{"id":79553,"date":"2025-09-14T17:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79553"},"modified":"2025-09-14T17:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:31:01","slug":"inside-the-world-of-kenyas-shadow-scholars-paid-to-write-essays-for-uk-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/14\/inside-the-world-of-kenyas-shadow-scholars-paid-to-write-essays-for-uk-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the world of Kenya\u2019s \u2018shadow scholars\u2019 paid to write essays for UK students"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Mwm7e.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The writers create fake IDs, using white profiles and names, because they say it helps convince clients they are up to the task. Photograph: Channel 4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a secret industry that generates billions of dollars a year. Its workers are bright, industrious and completely anonymous. Their job is writing essays to order for students \u2013 in the UK and elsewhere \u2013 to help them get good degrees.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/inside-the-world-of-kenya-s-shadow-scholars-paid-to-write-essays-for-uk-students\/ar-AA1MwAZO?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=68c6fa8427d84814b51acd3eed142a96&amp;ei=16\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>There is a secret industry that generates billions of dollars a year. Its workers are bright, industrious and completely anonymous. Their job&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Graduation.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79554,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79553\/revisions\/79554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}