I was walking through South Kensington's Underground station when I saw this advertisement for an essay writing mill. I was disgusted that such a 'service' should be advertised so shamelessly in such a prominent place as the London Underground.

For this reason, I started a petition with Parliament to make it illegal for essay writing mills to operate in the UK. This should have been done years ago.

If you don't know what an 'essay writing mill' is then please understand that it's a company that writes essays for cash so that the students don't have to write them themselves. It's making a profit from despicable cheating on an industrial scale and it needs to be stopped.

Times Higher Education article

The company that wanted me to write students’ essays in return for cash

Vic Boyd

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Focus: The Chronicle of Higher Education

How Students Cheat in a High-Tech World

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Last I heard the government was planning to make the mills illegal. It's also good to see that University bosses have finally joined these calls to outlaw essay mill services:

BBC News: University bosses call for ban on essay writing companies Link

The Independent: 'Essay mills' should be made illegal, university bosses say Link