A happy graduand. The Ministry of Education has been pushing universities to offer market-driven programmes, march enrolment to their capacities and diversify their revenue streams.
On Thursday, PayPal, announced it was withdrawing its services to essay-writing firms selling to university students.
Essay companies rely heavily on payment platforms to process student orders and payments for those who do the academic writing.
Universities in Kenya prohibit academic cheating but there is no law preventing Kenyans from engaging in the practice for students in other countries.
Thousands of jobless graduates from Kenya who help lazy university students in developed countries to cheat academically could soon be forced to find something else to do after the UK government started clamping down on essay mills.
On Thursday, international digital money transfer service, PayPal, announced it was withdrawing its services to essay-writing firms selling to university students. This was after weeks of pressure from the UK government, which insists stopping payments for essay mills would go a long way in beating academic cheating.
