Barclay Littlewood

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UK young entrepreneur Barclay Littlewood (1978-) sells essays and other academic work over the internet to students in the UK, USA and Western Europe.

After training as a barrister at Gray's Inn, Littlewood set up his operation in 2001.

His companies claim to offer work of a quantifiable academic standard - 2:1 and 1st Class level - that is unpublished and scanned using university plagiarism detection software.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. Littlewood claims that the essays are sold to aid students with their research.

Barclay Littlewood's business, ukessays.com which is part of the Academic Answers Group (Registered at Companies House, No: 4964706), has been featured or discussed in the following press articles:

August 18, 2006: The Times Educational Supplement - Will firms who flog essays help to tackle the cheats?
August 7, 2006: Nottingham Evening Post - Selling of essays just condones cheating
August 4, 2006: The Guardian (Guardian Weekly, p.12) UK News: Week in Britain
August 4, 2006: The Times Educational Supplement - Burden of supervising all coursework to fall on staff
August 4, 2006: The Times Higher Education Supplement - High-flyers, lowdown cheats
August 4, 2006: Nottingham Evening Post - Degree cheats hard to detect
August 3, 2006: This is Oxfordshire - Students snap up web essays
August 3, 2006: This is Oxfordshire - Oxford students among 'worst culprits' for buying essays
August 2, 2006: Indo-Asian News Service - Online 'plagiarism' threatens quality of British degrees
August 2, 2006: Nottingham Evening Post - Essays for cash 'not cheating
August 2, 2006: Nottingham Evening Post - Essay website's warning
August 1, 2006: The Guardian (Leader Pages) - Varying degrees of plagiarism (Dr Paul Flewers)
August 1, 2006: The Guardian (Leader Pages) - Varying degrees of plagiarism (Michael Collins)
August 1, 2006: The Guardian - GCSE coursework to be curtailed to stop internet cheats
July 31, 2006: The Guardian (Leader Pages) - Reply Letters and emails: Septic Yanks
July 29, 2006: The Guardian - Universities call summit to combat plagiarism
April 8, 2005: The Times Higher Education Supplement - Bought essays fail to hit the mark
June 20, 2004: The Guardian - Universities go to war on exam cheats
April 2, 2004: Bristol United Press/Western Daily Press - Cheaters' charter for students and pupils

Littlewood has recently embarked on a new venture creating 'VideoSites' with his company The FutureFor.com, which places a TV-style presenter on a company's internet site to deliver their sales message in person to their customers.