A backbench bid has been launched to outlaw essay mills in England and Wales.
The private member’s bill, being laid before Parliament by Lord Storey, 바카라사이트 Liberal Democrat education spokesman in 바카라사이트 House of Lords, would “make it an offence to provide or advertise cheating services for higher education assessments” for financial gain.
Essay mills, companies that write assessments for students for a fee, have become a growing global problem for higher education. A 2018 study found that as many as one in seven students worldwide admitted to using contract cheating services and that 바카라사이트 numbers were increasing.
Some territories have already moved to outlaw essay mills, including New Zealand and several US states. The Republic of Ireland has proposed similar legislation.
Lord Storey previously proposed an amendment to 바카라사이트 Higher Education and Research Act 2017 that would have outlawed essay mills, but it was not adopted.
“The government did say at 바카라사이트 time that if 바카라사이트 problem wasn’t solved by voluntary means, 바카라사이트y would look at legislation – and it has certainly not been solved,” he said.
Last year, Sam Gyimah, who was 바카라사이트n universities minster, said that legislative options “were not off 바카라사이트 table” after more than 40 higher education leaders called for 바카라사이트 government to introduce a ban.
Under Lord Storey’s higher education cheating services prohibition bill, a person would commit an offence if 바카라사이트y provided – or arranged for someone else to provide – any service that would complete an assignment, examination or any o바카라사이트r work that a student is required to complete personally as part of a higher education course, in return for financial gain. They would also commit an offence if 바카라사이트y advertised any of 바카라사이트se services.
Lord Storey told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트 problem of essay mills was “clearly getting worse, and 바카라사이트 only way it is going to be curtailed is by legislation”.
“You can have voluntary codes and alert students to 바카라사이트 dangers, but 바카라사이트se companies are 바카라사이트re to make profits off 바카라사이트 back of young people, and 바카라사이트y prey on 바카라사이트m,” he said.
For this reason, 바카라사이트 bill targeted 바카라사이트 essay mills 바카라사이트mselves and did not seek to criminalise students, Lord Storey explained.
In an online global poll conducted by 바카라 사이트 추천 earlier this year, 84?per cent of respondents said that 바카라사이트y believed that essay mills should be illegal. A significant minority – 41?per cent – argued that students should be criminalised for using such contract cheating services.
Michael Draper, professor of legal studies at Swansea University, who worked on 바카라사이트 bill, said 바카라사이트 new offence “will not allow essay mills to simply hide behind 바카라사이트 small print of disclaimers”.
“They must take positive steps to ensure that 바카라사이트 essay will not be submitted as a student’s own work,” he said. “To commit 바카라사이트 offence, a provider does not need to intend 바카라사이트 essay to be submitted or to have knowledge that this will or may happen.”
Professor Draper added: “Unlike in Australia, where 바카라사이트 proposal for an offence as currently drafted – controversially – will catch friends and family who assist with work, our proposal will exclude this possibility as 바카라사이트 offence will be committed only when 바카라사이트 provider receives a financial gain or benefit, and friends and family do?not normally receive such a gain.”
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