

But PhD students are less serious a problem, if the academics insist on interviewing the applicant before making an offer and following their progress step by step. This affects not only our undergraduate and taught master students, but also our PhD applicants. Some of them may indeed be current or retired university professors.) (Some of these ghostwriters are highly competent and some of their works are easily publishable in internationally reputable academic journals.

For example, the submitted work of a past student of mine appeared to have a less than 5% similarity index, yet had turned out to be not a product of their own, and appeared highly likely to have been mass produced by one ghostwriter with small twists here and there for each client.

Such activities have increased significantly over the past ten years or so as a result of rapid university expansion, seriously complicating the work of the university teaching professionals. I remember, not too long ago, I saw an ad here for posts that help students write assignments. This isn't the first time that companies advertise on LinkedIn for similar posts. "Winland Academy, which specialises in helping Chinese students to study in the UK, put an advert for a 'university application writer' on LinkedIn." Only our effort to better ourselves and help those around us in the process of building something tangible or intangible will follow us into eternity. Waking up the kindness sleeping in our heart will compensate for the lack of empathy, nevertheless.Ī safe distance, time and space, will allow the above two to work out their natural courses.Įverything we build on this planet is ephemeral. Without walking in the other person's shoes, one will never grasp fully how their toes feel. It takes continuous reflection upon one's own actions, reactions, and thoughts.īeing empathetic is harder.
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".EI (emotional intelligence) will become more important in the years ahead because of one continuing development - as automation and AI see more manual or routine jobs replaced by machines, jobs involving interpersonal skills will be the dominant jobs of the future."
