Oh what a surprise…
An exclusive 1 NEWS investigation has uncovered allegations of widespread cheating, undermining the integrity of New Zealand’s universities and tertiary institutions.
Chinese students have told 1 NEWS that as many as half of the international students studying at Auckland University buy their essays from ghostwriters.
More than 125,000 international students study in New Zealand, the biggest group from China, followed by India.
They contributed a massive $4.6 billion to our economy last year, our fifth biggest export earner.
But if cheating is as rampant as alleged what will this do for our reputation?Â
…so cheating students at exploitative educational facilities doing scam degrees huh?
There should be no surprises, the fake international education industry is rife with corruption, substandard education and are mostly framed as a path way to citizenship. Desperate students who are out of their cultural spaces who have paid enormous amounts to be here are going to cheat and the big education providers don’t give two shits.
They see international students as cash cows and don’t care that ghost writing is huge business.
We need to cauterise the entire international student industry with vastly more oversight on the crisis being taken, the fee structures, student support and eliminate citizenship pathways.
Many international students are exploited by the education provider AND any work they pick up from unscrupulous business owners (who many times are the same culture as the student they are exploiting).
We currently do these international students a terrible disservice so news there is cheating rife throughout the entire structure is the perfect symptom to a rotten industry.
Working as designed @Martyn.*
Remember it’s only recently the Labour Inspectorate has started to take all this seriously and INZ are still making major fuckups.
But Ministers continue to “have faith in their officials”.
*And if today’s revelations (not that they were a secret) by the Privacy Commissioner doesn’t provoke a call for a few resignations, nothing will.
+100 Great Post !
This will undermine the reputation and standing of New Zealand universities
….and citizenship must NOT be tied to studying in New Zealand ( by cheating students)
…the rot set in with the John Key Nact Government
Agreed 100 Red Buzzard, was bloody jonkys doing alright. No morals in sight for that boy! Great post Martyn, and like you say, Gee what a surprise, another rotten industry in Godszone.
Actually, Bolger started this if I remember right.
This is not just about ‘exploitative’ tertiary education, it is all about commercialisation of education, it becoming a commodity, about corruption and about a drop in standards, certainly NOT unique to NZ Inc..
https://www.google.co.nz/search?biw=1090&bih=632&ei=6f_cXJHKIezez7sP76ak4As&q=ghostwriters+for+hire&oq=ghostwriters&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0i131j0l9.16805.17459..20491…0.0..0.187.711.0j4……0….1..gws-wiz…….0i71j0i22i30j0i22i10i30.iXJ4lN2s4HQ
Hence I have had for some years now a dim view of degrees and those going around with their titles and so.
I used to respect studied persons and science and so, these days I am very careful with that.
We live in a society where BS is the norm now. People do all to advance themselves, as every society is now totally competitive, we get immigrants come here with fake degrees, and it is catching on locally also.
The others who do not offer fake degrees have obtained them with fraudulent means.
It is all the same, so we have an education system that can no longer be taken serious and that has lost its reputation and credibility.
I despise some ‘studied’ persons, they come across arrogant, with an entitlement attitude, and expect the rest of society to bow to them and respect their ‘judgments’ and ‘decisions’ on often very important matters.
When we have what we have, you cannot trust their judgment, as they may have obtained their educational degree by fraud and BS artistry.
Totallly disgusted with this buy a diploma or BA.
I now think this was far more comoon than we thought.
As a tradesman I had to sit a five year apprentiship to get my certification and those University types on my first ship to England loooked down their noses at me and now I feel proud I did it all on my own.
Not just a problem for tradies chum. Those of us who paid a fortune for our tertiary education (all of it borrowed and many of us still paying it back) are none too impressed that New Zealand’s tertiary education sector has gained a reputation for being greedy and willing to look the other way on student cheating in return for revenue.
My degree, which I sweated my guts out for and most definitely did not involve cheating, is significantly devalued if the reputation of the university that granted it turns to dogshit.
really Simon you need to blame the national government they cut university funding and they were trying to privatise education and everything else they could sell or get their dirty little hands on.
I blame the National government for the entire disaster Michelle (and a whole lot more besides).
Quality education used to be seen at as a long-term good for the nation and its citizens. Now it’s just a fly-by-night ponzi scheme in which getting rich before the whole thing implodes is the only objective.
Our society will be becoming year by year more corrupt with immigrants who got NZ citizenship this way. Start shipping them out.
This churns my guts. A couple of Asian friends sometimes reached out to me for a hand with their essays when the going got tough back in the late 90s. Another friend would get a hand from time to time with her assignments from her Kiwi partner. It’s a continuum but it definitely slides into fraud once you’re not even drafting your own essay. The universities had better step up editing assistance and crack down on ghostwriting at the same time. But also seriously rethink entry requirements for students without an English-language education background – essay-based papers might just be too hard for most.
This churns my guts. A couple of Asian friends sometimes reached out to me for a hand with their essays when the going got tough back in the late 90s. Another friend would get a hand from time to time with her assignments from her Kiwi partner. It’s a continuum but it definitely slides into fraud once you’re not even drafting your own essay. The universities had better step up editing assistance and crack down on ghostwriting at the same time. But also seriously rethink entry requirements for students without an English-language education background – essay-based papers might just be too hard for most.
My concern is the cheating students coming here and taking our jobs with their dubious NZ qualification. I believe it is already happening national sold us all down the toilet.
So, now it has hit the education sector. It can now be affected like everything else when immigration is the way to make a dollar.
And don’t expect anything to change. Standards are far less important than profit.
Just don’t complain. You may be called a “racist”.
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