Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department has (a) considered and (b) taken to ensure that businesses advertising assignment writing services clearly state the potential ramifications for students of portraying such materials as their own work.

This is an issue which the Higher Education sector takes very seriously and where institutions have clear policies in place.

Institutions are supported in this area by the work of Plagiarism Advice (www.plagiarismadvice.org) which was established to address concerns about plagiarism and the authenticity of student work. The sanctions that universities are able to apply to students who attempt to pass off work as their own, when it is not, are serious and significant.