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Channel 4 Dispatches has found that nearly 60,000

university students have been accused of plagiarism, in the
last four years. More than 40,000 disciplined, over 400

excluded and 12,000 had marks deducted. (1)

Mark Ridlolfo, a standards expert at Bournemouth
University says: “There’s a whole gamut of offences that

students can commit and, they range from copying work

without correctly acknowledging the source right the way

through to really serious offences such as using essay
banks.”(1)

Dr Thomas Lancaster (1) estimated that, based on quoted
UK Essay figures, the industry was worth £200 million a year

and of this 1.5% 0f all invoices are in excess of £5,000 (2)

We're delighted to have procured a whopping £9 million in
fees for researchers since 2009. With 1 in 10 writers working

with us full time, and 1.5% of our researcher’s invoices being

over £5000 a month (2).