Students Are Buying Their Homework and Term Papers On eBay...starting bids £1.50

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Students Are Buying Their Homework and Term Papers On eBay...starting bids £1.50

02-26-2006, 11:38 AM,

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Students Are Buying Their Homework and Term Papers On eBay...starting bids £1.50

Quote:GCSE and A-level coursework is being sold on eBay for as little as £1.50, fuelling fears that teenagers are buying work to pass off as their own.

As deadlines for the submission of examination essays approach, pupils can choose from hundreds of scripts posted on the internet auction site by students aiming to profit from their old school work.

One lot, with a starting bid of £2.99, boasted an A* grade, 2,800-word essay, plus bibliography, on Shakespeare's Macbeth. Another eBay entry offered an "originally written" AS-level biology essay for a minimum of just £1.50. To reassure the buyer, the student offered a scanned copy of the mark sheet as "proof that the coursework received full marks".

full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/26/nessay26.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/26/ixhome.html

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