'Writing a dissertation on behalf of Western students' has become a major business in Kenya
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Many people have had the experience of thinking, 'I wish someone could do it for me ...' in front of an essay homework or a paper whose submission deadline is imminent. There is an occupation in the Republic of Kenya , East Africa, called 'Academic writer', which can do such homework.
Cheating, Inc .: How Writing Papers for American College Students Has Become a Lucrative Profession Overseas-The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/us/college-cheating-papers.html
Kenya is a hotbed in the $ 1 billion global contract cheating industry
https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-01-24/doing-western-students-homework-big-business-kenya
Mary Mbugua, a 25-year-old college student living in the town of Nieri in the center of Kenya, met a job called `` academic writer '' when she was looking for a job to cover her tuition. . At first, Mbugua was employed as an insurance sales clerk, but was unable to sell insurance as he wanted. My next job was at the hotel reception and my job was going well, but my salary was too low to pay for tuition.
My friend recommended Mbugua to work as an 'Academic Writer' who wrote papers for university students in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Mbugua trained for a month before she started working as an academic writer. From essays asking the question of euthanasia to papers on colonization of the universe, he undertook a variety of jobs and earned as much as $ 320 a month at most. This amount was higher than what Mr. Mbugua had ever obtained.
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The average annual income in Kenya is about $ 1,700 (about ¥ 186,000), while a good 'Academic Writer' earns $ 2,000 per month (about ¥ 220,000). For this reason, students like Mbugua sometimes do side jobs, and there are also writers who specialize.
Mbugua, who lost her mother in her second year of elementary school, has been working hard since then to succeed in school to help her brother and sister. However, even with government scholarships and relatives' support, they couldn't cover the family's household and college tuition, and could only continue to study by getting involved in fraudulent work.
'Academic writer' in Kenya has been a job for more than 10 years, but demand has increased sharply after business has been refined by the spread of the Internet. As a form of business, papers are sold out like eBay auction site, and writer and customer are matched like ride sharing service Uber .
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'This is a big issue. If you don't take action, all accredited universities will simply be diplomas,' said Tricia Bertram Gallant, director of the Research Fairness Department at the University of California at San Diego. , Is raising a sense of crisis. In the United States, dissertation substitution is illegally controlled in 17 states, but it is rarely caught, and if caught, the punishment is light.
Misconduct related to academic papers, plagiarizing past papers plagiarism However, such actions can be easily spotted with a ' plagiarism checker '. However, the papers and essays created by Academic Writers are completely original, making it very difficult to spot them.
Thomas Lancaster of Imperial College London, a research justice expert and developer of plagiarism detection technology, says, 'Kenya has incredibly talented people. I always write high-level papers whenever I need to. ' According to Lancaster, Kenyans are always at the top of the list of popular academic writers.
Mubgua told the New York Times: 'This is a form of misconduct. But there was no other choice. We had to earn money to make a living. I can't do it. '
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