Cheating Services Help Chinese Get Into US Colleges
It also helps get them through college.
Reuters reports.
How an industry helps Chinese students cheat their way into and through U.S. colleges
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.
“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.”
How an industry helps Chinese students cheat their way into and through U.S. colleges (Reuters)
Comments
One can cheat to get into college and cheat to graduate. At some point the failure to do the work gets exposed. Those students probably won’t be able to pay someone to do a job for them.