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.

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Want proof?!

[wmbetts]

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Re:Thank minimum wage

[Red Flayer]

Why? Because inflation is keyed to minimum wage.

That's a myth.

Even the Cato institute doesn't buy cost-push inflation:

Some opponents of the minimum wage argue that it aggravates inflation by pushing up the costs of individual businesses. [4] Those businesses, unwilling or unable to absorb such costs, pass them on to consumers in the form of higher prices. In this view, any artificial increase in labor costs can produce so-called cost-push inflation.

There are several problems with the notion of cost-push inflation. The primary error in this analysis is that it confuses a shift in the structure of relative prices with a general rise in the level of prices. If the labor costs of businesses are increased and they succeed in passing on the costs to consumers in the form of higher prices, they will have managed to change the structure of relative prices at the expense of businesses that are unable to raise their prices because of more-intense competition. This is quite distinct from a general increase in the level of prices, which would be possible only if the real supply of money was increased.

Many firms, however, may be unable to pass on their increased costs to consumers. It is consumers who ultimately determine the price of any good on the market, and they may decide that a business's product is not worth a higher price. Producers cannot force consumers to buy what they produce, and businesses cannot always arbitrarily increase the prices of their products simply because the government has arbitrarily increased their costs.

This fact has important implications. If a business cannot simply pass along its new labor costs, it must somehow absorb them--by eliminating workers rendered unproductive by the new minimum wage, by replacing labor with more-productive machines, or by cutting back production. Those jobs not eliminated will be more demanding, as employers will use fewer people to produce the same amount of work.

Re:Thank minimum wage

[robthebloke]

Well, I've personally recieved e-mails from students asking for help from the UK, US, Spain and pakistan to name but a few. I actually submitted some of the funnier ones here

Re:Thank minimum wage

[WhiteHorse-The Origi]

In Asia, plagiarism is common. It is a HUGE problem. I bet most University graduates in Asia plagiarized their thesis and other work. It's sooo obvious, just look at their publications and read their books. It's like they just took someone else's book and shuffled the chapters, changing a few words here and there. They submit it, it passes the automated plagiarism detector, and poof! they're a goddam genius!!! PhD! Woo!

Then you ask them a simple question that's in their field and they have no clue. But you said in your thesis... Or What was your thesis about?

From what I gather, many of these students go to US universities, get their degrees there and come back to Asia and make top dollar. The universities just turn a blind eye and take as much money as possible. It's sad but true.