam.
Well there is, vastly increase the barrier for entry into universities. Maybe those 500 person classrooms can now be the 25 person classrooms they were actually meant to be. :)