Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Chinese students in Australia use ghosting service

The Sydney Morning Herald and Western Australia Today are reporting on a Sydney company called MyMaster that is offering ghostwriting services to Chinese students enrolled in Australian universities. I've collected the links and the first paragraphs of the articles here. It is excellent to see such widespread reporting on academic misconduct.
  • WA's Curtin University caught in NSW 'essay writing' scandal
    "Western Australia's Curtin University has been caught up in a cash-for-results scandal involving thousands of students who paid a Sydney company up to $1000 each to write essays and assignments for them, as well as sit online tests." The article has links to other articles on grade changing scandals.
  • Students enlist MyMaster website to write essays, assignments
    "Thousands of students have enlisted a Sydney company to write essays and assignments for them as well as sit online tests, paying up to $1000 for the service. Their desire to succeed threatens the credibility and international standing of some of our most prestigious institutions."
  • Students buying assignments online could be charged with fraud
    "Students who pay essay writing services to complete their university assignments are not only breaching university plagiarism protocols but could also be charged with fraudulent conduct under NSW [New South Wales] legislation, legal experts say."
  • Yingying Dou: The mastermind behind the University essay writing machine
    "At the helm of the company embroiled in a large-scale academic cheating scandal is a Chinese-born businesswoman named Yingying Dou. The enterprising 30-year-old, who also goes by 'Serena', has used her accounting degree to build a lucrative ghostwriting service, called MyMaster, aimed at Chinese international students."
  • Yingying Dou takes the day off as students and tutors tell of others who cheat
    "Tutors and students at Yingcredible Tutoring, the coaching college run by the mastermind of essay-selling website MyMaster, Yingying Dou, have spoken of the widespread practice of international students paying for university essays as they struggle with language barriers."
  • Universities in damage control after widespread cheating revealed
    "NSW universities are in damage control following a Fairfax Media investigation that revealed hundreds of students across the state were engaging the services of an online essay writing business.
    On Wednesday, the Herald exposed an online business called MyMaster, run out of Sydney's Chinatown, that had provided more than 900 assignments to students from almost every university in NSW, turning over at least $160,000 in 2014."
The site has now been taken offline.
Thanks to Sven for spotting these articles!

3 comments:

  1. You say: "It is excellent to see such widespread reporting on academic misconduct." I wonder how much reporting we would have seen if it wasn't about chinese students, but White Anglo-Saxon Protestants...

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    1. Hahahaha.... pathetic attempt to play the race card. It IS the Chinese students that are the ones cheating on a massive scale, not others. I used to tutor students at an Australian university and I had so-called post-graduate students from China who could barely string two sentences together.

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