PayPal Clampdown on UK Academic Cheating Could Drive Kenyan Writers to Bitcoin

2019-4-10 02:00

PayPal announced last week that it would no longer process payments associated with academic essay-writing services, intended to give wealthy, lazy students in the UK a way to get qualified without working for it.

Although the move might benefit the UK education system, it could cause the loss of jobs for thousands of academics living. . .

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