Ukessays.com
Ukessays.com is an online provider of custom written essays, dissertations and other academic works. The site was founded by Barclay Littlewood and is trading name of All Answers Ltd, a UK company formed on November 14, 2003 (originally called Academic Answers Ltd until 2006). In July 2009 the Barclay stepped down as CEO and was replaced by the Current CEO, Tony Eynon.
In early 2010 the company relocated to new offices in Arnold, Nottinghamshire where they are still based (May 2014).
In addition to offering academic writing service the website also has a large amount of free to use content including sample essays and dissertations.
Controversy
Since the website's creation in 2003 there has been much controversy relating to the writing services that the website offers. In 2006 Independent Television News carried out an "undercover" investigation of the company but eventually concluded that the company lived up to the promises it made to deliver work of an appropriate academic standard. Later in 2006. In April 2010 The Sunday Times ran a front page article revealing their undercover investigation of UKEssays.com titled "Essay factory’ offers 2:1 degree or your cash back".
The Sunday Telegraph have also written about the work supplied by the company in an article titled "Students can buy an essay worth a 2:1". In the article Bahram Bekhradnia, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute was quoted as saying "It is potentially very serious and undermines the whole fabric of higher education". The CEO of UKEssays.com, Tony Eynon, responded to the comments saying "If you buy one of our model answers, it is no different from using journals, newspaper articles, Wikipedia or, indeed, the past paper answers that your own tutor hands out in lectures or seminars. They are just a very powerful learning resource but catered to your own topic"
See also
- Essay Mill
- Plagiarism