When Oxford Professor Patricia Kingori travels to Kenya, she uncovers the murky, multi-billion global underworld of essay-writing. Thousands of young and highly educated Kenyans – overqualified and chronically underemployed – have found lucrative work writing essays for students around the globe who are able and willing to pay for them. It’s a complex portrait of an issue that undermines the foundations of a pillar of humanity: education.
Director: Eloise King
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Professor Patrician Kingori is a senior professor of sociology at the University of Oxford, and in this overlong documentary she investigates the growing use of surrogate brains to write coursework for those too lazy\busy or just plain unskilled to do it for themselves. Her study…
