{"id":189,"date":"2013-10-11T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2013-10-11T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T09:14:10","slug":"no-systematic-solution-to-essay-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/no-systematic-solution-to-essay-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"No Systematic Solution To Essay Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m quoted in the cover story of this week&#8217;s Times Higher Education (although much of the story looks based around the long discussion we had on the telephone):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/tablet\/8869243B\/2007944.shared\">http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/tablet\/8869243B\/2007944.shared<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting feature, running to six pages in the printed version of THE (and having attracted comments on the online version).<\/p>\n<p>An interesting statement is the estimate that over 15,000 customer essays are written by essay writing firms within the UK every year. That doesn&#8217;t account for the students who commit other forms of contract cheating or order from abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The implication in the article is that there is no easy solution in sight, but I hope that we can do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m quoted in the cover story of this week&#8217;s Times Higher Education (although much of the story looks based around the long discussion we had on the telephone): http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/tablet\/8869243B\/2007944.shared It&#8217;s an interesting feature, running to six pages in the printed version of THE (and having attracted comments on the online version). An interesting statement is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/no-systematic-solution-to-essay-mills\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Systematic Solution To Essay Mills<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[18,118,119,120],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contract-cheating","tag-contract-cheating-2","tag-custom-writing","tag-essay-mills","tag-times-higher"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Thomas Lancaster","author_link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/author\/thomas-lancaster\/"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"I&#8217;m quoted in the cover story of this week&#8217;s Times Higher Education (although much of the story looks based around the long discussion we had on the telephone): http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/tablet\/8869243B\/2007944.shared It&#8217;s an interesting feature, running to six pages in the printed version of THE (and having attracted comments on the online version). An interesting statement is&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}