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IT Students Contract Out Coursework To India
An anonymous reader writes "Students studying computing in the UK and US are outsourcing their university coursework to graduates in India and Romania. Work is being contracted out for as little as £5 on contract coding websites usually used by businesses. Students are outsourcing everything from simple coursework to full blown final year dissertations. It's causing a major headache for lecturers who say it is almost impossible to detect." The irony, of course, is that if they actually get jobs in the sector, this will be how they actually work anyway.
"Why do you think minimum wage laws and unions were formed in the first place?"
Unions were formed in the first place to deny the right to get a job to those not in the unions. Since those in strong unions could not be fired that easily, the minimum wage laws worked fine for them, but not for those in weaker unions or not union members. This happened the same in Europe and US.