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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…”
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