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Hello, I'm Ed Butler.

Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Coming up, the US University cheating scandal

and what it says about so-called top-level education everywhere.

I hope they treat this as a wake-up call

to rethink who they are allowing in to their institutions

and to give those from modest backgrounds without

cash a fair shot at the American dream. Plus, we hear from the essay Miller, a guy who writes

students' essays for them for a big fat profit. I write on my own at least one essay per week.

My major is politics, international relations. So for other areas like

business, finance, I just passed to subject writers. Universities and cheating are theme on

Business Daily from the BBC. 12 people made federal court appearances on Monday. They were

among the 50 accused of taking part

in the United States' largest ever college admissions bribery scandal. Experts say that rich and

powerful parents nowadays are frequently paying big bucks, either to have someone cheat on their

children's school exams or to pay off sports coaches to accept their kids onto teams, even though they have zero athletic skill.

The case this month, which allegedly involves high-profile TV actresses,

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