On July 27, 2019, New University in Exile Consortium Scholar, Ararat Osipian, published “The Rise and Rise of Ghost-Written Dissertations” in University World News: The Global Window on Higher Education. His piece describes educational corruption in Ukraine, highlighting, “an entire market that offers ghost-written dissertations to order.” Read the full article here.
Ararat Osipian is the Alexander Mirtchev visiting professor and scholar at the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, and fellow of the Institute of International Education, USA. He is the author of, most recently, “Let me write a dissertation for you: The micro-level cost-benefit approach to doctoral degree fraud”, published in Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019.