A moral question - writing assignments for cash

A client is paying a friend a lot of cash to write assignments for them for a post-graduate qualification. A third party has pointed out that this is immoral but I don't see it. My take is the client's usage of what my friend provides is immoral not my friend's production.comments?

It's actually for the post-graduate diploma that makes you a fellow of the IPD (institute of personal management). The person doing the qualification is already an experienced HR professional and membership of the IPD would look nice on his CV.My friend (like myself) is qualified to PhD level but not in HRM, I've seen the assignments and they are pretty easy, you could knock them out in a day.

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This kind of fraud inherently wastes the time of the instructor, and the institution. Time is something very valuable... at least to me it is... and having it wasted by someone else is not cool.

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I don't really understand this objection - they still get the cash, the student still turns up - how is time wasted?

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Okay, maybe that depends on the attitude of the teacher. But from my own perspective, being a teacher doesn't involve getting paid to simply slap a grade on whatever is placed before my face. That's about the only way of thinking which would mean my time wasn't wasted.

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Ah it's partly a cultural thing - I worked in academia as a researcher, teaching is consider a waste of time FULL-STOP. It's something that you have to do and gets in the way of your research.