The Shadow Scholars

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 17, 2024

Original language

English

Production

Film4 Productions,BFI,Lammas Park,Field of Vision,Doc Society,White Teeth Films,BFI, Film4 Productions, Lammas Park, White Teeth Films, Field of Vision, Doc Society

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt33321994