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Essay mills are now illegal - Skills Minister calls on internet service platforms to crack down on advertising

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Skills Minister Alex Burghart has written to internet service platforms to make sure they know that essay mills - which facilitate cheating by helping academic writing, often by appearing to be legitimate - have been made illegal and to call …

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