Attention has shifted to Kenyan freelance writers after a damning report indicated lazy students abroad get their assignments illegally done by Kenyan writers.
In the report whose recommendation seeks to ban advertising of student assignments, a professor adversely mentions Kenyan writers who are willing and ready to take up the assignments at low prices.
The research comes hot on the heels of another one which ranked Kenya among the countries with the highest crime rate in the world. The crimes range from money laundering, economic crimes and drug trafficking.
In the British News Agency report, Kenya is linked to thousands of cheating students around the globe.
A couple of hundreds of thousand students were found to be beneficiaries of the Kenya writing syndicate.
Cost per Course
According to the British media, doctorate candidates pay between Ksh264,000 to Ksh792,000 for dissertations.
A senior fellow at Imperial College London –
Hotbed of cheating
“Kenya is the hotbed where all the writing happens. There is high unemployment and a job working from home is coveted. They have good English and low overheads,” he disclosed.
Mr Lancaster went on to reveal that Kenyans numbering in thousands had set up informal workspaces to facilitate a global exam cheating syndicate.
“There are thousands of people in Kenya whose job is to write essays for cheating students. There are several writers in every apartment block,” he claimed.
Job offers are normally posted by students in Europe or the US who are too lazy to do them, with payment based per page.
In Kenya, a local publication’s investigation carried out on Monday affirmed that countless young people are rooted in the practice full-time.
“For Ksh30,000 to Ksh50,000, depending on the course, one can get a research project done in two weeks to a month,” stated an excerpt from the publication.
Ajira Digital
In September 20, 208, the Kenyan govt launched a special programme dubbed the Ajira digital programme, an initiative seeking to empower over a million young people to secure digital jobs easily.
A motion is set to be tabled in the UK parliament to ban all forms of advertising for any assistance in academic work.
Total ban
Over 40 Vice Chancellors in the UK also called on their Education Secretary – Damian Hinds, to ban cheating websites, as is the case are in New Zealand and some parts of the United States.
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