A British news agency - Mail Online investigation has revealed that Kenya is linked to the thousands of cheating by university students across the globe.
The damning expose revealed that hundreds of thousands of students are cheating their way to PhDs by paying companies to write their dissertations at a fee.
According to the British media, doctorate candidates pay between Ksh264,000 to Ksh792,000 for dissertations.
A senior fellow at Imperial College London -Dr Thomas Lancaster, who specializes in academic integrity revealed that the Daily Mail investigation had barely scratched the surface.
"Kenya is the hotbed where all the writing happens. There is high unemployment and a job working from home is coveted. They have good English and low overheads," he disclosed.
Mr Lancaster went on to reveal that Kenyans numbering in thousands had set up informal workspaces to facilitate a global exam cheating syndicate.
"There are thousands of people in Kenya whose job is to write essays for cheating students. There are several writers in every apartment block," he claimed.
Job offers are normally posted by students in Europe or the US who are too lazy to do them, with payment based per page.
In Kenya, a Daily Nation investigation carried out on Monday affirmed that countless young people are rooted in the practice full-time.
"For Ksh30,000 to Ksh50,000, depending on the course, one can get a research project done in two weeks to a month," stated an excerpt from the publication.
In September 20, 208, the Kenyan govt launched a special programme dubbed the Ajira digital programme, an initiative seeking to empower over a million young people to secure digital jobs easily.
A motion is set to be tabled in the UK parliament to ban all forms of advertising for any assistance in academic work.
Over 40 Vice Chancellors in the UK also called on their Education Secretary - Damian Hinds, to ban cheating websites, as is the case are in New Zealand and some parts of the United States.
