- Barclay Littlewood
Barclay James Littlewood"GRO Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1837 – 1983"] (b. 1978 in
Huddersfield ) is a Britishentrepeneur who sells essays and other academic work over the internet to students in the UK, USA andWestern Europe .cite news |last=Sanghera |first=Sathnam |title=Want to know how to get rich? Me too |url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article2080548.ece |work=Timesonline.co.uk |publisher=The Times |date=2007-07-16 |accessdate=2008-01-18 ] After training as abarrister atGray's Inn , Littlewood set up his operation in 2003,cite web |url=http://www.ukessays.com/hello.html |title=Meet Us |accessdate=2008-01-18 |format=HTML |work=ukessays.com ] based inRavenshead ,Nottinghamshire .cite news |title=Essays company denies wrongdoing |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/5235032.stm |work=BBC Online |publisher=BBC |date=2006-08-01 |accessdate=2008-01-18 ] His companies claim to offer work of a quantifiable academic standard - 2:1 and 1st Class level - that is unpublished and scanned using universityplagiarism detection software. The sale of academic work by Littlewood's and other companies has proved controversial and there have been frequent accusations in the media, especially from universities, that Littlewood's businesses encourage plagiarism.cite web |url=http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/public-affairs/media/press-up.phtml?menu=pressup&sub=319 |title=Press-Up National Archive |accessdate=2008-01-18 |format=HTML |work=University of Nottingham ] cite news |last=Taylor |first=Matthew |coauthors=Butt, Riazat |title=Q: How do you make £1.6m a year and drive a Ferrari? A: Sell essays for £400 |url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1834073,00.html |work=Guardian Unlimited |publisher=The Guardian |date=2006-07-29 |accessdate=2008-01-18 ] Littlewood claims that the essays are sold to aid students with their research.Littlewood recently achieved a childhood dream and was ranked #71 in The Sunday Times Rich List for the Under 30 section.
References
[http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/specials/rich_list/article3799076.ece The Sunday Times Rich List 2008]
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