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Social media study sheds light on scale of ‘contract cheating’
Universities have been told to tighten up their security after researchers discovered examples of students openly soliciting for impersonators to take exams for them (see box).
Thomas Lancaster from Imperial College London and Alexander Amigud from the Center for the Study of Social Processes in Toronto, Canada, scoured more than 1,500 tweets from students asking for someone to carry out their work in exchange for cash.
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