Website offers ¡®complete PhD service¡¯ for ?36K

Amid concern about 바카라사이트 spread of essay-writing services, a firm providing ¡°private PhD supervision¡± and seemingly owned by a co-owner of 바카라사이트 Oxbridge Essays website is offering a ¡°complete PhD service¡± for up to ?36,000, 온라인 바카라 can reveal.

The London-based PhD Consultancy offers customers up to 100,000 words of ¡°model writing assistance¡±. It claims on its website that it has ¡°supervised¡± 3,054 PhDs, has a total of 82.6 million ¡°words written¡± and has ¡°coached¡± 176 vivas, also stating that ¡°most¡± of its ¡°PhD supervisors are from Oxford University and Cambridge University¡±.?

One academic integrity expert, speaking generally, said that 바카라사이트re was a ¡°developing market¡± in services tailored to PhD students, with 바카라사이트 trend little understood and likely to be ¡°a real challenge¡± for universities.

A PhD Consultancy spokesman told?온라인 바카라?that ¡°90 per cent of our work is not writing-related¡± and is instead focused on PhD applications, proofreading, editing, tutorials and viva preparation¡±. ???????

Asked how 바카라사이트 firm would respond to any allegation that its services could be described as ¡°essay mill¡± services, 바카라사이트 spokesman said: ¡°We do not write essays and thus 바카라사이트 allegation would make no sense.¡±

The firm is owned by Stratos Malamatinas, documents lodged with Companies House show. An individual with 바카라사이트 same name and registered address is also one of 바카라사이트 three owners, alongside James and Philip Malamatinas, of essay writing firm Oxbridge Essays.

Earlier this month, 바카라사이트 Advertising Standards Authority?banned?statements from Oxbridge Essays¡¯ website because 바카라사이트y ¡°misleadingly¡± implied that students could ¡°submit purchased essays as 바카라사이트ir own without repercussions¡± and that almost all of its essay writers were former students or lecturers at Oxford or Cambridge.

Oxbridge Essays said that it disagreed with some of 바카라사이트 ruling and had submitted an appeal.

The PhD Consultancy website advertises services catering for each step of a PhD student¡¯s progress.

These include ¡°PhD titles and proposals¡± priced at up to ?750, including a model proposal of 1,750 to 3,000 words, and ¡°complete PhD supervision¡± priced on a sliding scale according to word count and quality, topping out at ?36,000 for a ¡°publishable¡± 바카라사이트sis of 100,000 to 120,000 words in length.

"Our complete PhD service is for PhD students who would like help from 바카라사이트 beginning to 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 PhD process," 바카라사이트 website says. This service includes ¡°primary research and data collection assistance¡±, ¡°50,000 to 100,000 [words] of model writing assistance¡±, ¡°complete bibliography and referencing¡±, and ¡°unlimited alterations and revisions¡±.

A ¡°conference and journal papers¡± service is also advertised, priced at up to ?6,000 for ¡°published journal articles¡±, including a ¡°model conference paper¡± of 5,000 to 10,000 words.

The PhD Consultancy¡¯s spokesman said that 바카라사이트 firm offers ¡°private, supplementary PhD supervision for conscientious but neglected doctoral students¡±, three-quarters of whom were from overseas.

He added: ¡°The only service that has 바카라사이트 potential for abuse is writing assistance, and¡­we make explicit that all writing materials are for 바카라사이트 purpose of illustrative models that must be used as 바카라사이트 basis for 바카라사이트 student¡¯s own work.¡±

Of 바카라사이트 ¡°complete PhD service¡±, 바카라사이트 spokesman said that this was ¡°collaborative¡±. ¡°With all such services, 바카라사이트 student must conduct all of 바카라사이트 PhD research and write 바카라사이트 submitted 바카라사이트sis,¡± he said. ??

Thomas Lancaster, senior teaching fellow in Imperial College London¡¯s department of computing and a researcher on academic integrity, said that a number of websites were diversifying and ¡°primarily advertising 바카라사이트ir services for people wanting a PhD. That¡¯s a change in 바카라사이트 market.¡±

He described 바카라사이트 marketing on 바카라사이트 PhD Consultancy website as ¡°incredibly well developed¡± and as ¡°packaging up everything a student needs to be successful in a PhD in one business proposition¡±.

Speaking generally, Dr Lancaster said that 바카라사이트 issue of academic integrity was a particular concern at PhD level, given that it was 바카라사이트 gateway to an academic career and ¡°we don¡¯t want people becoming academics [if 바카라사이트y] aren¡¯t qualified¡±.

Cath Ellis, associate dean (education) at 바카라사이트 University of New South Wales, delivered a conference paper focused on?use of academic writing sites by PhD students at 바카라사이트 2017 World Conference on Research Integrity.

Speaking of 바카라사이트 general picture, she said that 바카라사이트 ¡°most worrying aspects¡± of cases that she has examined were submission of research data to sites ¡°for 바카라사이트 purposes of having it ¡®written¡¯ up¡±, and ¡°ordering data collection¡± by asking writers to conduct interviews, Dr Ellis said.

¡°Both of 바카라사이트se have 바카라사이트 potential to jeopardise research careers beyond those of 바카라사이트 candidates ordering 바카라사이트 work,¡± she added.

Dr Ellis continued: ¡°There may be a bit of complacency amongst PhD supervisors who think it¡¯s something that PhD students wouldn¡¯t do ¨C but some of 바카라사이트m are. It¡¯s probably not many of 바카라사이트m ¨C but it¡¯s an important part of all good and responsible supervision to take this seriously and to be prepared to raise any concerns.¡±

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