Ethical? Tuition agency hiring tutors to do school projects

• QX179R

  29 Mar 11, 23:23

  

  STOMPer Private Tutor received an email looking for tutors to help students do their school work and the STOMPer wonders if it is ethical to do so.
  
  Said the STOMPer:
  
  "I was looking through my mail and when I noticed this email.
  
  "Agencies are looking for tutors to start up their unethical business of helping students to do their school work.
  
  "This a country based on merit, but with unethical people like this, are projects a fair way to grade students anymore?"

   

  http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sgseen/what_bugs_me/590990/is_this_ethical_tuition_agency_hiring_tutors_to_do_school_projec.html

• FireIce

  29 Mar 11, 23:30

  bcos got demand.
  
  
  anyway, too cheap.

• fudgester

  30 Mar 11, 08:43

  Guiding students with their projects is acceptable.

  But doing their projects for them is totally wrong.

  It is unfortunate that there is a demand for such services. I hope that whichever farker who uses such services will be thrown out of school.

• eagle

  30 Mar 11, 09:05

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  Guiding students with their projects is acceptable.

  But doing their projects for them is totally wrong.

  It is unfortunate that there is a demand for such services. I hope that whichever farker who uses such services will be thrown out of school.

  I had such requests before while in NUS.

  One of the reasons for such is that these are paid by "students" on student passes, but actually working "part-time" outside of school, and as a result had "no available free time" to do their projects.

• syncopation_music

  30 Mar 11, 09:09

  Do simple homework but Thesis writing and Projects for Graduation is a no-no

   

  This clearly spell disaster .In malaysia its getting rampant

   

  Such a fake thesis full of plagiarism and project copied illegally will void the years of studies

   

  http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2007/12/22/fake-thesis-and-pseud-phds-why-no-action-by-mustapha-and-higher-education-ministry/

   

  http://francishunt.blogspot.com/2011/03/project-guttenberg-iii-minister-resigns.html

   

  http://www.groundreport.com/Politics/Scandal-Over-Iranian-Ministers-Forged-Oxford-Unive/2868079

• Darkness_hacker99

  30 Mar 11, 17:57

  Agree with fifi, there is a demand for that.

  It's kinda unethical...

  Usually I'll just stay back in school, join in some meetings and offer some advice to the group and their report

• ditzy

  30 Mar 11, 18:00

  Wah, uni level project only $250 ah, so cheap ah? Foreign countries unis all already play this game how long ago. Singapore took so long to catch up meh.

• fudgester

  30 Mar 11, 18:53

  Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:

  Agree with fifi, there is a demand for that.

  It's kinda unethical...

  Usually I'll just stay back in school, join in some meetings and offer some advice to the group and their report

  It is not 'kinda' unethical. It is 'totally' unethical.

  It is really too much of a slippery slope to condone this thing. First you start with several cheaters. Then if they go unpunished, the other honest students will realize that their hard work counts for sh*t. They then have no incentive to do their work honestly, and will similarly cheat.

  Then when they go into society, they bring their cheating habits with them.