Plan to prosecute firms who offer paid-for essays to students

While current guidelines deal with plagiarism, they do not address ‘essay
mills’

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   The scale of contract cheating is difficult to estimate, though there
   have been about 1,000 cases of students in Ireland being disciplined
   for plagiarism since 2010

   The scale of contract cheating is difficult to estimate, though there
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   The scale of contract cheating is difficult to estimate, though there
   have been about 1,000 cases of students in Ireland being disciplined
   for plagiarism since 2010


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   The move is a response to mounting concern over the practice which
   allows students to circumvent their college’s plagiarism detection
   systems. The use of these services is not easily detected as software
   used by universities only detects where students have copied from
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Paid-for essays

   While current guidelines deal with plagiarism, they do not address the
   issue of so-called contact cheating or the use of paid-for essays.

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   The QQI’s guidelines advise colleges that they “should have effective
   policies and procedures in place to prevent, detect, combat and deter
   plagiarism at all levels”.
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   The scale of contract cheating is difficult to estimate, though there
   have been about 1,000 cases of students in Ireland being disciplined
   for plagiarism since 2010, according to figures compiled by The Irish
   Times last year.

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   Of those that did, the Institute of Technology Tallaght topped the list
   of detected cases of plagiarism (206), followed by the University of
   Limerick (162) and DIT (143). The scale of detected issues is likely to
   be bigger at IT Tallaght as it has extensive detection policies.
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Online source

   The company insists it does not condone plagiarism, and says all
   “clients are expected to use and reference it as they would any other
   online source”.
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   growing and it was typically completing roughly 350 projects a year.

   Mr Bruton’s spokesman said: “Plagiarism is currently subject to
   institutional disciplinary sanctions up to and including exclusion from
   the programme.
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   offering the ‘service’ will not disclose it, those buying it will not,
   and there is no system-wide recording of detected instances of this or
   any other form of plagiarism”.