A lot of students have found a new way to earn money. They provide a new kind of services which have not been seen in any other countries in the world: going to school in the name of clients.

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Things that the service providers have to do are going to class everyday, being present at roll-call, attending training courses, and sometimes doing tests on behalf of clients.

The service providers are mostly regular training students of universities, while people, who need to use the service are mostly in-service training students. Since in-service training students are always busy with their current works, they do not have time to go to class everyday. Many in-service training students register to follow training courses, because they want to have new bachelor degrees which allow them go get promotion in their job. Meanwhile, they really do not care much about the knowledge.

Both the demand and the supply are very high. Service providers – mostly students from small cities and provinces – like to provide the service in order to get money to fund their study. Meanwhile, in-service training students need to use the service, because they would rather spend their time on other works which can bring fat money, than going to class.

It is very easy to look for service providers nowadays. Sometimes, the service providers can be found right in classes. An in-service student of a school said he knows a “service provider” who goes everyday to his class. “If you have demand, please tell her, she will meet all the demands,” he said.

Especially, the service has been advertised publicly, though the behaviour of going to class in other people’s name is considered as illegal. If someone enters a school, he will receive a lot of leaflets, where he can find the contact addresses of “service providers” and the information about how to find them. All the service providers promise to give “high quality” service to their clients, i.e. that the service providers will not miss any lessons, while lecturers will not discover that the people who go to class everyday are just imposters.

The service has been even advertised on internet. If accessing to some websites forum.clip.vn, www.hocthue.net, www.hvtc.vn, www.info.vn and chutin.vn, such information about the service can be easily found.

“You are a busy person? You have to spend your time on family’s works, friends’ parties, and you cannot go to class every day? Then you need someone, who, on behalf of you, go to class everyday and do tests for you. We can satisfy your demand. Call us 0988.85.22.xx (Mr. Dinh),” an advertisement piece reads.

Especially, the service provider stressed that when using the service, people will have the opportunity to help poor students overcome difficulties and keep their study.

A lot of students have got familiar to a website specializing in providing this kind of service at Hocthue.net. The websites describes itself as the biggest website in this field.

Tien phong’s reporters called 0974419xxx, a phone number given on the website, and met a student, V, who said he is studying at the Hanoi University of Industry. V said the service fee is about 40-50,000 dong per lesson.

Source: Tien phong