An in depth expose on essay mills. My two cents: bring back oral exams. Make it understood that students will be thoroughly quizzed on all portions of their paper.
Two: this is more evidence that in our meritocratic educational imperative, we are engaging in mass self-deception akin to when Mao's agricultural 'reforms' caused mass famine in China. Everyone is saying, yes, I'm educated, yes I have a degree (yes, s/he's educated, yes, s/he has a degree). But it's all only so much fakery. The degree is merely a receipt. Give out less degrees, make them mean more. Quit the systematic disruption of the economy (which parades under the name of progress) which exports lower skilled jobs and forces everyone to become part of the global farce. In a word, shove a stick into the treadmill of education and unstrap the progress harness.
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