Lecturers at Birmingham City University have said that cheating in IT courses is rampant.

According to Thomas Lancaster and Robert Clarke, there has been an enormous increase in the use of websites offering fake freelance project work and tutorials, especially in IT courses. Students post their requirements and buy the course work, completed by IT professionals.

Students select a completed task, and pay £5 to £50, submitting it as their own work to gain their degrees. The practice is difficult to detect through normal plagiarism detection software.

This practice, commonly called ‘contract cheating,’ is even more evident in India and Romania, India being more vulnerable as there is no language barrier. Already, companies are outsourcing their businesses to India, and the money paid has a higher value there. X

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