UK students outsource ‘Contract Cheating
This is the spirit of lateral thinking that helped Britain build its empire, birthplace and home to some of the best engineers in the world and the use of newspaper to keep your fish and chips warm as you walk through the freezing streets of most seaports around our great island.
British students are using online freelance expertise in IT to complete their course assignments by posting request for Quotations (RFQ’s) of their coursework on outsourcing websites and buying the completed coursework.
Called “contract cheating” in academic circles, lecturers in computing departments in universities are struggling to recognize outsourced assignments since such coursework is of high quality and difficult to detect through normal plagiarism detection software.
The trend is particularly seen in IT courses, in which students need to write programs and students can pay amounts ranging from 5 to 50 pounds for the completed coursework that they then pass off as their own work and gain their degrees.
posted by Glen Stidolph in Outsourcing, Humour | 0 Comments
