This is not surprising. There was a dustup last year about how UK universities were looking the other way with non-English-speaking immigrant students having English-speaking people take their TOEIC (Test of English in International Communication) for them, so that they could stay at the college, and the colleges could get the state subsidies. As soon as ETS, the company that administers the test world-wide, found out about the scheme, they pulled the plug and worked with the authorities to catch the cheaters.
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