Students 'working as prostitutes' - News in brief - Evening Standard
       

Students 'working as prostitutes'

Cambridge University chiefs have expressed concern after a student newspaper said "cash-strapped" undergraduates are working as prostitutes, strippers and escorts.

The report - in Cambridge University student newspaper Varsity - also said a "plethora" of undergraduates were raising money by selling essays.

Dr Rob Wallach, secretary of the university's senior tutors' committee, said: "I was very concerned to read the report. Senior tutors would want to do everything they could to give support to students well before any found themselves in such a situation."

And he said the university "strongly discouraged" students from selling essays.

Varsity said it spoke to one student who "admitted" spending her first year working as a £50-an-hour call girl.

"I did have a day job at the same time, but it just wasn't paying enough," she told the newspaper.

"I met other students who did it, too. Once you've done it, it is tempting. If you need quick, easy money, it's there."

Varsity said it found another "cash-strapped" undergraduate who collected "up to £100 per dance" while working as a stripper.

It said one escort service claimed to have more than 400 Cambridge students and graduates - charging as much as £300 a date - on its books.

And the newspaper said the practice of selling essays was "widespread" at the university.

News in brief in Pictures

Don't Miss
Victoria Coren: My obsession with children, five proposals a week and why David and I are no power couple

Victoria Coren

David Mitchell and I are no power couple
The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition preview party

Summer party

Stars at the The Royal Academy of Arts
London gets ready for the Diamond Jubilee - in pictures

Diamond Jubilee

London gets ready - in pictures
The Glamour Awards - stars turn on the style

Glamour Awards

Stars turn on the style
Duchess of Cambridge is pretty in pink at her first Buckingham Palace garden party

Garden party

Duchess of Cambridge is pretty in pink
FIRST review of Ridley Scott's latest sci-fi blockbuster Prometheus

First review

Is Ridley Scott's Prometheus any good?
Fair-weather goths

Fair-weather goths

The sultry shades of summer darks are coming out of the shadows
Dog save the Queen: Corgis surge in popularity

Dog save the Queen

Corgis surge in popularity
'He’s a better ex than he was a husband', says Boris Johnson's ex wife

A better ex than husband

We talk to Boris Johnson's ex wife
TV Baftas - in pictures

Best of the Baftas

Stars on the red, white and blue carpet