Surrogate Scholars are Big Business in Vietnam

Ghostwriters, plagiarism abound

At 4 am recently in Ho Chi Minh City, a woman who identifies herself only by the name Nguyễn tried her best not to wake up her newborn son. She had an online exam on Business Fundamentals in an hour in Australia – not her own, but rather a final exam she had been paid to take. In an hour, a stranger would copy and paste all his exam questions onto a Goo…