10 Mar 2020

Black market for university essays on the rise

From First Up, 5:37 am on 10 March 2020

There's a growing black market for university essays - with a university lecturer revealing they've seen mutliple copies of the same essay handed in. Figures obtained under the Official Information Act by Consumer New Zealand found that in 2019 misconduct cases across all universities rose by 13 percent from 2017, with over half related to plagiarism. University of Waikato senior law lecturer Dr Myra Williamson told our reporter Louise Ternouth she thinks the problem is worse than the figures suggest.