Essay mill companies are still “thriving” in the UK despite legislation designed to stamp them out, stakeholders have told The PIE News.

Contract cheating is more rampant in Australian universities than most would have ever imagined, with one in 10 university students guilty of paying someone to write assignments or to do their online exams for them in Australia. Manu Prakaash finds out more.

Selling essays, assignments and even PhD theses is a legal and thriving business in the UK, but could soon be criminalised following a Bill supported by Turnitin and other major higher education bodies to prohibit their operation

Contract cheating may have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 crisis, but some new national initiatives aim to broaden awareness while ICAI stakeholders are coming together for an International Day of Action and registrations have soared.

An integrity unit is to be created within TEQSA to protect the interests of students, tackle foreign interference and cheating, and maintain academic integrity.

Students groups have said the reputation of New Zealand's international student body has been "dragged through the mud" by allegations of widespread essay mill use.

According to The Malaysian Insight, fake degrees from both local and international HEIs can be bought for as little as £2,200.

More than 250 prominent YouTube stars were found to be actively encouraging students across the globe to purchase coursework from an 'essay mill' based in Ukraine.