KZBlog

I wrote earlier about essay mills in Kazakhstan, where people write papers for students. While it is widely believed that former Soviet countries are more prone to cheating and corruption than Western nations, I found this interesting video tour of a US essay mill website from the Chronicle of Higher Education. So it’s not just here that people pay for papers. In fact perhaps we should praise Kazakhstan for its innovation. The report ends with the words: “In a pre-Internet era you couldn’t run a company like this..the Internet makes this possible.” Yet here in Astana, these companies don’t seem to have much web presence. Everything is done over the phone or in person.