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  • Newspaper

    Georgia: Education minister determined to proceed with controversial reforms

    Georgia

    Press

    Jean-Christophe Peuch - Radio Free Europe

    Georgia: The Minister of education and science plans to reshuffle the education system of his country so as to reduce corruption in universities. One way to do this consists in standardising admission exams, under the supervision of a national organ only.

  • Newspaper

    Online university that gave cat diploma sued for fraud

    USA

    Press

    Mark Scolforo - The Associated Press

    An online university that supposedly granted a graduate degree in business to a pet cat was sued Monday for consumer fraud by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office.

  • Newspaper

    Romania wrestles with a plague: corruption

    Romania

    Press

    Judy Dempsey - International Herald Tribune

    Corruption and survival-level bribery may have been endemic in the communist era, but laws have been rewritten since 1989 in an effort to combat the problem. Nevertheless, the institutions are not strong enough to deal with corruption and still everybody pay bribes to doctors, teachers and to officials.

  • Newspaper

    Russia's big test

    Russian Federation

    Press

    Bryon MacWilliams - Chronicle of Higher Education

    The government has introduced a "Unified State Examination' test in the fight against corruption. The test will weed out weak teacher, improve the quality of instruction in schools and would ease the financial burden on parents of college students.

  • Newspaper

    Central Asia: buying ignorance – Kyrgyz, Kazakhs lead in education reform

    Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

    Press

    Antoine Blua - RFE-RL

    Kazakhstan et Kyrghyzstan : Students enter universities thanks to bribes. Reforms are ongoing.

  • Newspaper

    China arrests teachers over exam cheating allegations

    China

    Press

    - The Associated Press

    Corruption is a widespread problem; exam cheating is on the rise with technologies such as cell phones.

  • Newspaper

    La Salle formally charged for fraud.

    USA

    Press

    Elizabeth Tabak - The Jambar

    La Salle University, a religious degree-granting correspondence university, was shut down by the FBI for issuing falsely accredited degree in 1996. Due to the fraud, the students were notified personally or through advertisements that they could receive restitution from the over $ 10 million seized from La Salle. However, due to a bad computer system it is still possible that some students were left out.

  • Newspaper

    Researcher who was convicted in plague case is sentenced to 2 years in jail

    USA

    Press

    Katerine S. Mangan - Chronicle of Higher Education

    A former Texas Tech University researcher, who was convicted of mishandling harassment complaints and cheating the university out of its share of clinical-research money, was sentenced last week to two years in prison and a $15,000 fine.

  • Newspaper

    Schools levy millions in illegal fees

    China

    Press

    Josephine Ma - South China Morning Post

    An inspection of more than 100,000 schools has found that students have been charged 853 million yuan in illegal fees last year, Education Minister Zhou Ji said yesterday. He said 395 headmasters were among the 2,448 people fired or punished for imposing the fees. About 639 million yuan had been returned to parents after the inspections. Illegal charges for everything from school uniforms to field trips are rampant in many areas, prompting the government to launch a far-reaching clean-up campaign.

  • Newspaper

    Literacy campaigns against corruption and mismanagement

    China

    Press

    - China Daily

    In recent years, literature and broadcasts on a specific theme "campaigns against corruption and mismanagement" have become favourites for Chinese publishing houses and TV stations. Books on this subject frequently make best-seller lists while their TV adaptations are broadcast in prime time on channels of the national China Central Television (CCTV) network and provincial stations.

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