Education And The Real World

More and more students are plagiarising material - and buying essays online, a BBC investigation suggests.

The boss of a firm selling coursework to students has admitted that her work "belittles the whole education system".

She told a BBC Radio 4 documentary she sells between 500 and 1,000 essays a week, mainly to overseas students studying in the UK. Prices start at £50.

This is in the same week that almost 300 school and college students were disqualified from exams in England last summer for malpractice involving mobile phones.