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It was against this background that it recently came to
our attention that a website, ‘caseforest.com’, was
offering paid business case study solutions. This was an
interesting development and certainly one that required
some investigation. Caseforest.com, are not the only site
offering this service, but it was one we thought we could
examine.
Our first step was to contextualise why this development
occurred. Part of the reason is that we humans are a
problem-solving species with genetically coded desire to
progress through resolving challenges. However, for
some e.g. student plagiarists, a quick fix for academic
problems i.e. assessment/coursework/examinations, is
recourse to the web for solutions that shortcut both
effort and grading.
Against this, paid for business case solutions, like paid for
essays, are both educationally corrosive and fraudulent.
In February 2017, the Guardian newspaper wrote that:
“University students could be fined or handed criminal
records for plagiarised essays, new proposals suggest…”