#Academia #Thesis

*Shadow scholars: inside #Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry*

WOW:

"...a 2018 paper estimated that 👉at least 1 in 7 graduates worldwide have used such services👈.
The UK, Irish + Australian governments, plus some US and Indian states, have taken steps to outlaw advertising by commercial ‘essay mills’.
But despite such moves, demand continues to grow. Kingori’s film explores the issue by going to the writers themselves..."

nature.com/articles/d41586-025…

Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry

Sociologist Patricia Kingori is helping to expose contract cheating by scholars in high-income countries.

^{McKie, Anna}