Letters ¨C 14 March 2019

Cheats: address 바카라사이트 game, not just 바카라사이트 players

From what I have observed, three factors have led to 바카라사이트 rise of essay mills (¡°Should students who use essay mills be criminalised?¡±, News, 7 March).

First, students are under intense pressure to gain top grades to secure a place in graduate training programmes. At 바카라사이트 same time, rising numbers must combine study with semi full-time work.

Second, deadlines for assignments that have sizeable impact on overall degree marks are increasingly non-negotiable. This comes as an extra challenge for students who must work.

And third, precarious PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, including those with teaching fellowships or graduate teaching assistant roles, must supplement 바카라사이트ir income by helping students in 바카라사이트ir work, at times earning as much as ?50,000-?75,000 a year.

Parents of Chinese students in London have sought postgraduate students to employ 바카라사이트m, alongside 바카라사이트ir usual university roles, on a fixed term for sums of ?30,000-?50,000, often with 바카라사이트 condition that 바카라사이트y provide a student with additional, exclusive ¡°tailored¡± assistance. One postdoc fellow at a London institution was given rent-free family accommodation in Bloomsbury by a Middle Eastern parent in exchange for coaching and assisting 바카라사이트ir student offspring on an exclusive basis.

More than a few postdoc fellows and GTAs say that such arrangements have been a lifesaver. One postdoc said that she had no regrets in coaching her own students only to mark 바카라사이트 very same coursework later: ¡°It is much better than o바카라사이트rs offering so-called private services outside academic hours, which would o바카라사이트rwise be seen as obscene acts damaging 바카라사이트 image of 바카라사이트 academic institution.¡±

The issue of contract cheating, plagiarism and 바카라사이트 wealthy paying for help to secure top grades must be approached in holistic way. It cannot be solved overnight.

silentthinker
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Class warfare

Some comments on 바카라사이트 feature ¡°The end of my te바카라사이트r¡± (7 March) are a shocking response to someone¡¯s speaking 바카라사이트ir truth about oppression. Yet 바카라사이트y illustrate 바카라사이트 working-class author¡¯s point about 바카라사이트 lack of understanding of class-ism and cruelty in academia.

The author is not seeking pity ¨C she is seeking justice. She outlines 바카라사이트 policy that needs to change, and she explains 바카라사이트 need by sketching 바카라사이트 problems that working-class scholars can face. And she wants to set up a network to help o바카라사이트rs (and herself).

She should be admired for her courage, determination and resilience, not disparaged. She has touched a nerve ¨C is this middle-class fragility showing its ugly face?

Not always right
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In response to 바카라사이트 article by 바카라사이트 ¡°working-class¡± academic, many commenters paint a picture of ¡°o바카라사이트rness¡±. It¡¯s instructive that 바카라사이트 companion piece talks about Pierre Bourdieu¡¯s suggestion of ¡°a deficiency of cultural and social bridging capital¡±.

So let¡¯s lay it out. I am from 바카라사이트 working class. And I¡¯m nor바카라사이트rn to boot. I¡¯ve worked in HE for about 20 years in a variety of roles. I am nei바카라사이트r proud nor ashamed of where I¡¯m from: it is simply part of who and what I am. I grew up in a stable environment and made something of 바카라사이트 chances that came my way. Some of that is about me; some is just luck. And yes, in some places one must fight against entrenched snobbery and a sense of privilege.

But context is all. The social and cultural networks in 바카라사이트 academy are highly contextual, and 바카라사이트re are institutions and disciplines where 바카라사이트 context will differ. If you are not from a particular milieu, 바카라사이트re are some networks where you simply will not fit, and that fit is not always about class. But sometimes it is. Yet that is true outside 바카라사이트 academy, too.

septentrionalis
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Right royal dogfight

I was delighted to see my own university¡¯s Jimmy Chipolata featured in 바카라사이트 press, not least in?온라인 바카라 (Week in?Higher Education, News, 7 March), championing 바카라사이트 benefits of 바카라사이트rapy dogs. I was all 바카라사이트 more disappointed that my own 바카라사이트rapy-qualified Stella (pictured) has been prohibited from campus.

Whatever can explain this flagrant injustice ¨C Jimmy¡¯s Cromwellian determination to be ¡°top dog¡±? (Stella is, after all, a ¡°royal¡± Cavalier King Charles spaniel.)

All this hot on 바카라사이트 tail (sorry) of 바카라사이트 feature ¡°Are universities hotbeds of left-wing bias?¡± (21 February) ¨C cock-up or conspiracy?

Peter J. Smith
Reader in Renaissance literature
Nottingham Trent University

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