Corruption and education

The booklet deals with the issue of corruption in the education sector. It defines corruption in its various manifestation and magnitude. It refers to a number of factors, particularly the international conventions, various research works and various challenges in the education sector that have placed corruption in education higher on the agenda in the last decade. It reviews several tools to assess corrupt practices in the education sector such as Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys and report cards. It demonstrates that transparemcy and accountability in the education sector requires concerted action on three main fronts: developing transparent regulation systems, building management capacity, and promoting greater ownership of administrative and financial processes. The booklet concludes on the importance of changing attitudes, in particular by adopting codes of conduct, strengthening institutional capacities in some key areas such as management, promoting right to information of users and, more broadly, displaying strong political will at all levels of the system.