The Shadow Scholars
2024, English. Directed by Eloise King.
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.
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- 1h 37m
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- English
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- 17 October 2024
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Who directed The Shadow Scholars?
The Shadow Scholars (2024) was directed by Eloise King.