A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
UK Essays.com has admitted for the first time that 142 of our students bought essays from them last year, many of which were tailor-made and cost between £200 and £1,000.
The website allows students to specify their essay title and have an answer written by a graduate, which nobody but them has seen before.
Buyers can choose the word count, important references and degree classification - with a £1,000 guarantee that university authorities won't bust them for plagiarism.
UK Essays.com director Barclay Littlewood said: "We help students that are simply struggling with their essays to achieve better degrees by providing them with a blueprint of a graded answer that they can use as inspiration.”
He projected that UK Essays.com would make £2.5 million this financial year.
Typically, a 2:1 essay costs £60 per 500 words. However, for a three hour turnaround, buyers pay £1,500 for a 2,500-word essay. A first class undergraduate dissertation essay can be valued at up to £4000.
We help students struggling with their essays to achieve better degrees
A spokesperson for the University said: "Any student submitting all or part of an essay purchased from, or edited by, a company such as UK Essays.com would be committing serious academic misconduct..."
He added: "Plagiarism is relatively rare at York - there were approximately 50 cases in the past year."
UK Essays.com says it has about 6,000 customers - the majority of which study law, humanities or business.
The University advises essay markers to carry out random checks on assessed work using Internet search engines.
Last year Google introduced a ban on advertising from essay-writing agencies.
Great exclusive.
Who's got 4k to buy a dissertation?!
Have you met some of the students who go to this university? 4K is nothing to some people
Let's face it, 90% of students would cheat to get a first.
speak for yourself, cheating is a waste of time and money.. if you can't do it yourself, then don't do it.
I don't know, I agree with #4, if you have got money to burn, £4000 to get one huge foot in the door with respect to the big wide world outside of university is a relatively small price to pay. I'm in no way agreeing with it, but in the pursuit of academic mastery (on paper at least)...
I don’t get it at all. There must be easier ways to effectively buy a qualification. What’s the point in being here for three to four years if you’re going to do no work? People buy degrees online for less than those essays! What wasters.
Is the bigger question not how we can stop them getting away with this?
In my opinion it is vital that the university develops methods to detect this type of cheating. Although the people who partake in such activity are ultimately cheating themselves (and by that I mean incompetence rarely goes unnoticed in the workplace), they are also cheating you and me. Effectively they are devaluing every one of our degrees in the eyes of potential employers. If you NEED to cheat in order to increase your degree classification then you should seriously reflect on the targets that you have set your self in terms of your future employment. They are clearly unrealistic.
You'd think whoever is getting paid four grand could afford a nice pen, and not have to use a pencil.
I think it is really bad that this happens, but I can imagine situations where people would do this. If you have spent thousands on degree and failing or not getting a degree you can get a job with, what is a bit more money? Who wants to spend thousands of pounds to fail a degree.
no.10, whoever you are, I love you.
People with money/friends will always have the capability to beat the system. Be it in education, tax, careers, or anything.
I don't understand the motivation here... how is saving yourself a few hours going to be worth hundreds of pounds? And yeah - who has that money?
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