Earlier this year, an advertisement appeared on my Facebook feed promoting “professionals” who provide a shameful personal service — one that a professor of mine once called “deeply intimate.” They ...

Kevin says he’s always been known as a good writer — a reputation that only blossomed in his Canadian high school. “Word spread pretty quick around my 700-person school that I’m the best writer in the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Alan Jacobs proposes a novel theory for the success of essay mills in cranking out ...

Internet giants have been urged to block advertisements for contract cheating websites by a global alliance of higher education regulators. Times Higher Education The Global Academic Integrity Network ...

Selling essays, assignments and even PhD theses is a legal and thriving business in the UK, but could soon be criminalised following a bill, supported by Turnitin and other major higher education ...

Essay mill companies are still “thriving” in the UK despite legislation designed to stamp them out, The PIE News has learned. The PIE found examples on Twitter of companies that were offering essay ...

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The heads of more than 40 UK universities have written to the Department for Education to demand a ban on so-called essay mills. Education Secretary Damian Hinds is being urged to make third-party ...