Companies flogging plagiarised essays are targeting Chinese-speaking students at UK universities, with more than 61,000 emails received in the past year ...

The fraudulent essay industry must be outlawed, leading academics and lords have urged as figures obtained by The Telegraph reveal that more than 20,000 students are buying professionally-written ...

More than 40 university bosses have written to the education secretary calling for so-called essay mill companies to be banned. Some students pay for bespoke, original assignments - which cannot ...

There are more than 1,000 essay mills in operation, according to the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, the watchdog for standards in UK universities.

Dozens of students on the same university course have been caught up in a cheating scandal by using 'essay mills', where other people are paid to produce work on their behalf. The widespread scam ...

UK Universities have scrambled to confront cheating using sources such as ChatGPT, which allows students to write entire essays in minutes with the correct prompting.

People applying to university will no longer have to write an essay for their personal statement, Ucas has confirmed. Instead, those applying to start in 2026 will answer three guided questions.

Former universities minister Chris Skidmore in February introduced a bill to implement a ban, calling essay mills a “rot that infects the very discipline of learning”.

A Nottinghamshire company which sells academic essays to students has denied it is doing anything wrong. Degree Essays UK, based in Ravenshead, sells the papers to school and university students at ...

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More than 40 university bosses call for companies that write essays for students to be outlawed.