| 词条 | Draft:Oxbridge Essays |
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'Oxbridge Essays' is one of the better known 'Essay Mills' which provides model essays to university students. Over the past ten years it has been featured in numerous articles [1][2][3][4] investigating the industry which generates substantial revenues. Oxbridge Essays was founded in 2006 [5] by Philip Malamatinas following his expulsion from the University of Birmingham for undisclosed reasons. He was later joined by his elder brother Stratos Peter Malamatinas [6], a second class graduate in Theology & Philosophy from the University of Oxford, who left rival company UK Essays (whose advertisements were recently banned by the Advertising Standards Authority [7]) and his younger brother James Malamatinas who is still registered as a director [8] of the parent company The Oxbridge Research Group despite becoming a professional cameraman in 2011, working on many major films including Guardians of the Galaxy and The Party [9]. Although not listed as a director on Companies House, the present Managing Director is Philip Malamatinas who now runs the company alone following the departure of Stratos Peter Malamatinas to found 'The PhD Consultancy' and 'The London Essay Company'. Stratos Peter Malamatinas gained further notoriety after creating a social media 'firestorm' after changing his name to Eros de Gray and advertising in the Guardian [10][11][12] for a 'Miss Moneypenny/Lara Croft' personal assistant to help him to The industry, and Oxbridge Essays in particular, has been subject to a litany of articles questioning the legitimacy and ethics of its business model [13]. The latest journalistic enquiries by The BBC [14] and The Guardian [15] suggest that as many as 1 in 7 UK students may have submitted essays provided by such essay mills as their own original work in the past four years. The estimated value of the essay mill sector is unknown, although the published accounts [16] of The Oxbridge Research Group (TORG; trading as Oxbridge Essays) suggest that revenues for this company alone may approached up to £1.8 million per annum. The Company however reports a substantial debt and, with a large proportion of its declared six figure balance sheet being owed to TORG by the now defunct company 'TutorMe Ltd.' whose director is listed as Philip Malamatinas. Oxbridge Essays itself has been subject to advertising bans. In 2013 the Advertising Standards Authority ruled that Oxbridge Essays had breached advertising standards in claiming that grades for its model essays were guaranteed [17]. Oxbridge Essays have since been banned from the Google AdWords service and its sister website 'Academic Minds', which is used to recruit academics exclusively for the provision of model academic content for Oxbridge Essays, was prohibited by the Guardian from advertising for freelance academics within its classified jobs section. Recent calls for the essay mills like Oxbridge Essays to be banned have again resurfaced [18][19], although the practical means of doing so remain unclear unless such website portals can either be effectively blocked from advertising their services or only References1. ^{{Cite newspaper|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2007/apr/03/highereducation.students|title=Academics and students writing essays for sale|last=Shepherd|first=Jessica|last2=Tobin|first2=Lucy|date=2007-04-03|journal=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-09-27}} 2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pound630-and-ill-put-you-on-the-way-to-a-first-dgj5dp9vknl|title=‘£630 and I’ll put you on the way to a first’|last=Glass|first=Robin Henry, Cal Flyn and Katie|date=2014-06-15|work=The Sunday Times|access-date=2018-09-27|language=en|issn=0956-1382}} 3. ^{{Cite newspaper|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/04/essays-for-sale-the-booming-online-industry-in-writing-academic-work-to-order|title=Essays for sale: the booming online industry in writing academic work to order|last=Usborne|first=Simon|date=2017-03-04|journal=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-09-27}} 4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/essay-mills-university-course-work-to-order/2007934.article|title=Essay mills: university course work to order|date=2013-10-10|work=Times Higher Education (THE)|access-date=2018-09-27|language=en}} 5. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.thecomet.net/news/student-boss-defends-his-essays-for-sale-1-279569|title=Student boss defends his essays for sale’|work=The Comet|access-date=2018-09-27|language=en}} 6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pound630-and-ill-put-you-on-the-way-to-a-first-dgj5dp9vknl|title=‘£630 and I’ll put you on the way to a first’|last=Glass|first=Robin Henry, Cal Flyn and Katie|date=2014-06-15|work=The Sunday Times|access-date=2018-09-27|language=en|issn=0956-1382}} 7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/education-43474612|title='Misleading' essay writing ads banned|date=2018-03-21|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-09-27|language=en-GB}} 8. ^{{Cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06381412/officers|title=THE OXBRIDGE RESEARCH GROUP LTD - Officers (free information from Companies House)|website=beta.companieshouse.gov.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-09-27}} 9. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2993543/|title=James Malamatinas|website=IMDb|access-date=2018-09-27}} 10. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/eros-de-grey-job-advert-seeking-charismatic-literary-assistant-on-guardian-website-sparks-twitter-a6692301.html|title=The Guardian just published the worst advert and people noticed|work=The Independent|access-date=2018-09-27|language=en-GB}} 11. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11928779/Charisma-cocktails-and-Lara-Croft-Heres-how-to-get-a-job-ladies.html|title=Charisma, cocktail dresses and Lara Croft: Here's what you need to get a job ladies!|last=Reid|first=Rebecca|date=2015-10-13|access-date=2018-09-27|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}} 12. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/lonely-hearts-job-advert-seeking-6626254|title=Job ad for ‘charismatic literary assistant’ is more like a 'Lonely hearts' post|last=McCrum|first=Kirstie|date=2015-10-13|work=mirror|access-date=2018-09-27}} 13. ^{{Cite newspaper|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/21/plan-to-crack-down-on-websites-selling-essays-to-students-announced|title=Plan to crack down on websites selling essays to students announced|last=Khomami|first=Nadia|date=2017-02-21|journal=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-09-27}} 14. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/education-45640236|title=Unis demand ban on essay-writing firms|last=Smith|first=Katherine|date=2018-09-27|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-09-27|language=en-GB}} 15. ^{{Cite newspaper|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/sep/27/university-chiefs-urge-education-secretary-to-ban-essay-mills|title=University chiefs 'urge education secretary to ban essay mills'|last=Association|first=Press|date=2018-09-27|journal=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-09-27}} 16. ^{{Cite web|url=https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/06381412-the-oxbridge-research-group-ltd|title=The Oxbridge Research Group Ltd - 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Evening Express|date=2018-09-27|work=Evening Express|access-date=2018-09-27|language=en-US}} 21. ^{{Cite news|url=https://russellgroup.ac.uk/news/call-for-ban-on-essay-mills/|title=Call for ban on essay mills|work=The Russell Group|access-date=2018-09-27|language=en}} |
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