“Test-taking services. Paper-writing. Take Online Courses for you,” says the social-messaging profile of one Chinese coaching outfit used by Iowa students, UI International Student Services. A pitch emailed by another business ended with this reassuring claim: “Your friends are all using us.”
Reuters: IOWA CITY, Iowa – The advertisements were tailored for Chinese college students far from home, struggling with the English language and an unfamiliar culture.
Coaching services peppered the students with emails and chat messages in Chinese, offering to help foreign students at U.S. colleges do much of the work necessary for a university degree. The companies would author essays for clients. Handle their homework. Even take their exams. All for about a $1,000 a course.
For dozens of Chinese nationals at the University of Iowa, the offers proved irresistible. more
You know, I’ll bet this would work with moslems. In fact, I’m willing to bet it’s already been done with one moslem in particular.
I met a Chinese dude who passed the UM Physics PhD Qualifying Exam – AND DIDN’T READ, WRITE, OR SPEAK ENGLISH!
No shit.
He said that because of the math, he could figure out the question.
izlamo delenda est …
This is nothing new, and it isn’t only the Chinese. Before the ‘net, it was an expensive specialty because it was mostly one supplier to one cheating student. But now with this stuff online, the economies of scale has lowered the price so it is widespread, and the cheaters come from all over. This is just another reason that the real value of a college/university certification has dropped so badly.
The education system has become a huge business. It is therefore no surprise that it has become hugely greedy and corrupt!