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15% of students admit to buying essays. What can universities do about it?

15% of students admit to buying essays. What can universities do about it?

New research on plagiarism at university has revealed students are surprisingly unconcerned about a practice known as “contract cheating”. The term “contract cheating” was coined in 2006, and describes students paying for completed assessments. At that time, concerns over the outsourcing of assessments were in their infancy, but today, contract cheating is big business. In 2017 alone, the […] … learn more→