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  • Newspaper

    World Bank corruption may top $100Bn: Lugar

    Press

    - The Financial Express

    The chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee says World Bank corruption may exceed $100 billion; the institution has reacted, but more must be done.

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    Thailand embroiled in Exam Scandal

    Thailand

    Press

    Martha Ann Overland - Chronicle of Higher Education

    Senior government officials involved in a scandal over whether university entrance examinations were leaked.

  • Newspaper

    NCAA penalizes Cal State at Northridge for academic fraud

    USA

    Press

    Welch Suggs - Chronicle of Higher Education

    California State University back on probation: a basketball coach tries to arrange for a player to receive credit for courses he never took.

  • 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.

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    Teachers receive $30,000 in raises for fake degrees

    Liberia

    Press

    - CNN

    A school may demand that six teachers repay nearly $ 30,000 in pay raises they received after obtaining fake degrees from an online school.

  • Newspaper

    Consumer alert : Top 10 signs online diploma mills and degree mills

    Press

    Vicky Phillips - GetEducated.com

    Las fábricas de diplomas son universidades fantasmas que venden certificados académicos en lugar de proporcionar experiencia educativa. Cuando la Web GetEducated empezó a hacer un listado de los centros de formación a distancia en 1989, había menos de 50 centros abiertos al público. Hoy en día existen más de 750. GetEducated ha redactado una lista de 10 'señales de alarma' que ayuden a evitar adquirir un diploma universitario falso.

  • 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

    Red-faced in the desert

    USA

    Press

    Jamilah Evelyn - Chronicle of Higher Education

    The president of Nevada's largest college is demoted amid allegations of nepotism, harassment, and petty corruption.

  • Newspaper

    The corruption and indifference of teachers undermine schools

    Cameroon

    Press

    Sylvestre Tetchiada - IPS News Agency

    A wave of corruption sweeps the system, from secondary to higher education. Schools also suffer from "teacher drain".

  • Newspaper

    Cheating widespread on Afghanistan exams

    Afghanistan

    Press

    Daniel Del Castillo - Chronicle of HE

    Results for university admission exams are cancelles for more than 6,000 students from Kabul and its region; the answers had been revealed and corruption affected the exam process.

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