Paying people to do your coursework....

and i think thats awful, we pay a similar amount (at least at my uni it is similar) to post grads, we should be entitled to the same amount of care. It infuriates me that people continue to get away with these things

They have argued to me in the past that the skills we gain on our degree arent that relevant anyway so it wouldnt affect them... and in some ways i agree with that, im not sure how relevant any degree is if its not medical or science based...

I wouldnt do it, I wouldnt be able to say i earned my degree if i did. But its so easy for them to get away with it, and i dont understand why people do it :/

Out of curiosity, what course are you doing, I find that this isn't a problem in STEM roles as if you somehow cheated, you would be shooting yourself in the foot.

Mmmm ok then. Why not ask the people who do it? Alternatively if yu know people are doing it, then you could report them assuming you have evidence.

That's a pretty rubbish argument from them. If the skills aren't relevant than why even bother doing a degree if they're getting nothing out of it except debt and paper. I will never understand people who cheat. I can kind of agree too but personally I've already learned so much and I've not even finished first year yet.

Its cheating and technically fraud so they should be kicked out.

technically yeah, but it doesnt seem to happen, I know people in final year now who have done it since first year :/

I know quite a few people that have started paying people online to do their coursework for them; either because they've got other stuff on or they just cant be bothered.
I don't get why you would want to do it, because surely it is no longer your degree.
What are your thoughts?

I'm of two minds about it. There are some instances where the coursework I've been set was so utterly crap and poorly thought out, with no teaching support, that I regret not paying someone in China to do it for me.

If I feel like I can learn something from it, effectively and efficiently (which requires various other prerequisites to be satisfied... such as teaching support), then I'm pretty enthusiastic about it. Otherwise I'm just like... wtf is this.

Respect is a two way thing. If some lecturers can't even muster up basic courtesy of explaining what the coursework is about and don't give straightforward answers to questions on that front, then I'm hardly prepared to waste my time doing their job for them. Technically it's also a breach of contract... though I don't by default look for a fight, so will settle for whatever solution there is that gets me out of the woods the soonest. If it means paying someone else... I'd be prepared to. I have not done that for quite some time though.

When I studied in Poland, it was not so simple. They ask you questions on the coursework when you are handing it in, to make sure it is in fact your work. There were a few occasions where someone else, ahem, 'helped' me with the tedious bits of a coursework, in exchange for a 'favor'... but I could always answer the questions because at the end of the day I did the brainwork and understood the design principles. For example, some lecturers demanded coursework to be hand-written. F88k that. I did it on PC (10x faster to work with, edit, etc. you know), then paid someone with similar writing to hand write it for me. This sort of antiquated teaching style irritates me when there are much better methods today for comparison, and I don't pay it any respects.

I'm doing engineering, which should lend some context to what I've said.

There are some students that just buy everything they can because they get too much allowance from their parents. I've completed coursework for other students in exchange for money as well this way. Their loss, my gain, I don't care.

BIG NO NO. Not only is it pathetic and wrong, but by doing it you're risking being found out and having all your work thrown out.
Imagine how lucrative it could be getting paid to do coursework for people them blackmailing them with threats of turning them in.

I completely agree that some of thee wok we receive is pointless, but is that not something that we have to get used to? as in the working world oour boss will likely do the same every now and then.

I think thats quite a good system, but it could be avoided by just reading the work that you paid for. Writing up by had is such a waste of time though!

Overall though, do you not feel like the 'help' you received has taken away that the degree is truly yours?

If there was enough jobs to go around I would totally agree, but its likely that those 2 people will be directly competing for roles, and on paper they look the same and there is no real way of proving that you are the one the worked harder...

Coursework is irrelvant and a flaw to the education system, hence why it was largely removed from the majority of respectable subjects. Teachers cheat, not the student. Teachers give all the answers, the system is easily corruptable and broken. Paying others to do the coursework is equivalent to doing it in a school, where teachers install the answers into your work and practically compelte the work for you.