The Shadow Scholars

What is education ultimately worth if it can be purchased rather than gained? This documentary lifts the lid on a twilight academic industry.

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Credits

  • Director

    Eloise King

  • UK 2024. 97min

  • Courtesy of

    Dogwoof

  • Language

    English

Introduction

When Oxford Professor Patricia Kingori travels to Kenya, she uncovers the murky, multi-billion global underworld of essay-writing. Thousands of young and highly educated Kenyans – overqualified and chronically underemployed – have found lucrative work writing essays for students around the globe who are able and willing to pay for them. It’s a complex portrait of an issue that undermines the foundations of a pillar of humanity: education.

Lynn Nwokorie

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