"A fascinating dissection of morals and human vulnerabilities... A deeply compassionate explanation of these writers and their positions... Its goal is not to excuse or even explain the industry; it's to understand and shed light on the people who do the work."
— The Indiependent
It is estimated that over 37 million higher education students across the Western world have benefited from contracting ghost-writers to pen their academic papers, which they then pass off as their own work. In Nairobi, roughly 40,000 highly-educated yet under-employed Kenyan scholars meet that constant demand in order to make ends meet.
The Shadow Scholars presents Oxford professor Patricia Kingori's efforts to uncover this multi-billion global enterprise, known as "contract cheating," and its impacts on education and society. The film raises the troubling question: when students who haven't done the work become the next generation of doctors, lawyers, politicians, and other workers critical to functioning societies, what is the actual social value of a university degree?
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