{"id":327,"date":"2016-01-12T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T10:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2022-12-17T22:01:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T22:01:31","slug":"exploring-the-role-of-indian-workers-in-the-contract-cheating-market-for-essays-and-assignments-video-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/exploring-the-role-of-indian-workers-in-the-contract-cheating-market-for-essays-and-assignments-video-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring The Role Of Indian Workers In The Contract Cheating Market For Essays And Assignments Video Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is evidence that workers from India are included in the set of people helping students to commit contract cheating. Although this isn&#8217;t an area that we&#8217;ve drawn particular attention to in our research, we have been asked by the media to comment on the Indian connection many times in recent years, including in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/education\/india-key-source-of-contract-cheating-at-uk-varsities\/story-T7T1ZojlUgdFxobWjgjRkN.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this 2016 article from the Hindustan Times<\/a> and in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/large-numbers-indians-are-helping-british-students-cheat-low-prices-say-experts-1536373\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this 2016 article from the International Business Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian market is one of a number of economies where students can find a writer, programmer or worker willing to complete their work for them. From an economic point of view, a worker of this type can be employed for a price that is cost-effective for the student, but also provides a reasonable wage for the contractor. There are also workers available with a high level of English language ability for written work and technical skills for computing work.<\/p>\n<p>I explore some of the issues related to the international supply of workers, including those workers from India, in this video.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JpHdnjGk5Co\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In the video, I also look at an example of a request observed on an outsourcing web site of a student asking to have a statistical assignment completed for them. This falls within the group of assignments which can be completed without necessarily having a perfect knowledge of English.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 20 people who bid to complete the work for the assignment, 15% of them (3 out of 20), stated in their profile that they were from India. This was the most common country represented, although countries worldwide, with a slight dominance for Asia and Africa, were visible.<\/p>\n<p>One of the Indian bidders had completed 37 projects on the site, of which the majority looked to be Computing assignments. This does demonstrate a subset of workers from India who are using contract cheating as a source of income.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this example covers only of one assignment, quickly selected, and one worker. A more in-depth analysis would be needed to explore further trends. But, it does appear that the media attention is warranted and there are Indian workers contributing to help students to cheat &#8211; just as there are other nationalities doing likewise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is evidence that workers from India are included in the set of people helping students to commit contract cheating<\/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":[209,78,18,213,183,88,210,212,208,211,87,101],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contract-cheating","tag-assignments","tag-cheating","tag-contract-cheating-2","tag-economy","tag-essays","tag-freelancer","tag-ghostwriting","tag-homework","tag-india","tag-media","tag-outsourcing","tag-video"],"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":0,"uagb_excerpt":"There is evidence that workers from India are included in the set of people helping students to commit contract cheating","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}