Essay frauds are only cheating themselves

University can be a stressful experience for students. As well as providing opportunities to gain new experiences and make new friends, which can be both exciting and nerve-racking, it often, quite rightly, comes with substantial academic challenges.

As ever, there is someone on hand who thinks they can find a way to make money out of the predicaments of others.

We reveal today that academics are still being recruited to complete assignments for students, despite pleas by university bosses to crack down on such cheats-for-hire.

Having introduced anti-plagiarism software in an attempt to stop copy and paste essays sourced on the internet, institutes are now facing an entirely different problem that is much more difficult to crack down on.

By producing bespoke, original work, companies are getting round such safeguards.

Hundreds of pounds are being spent on these “services” and the very fabric of universities are being undermined.

What use is a first class degree from any of our prestigious places of study if it has been bought, not earned?

Companies, gaining attention through adverts on platforms ranging from social media to public transport, are making serious money for themselves and for those people writing the essays.

In doing so they leave students poorer, both financially and intellectually.