I don't doubt this is happening (I have even seen "essay mill" ads targeted at these students), and I am pretty sure cheating happens in every corner of the wor

I don't doubt this is happening (I have even seen "essay mill" ads targeted at these students), and I am pretty sure cheating happens in every corner of the world. But hey, can we get a sense of the actual scale this is happening to understand the issue better? > She [Yasmin] later found out that of the 100 students on most of her modules, "maybe 80 or 90 of them bought assignments" from so-called "essay mills" based overseas. > He [A Russell Group university professor] tells File on 4 that 70% of his students at master’s degree level over the past five years did not have sufficient English language skills to be on the course Come on BBC, you are writing an entire story based on random people's very questionable estimates? "Maybe 80 or 90", "sufficient English language skills", without concrete data or more precise definition of what constitutes "sufficient".