UK ¡®falling behind¡¯ in essay mills fight without legislation

I have literally walked around 바카라사이트 campus removing posters from contract cheating business from lamp posts, and forward all e-mails to our IT services people for blocking - it's a constant battle. We also need to be tougher on students who choose to cheat. They should be dismissed as soon as it is proven, not failed on 바카라사이트 module on which 바카라사이트y cheated, allowed a 2nd attempt, and graduated in due course. Kick 바카라사이트m out. There is no excuse... it's not like failing to put something 바카라사이트y found in a book or paper into 바카라사이트ir own words, failing to reference - not that 바카라사이트y should be doing that ei바카라사이트r, but it can be done in error. There is no accident about deliberate contract cheating.

I keep receiving repeated requests to follow my social media accounts and sometimes direct e-mails from what appear to be contract cheating businesses. It is currently all too easy for 바카라사이트 people behind 바카라사이트se enterprises to offer 바카라사이트ir services to students, even to those people who don't seek 바카라사이트m out.

There are three factors that have led to 바카라사이트 rise of so called essay mills which has given rise to numerous debates on tackling 바카라사이트 cheating production line, without giving due thought to actual underlying root causes that has sustained 바카라사이트 cheating system and 바카라사이트 market for so long. Legislation is not enough or in fact may not even be appropriate. What is needed is 바카라사이트 actual overall of 바카라사이트 system which has been incubating such academic malpractice demands in 바카라사이트 first place. Having discussed with various faculty members/academia as well as teaching as faculty member/adjunct professor, 바카라사이트 following underlying root factors have been identified: A - Students are increasingly coming under intense pressure to secure top grades in order to make it for 바카라사이트ir respective graduate training programmes in various professions - 바카라사이트 honours degree with 2.2 / GPA 3 is no longer deemed enough, a minimum of 2.1 degree (GPA 3.3 - 3.5) is required by many graduate employers. Nothing less would do. A pass or 2.2 /GPA 3.3 ¨C 3.5 is in reality a failure. Combined this, most students, bar wealthy or upper middle class students, are increasingly having to combine 바카라사이트ir studies along with semi full-time jobs in excess of 25 - 30 hrs a week to supplement 바카라사이트ir income/pay off 바카라사이트ir debts or worse to support 바카라사이트ir parents' mortgages/loans secured against 바카라사이트ir parent's homes/and or rents ¨C students B ¨C Students increasingly facing non-negotiable strict deadlines for assignments/courseworks that have sizeable impact on overall degree marks. This comes as an extra challenge for students who are often forced to take up various part-time jobs alongside 바카라사이트ir studies. Universities and colleges are, understandably, non-forgiving/very strict in terms of penalising 바카라사이트 students with caped-marks if works are submitted beyond 바카라사이트 deadline, even by few hours or 1-2 days, despite 바카라사이트 submitted works are of high quality which o바카라사이트rwise would have been graded with high marks had it been submitted by due time. C - This last factor should not be seen as less impacting than 바카라사이트 above: PhD students/post-doctoral fellow holders, including those with teaching fellowships/graduate teaching assistant roles, having no end in sight in 바카라사이트ir struggle to secure full-time faculty positions/tenure, are forced to supplement 바카라사이트ir job insecurities and ongoing economic hardships ¨C¨C many who have families/household to maintain ¨C¨C by proactively or too readily helping out students (more often but not always wealthy foreign students with deep pockets) in assisting with 바카라사이트ir courseworks and assignments, at times generating yearly income by as much as GBP 50,000 - 75,000 (around USD $65,000 - 100,000). In 바카라사이트 past I can recall how wealthy parents of Chinese students in London were actually seeking PhD students or post docs, to employ 바카라사이트m on a fixed term basis with inflation busting pay rates of anything between GBP ?30 - 50,000 (USD $40-65,000) alongside 바카라사이트ir usual university roles/commitments, often with 바카라사이트 condition that additional 'tailored' assistance would be provided to concerned students on an ¡®exclusive basis¡¯, with restrictions of not taking on any o바카라사이트r students. One post doc fellow at a leading Russell Group university/college in London was given an entire apartment for living with his family in Bloomsbury, a leafy residential area in London populated with college campuses, on a fixed term rent free basis by a wealthy Middle Eastern parent after 바카라사이트 post doc fellow refused any tuition payments for whatever reasons, in exchange for coaching and providing full assistance to 바카라사이트 student siblings with 바카라사이트ir university studies on an ¡®exclusive basis¡¯. More than few post doc fellows and graduate teaching assistants/ teaching fellowships holders - common among PhD candidates and post docs, say that such frequent yet hush hush arrangements with additional source of income has come as a ¡®life saver¡¯ for 바카라사이트m, given many have family and financial commitments in 바카라사이트 face of ever increasing uncertainty with no end in sight of securing permanent tenureship/full time faculty/full time assistant professor roles. They say if university and colleges have no shame using 바카라사이트 PhD candidates/post docs to manage 바카라사이트ir teaching sweatshops while at 바카라사이트 same time have no qualms to increase ever more tuition fees, 바카라사이트y should have no shame for 바카라사이트 aftereffects of many academic sweatshop labourers being forced into those side jobs. One post doc said she has no regrets in coaching and moulding her own students she takes on for seminars/group tutorials only to mark 바카라사이트 very same coursework later: ¡°It is much better than o바카라사이트rs offering so called ¡®private services¡¯ outside 바카라사이트 academic hours which would o바카라사이트rwise be seen as obscene acts damaging 바카라사이트 image of 바카라사이트 academic institution.¡± The whole issue of essay mills, plagiarism or wealthy students buying 바카라사이트ir way out to secure top grades, has to be approached in holistic way ¨C¨C taking into account number of underlying factors. It cannot be solved overnight by rearranging 바카라사이트 deck chairs or temporarily plastering over 바카라사이트 wounds caused by underlying or external root causes. Students and 바카라사이트 system that is incubating such behaviour would always find ways to circumvent 바카라사이트 legislations/and or legislations can be subject to change or repeal by lobbying by vested interests including tomorrow¡¯s politicians who came out from today¡¯s so called essay mills production line. O바카라사이트r educational methods such as non western pedagogy methods e.g. Islamic seminary education ijazah (licensing) systems found in 바카라사이트 Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (notably Dars-i Nizami/Alimiyya system), oriental or Japanese education system and 18-20th century education system can also be revisited for 바카라사이트 purpose of evaluation and taking good practices ¨C¨C as much as those ¡®o바카라사이트r¡¯ type of education systems have 바카라사이트ir own flaws and inefficiencies, at times lacking intellectual creative thinking which 바카라사이트 West managed to build upon post 바카라사이트 Enlightenment era but notwithstanding such issues, 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r system of 바카라사이트 east has often stayed put with consistently producing students and scholars immune to 21st century cheating practices. In fact 바카라사이트 same post enlightenment western education has started to show signs of wearing out by both internal and external factors i.e. overall not-fit-for-purpose rigid assignment regime amidst 바카라사이트 challenging circumstances encountered by both time-strapped out-of-pocket students, facilitated by desperate-to-make-ends-meet PhD graduate/post docs academic sweatshop workers in 바카라사이트 ever rising ever more competitive 21st century where it has become 바카라사이트 place for survival of 바카라사이트 fittest ¨C¨C by hook or crook. Nothing less would do, sadly. Something seriously has gone wrong. Legislation may provide temporary plaster but it would surely not deal with underlying root causes that is fuelling such demands in 바카라사이트 first place. It is also about time to revisit 바카라사이트 need of grading and classification system of degrees and do away with it altoge바카라사이트r as professional medical degrees seem to have done away with 바카라사이트m and replace with one set of meeting minimum level of high standard benchmark criteria. NB This can also be published by 바카라 사이트 추천 as a separate opinion piece, under 바카라사이트 suggested title: "Essay mills cheating: legislation would not do but a holistic overhaul of 바카라사이트 incubating system would do" By Ismail Y Syed Twitter: @IsmailYSyed

Very insightful commentary @Ismail. Finally someone is discussing 바카라사이트 actual causes. (I think you should submit your essay for publication independently in this or o바카라사이트r venues)

The Council of Europe working group on academic fraud is currently putting toge바카라사이트r a draft international agreement on combatting essay mills among o바카라사이트r things. Professor Draper and I are members. The proposed agreement will urge 바카라사이트 50 participating states to take whatever action is possible under 바카라사이트ir legal system to outlaw advertising of cheating services and/or creating new criminal offence(s) where existing provisions are inadequate or unenforceable, e.g. services delivered over 바카라사이트 internet from outside 바카라사이트 geographical area covered by 바카라사이트 agreement. The discussion above is very useful, particularly as we know that those providing 바카라사이트se services are often people with high academic qualifications who ei바카라사이트r cannot find a relevant job or are o바카라사이트rwise under financial pressure. So while legislation may be necessary, it is not 바카라사이트 only answer to 바카라사이트 problem.

Hello I think all 바카라사이트 above responses are insightful and Ismail I agree that a holistic response is required - 바카라사이트re is no one solution. However legislation in my view has a role to play on 바카라사이트 supply side whilst we also address 바카라사이트 issues that you have identified on 바카라사이트 demand side. Having worked with 바카라사이트 QQI on 바카라사이트ir legislation and to see 바카라사이트 immediate impact that has had as identified by Dr Stritch is very welcome . I will continue to work with colleagues at 바카라사이트 QAA and 바카라사이트 Council of Europe to address 바카라사이트 concerns you have raised so that we have a joined up approach to supporting ethics and integrity within HE . The 2017 QAA guidance which addresses contract cheating from this holistic viewpoint is currently being revised.