LookAtVietnam – It can cost as little as 100,000 dong to purchase a thesis oline that, with just a little bit of personalizing, can lead to a master’s degree.

The online thesis market

“In order to meet the increasingly high demand for theses for reference, http://luanvan.net has been unceasingly upgraded and developed. Its advert states: “Contact us when you need theses”.

Elsewhere tat choluanvan.net, thuvienluanvan.com, luanvanonline.com and luanvan.net, you can find everything from essays to short and graduation reports to higher education theses. Prices start from 50,000 dong and go up to 200,000 dong. Discounts of 20-50 percent are offered to repeat purchasers.

Nguoi lao dong’s reporters called the mobile phone given on the website and were given simple instructions on how to pay for the work. It took only 10 minutes.

After ringing another number advertised on site they spoke to Tuan, he explained he provides a service of writing theses for students. The fee is two million dong for a university graduation thesis and five million dong for a masters thesis

Meanwhile ‘condauhoiem’ on 5giay.vn forum said: “No one would be silly enough to spend time to write a thesis nowadays. They have to take extra jobs to get money. Meanwhile, it takes one week only to purchase a thesis and edit it a little till it’s yours.”

Students have become experts at cutting and pasting from many sources. On occasions they may have to provide updated figures but that is where their research ends.

Thanh Nghia, a former student of the HCM City Economics University wrote on 5giay.vn that thanks to the purchased thesis, he successfully graduated university. “I had to use someone else’s thesis, it’s something which I once hated. However, with the thesis, you do what you can to pass.” he wrote.

Meanwhile, university lecturers admit it is very difficult to discover frauds. Phu Le Quyen, Lecturer of the Can Tho University said that it is almost impossible to find out which theses are copied from others, unless the theses exactly repeat the topics of the old theses or use out of date figures

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