The Shadow Scholars

0|2024|1h 37m| EN

Overview: 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.

Genres: Documentary

Director: Eloise King

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Production Companies:

BFI

Film4 Productions

Lammas Park

White Teeth Films

Field of Vision