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  • Newspaper

    Commissions lock horns over fake degrees

    Pakistan

    Press

    Ameen Amjad Khan - University World News

    The Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the Election Commission of Pakistan have locked horns over the verification of fake university degrees held by members of the federal and provincial assemblies, as the scandal spread to qualifications obtained at high school.

  • Newspaper

    Lecturer offered exam pass for sex

    Australia

    Press

    Bernard Lane - The Australian

    No es probable que el profesor universitario de Perth descubierto por amenazar a estudiantes chinas con suspenderlas si no mantenían relaciones sexuales con él sea el único académico que explote la vulnerabilidad de estudiantes atrapadas en el negocio de visados-por-títulos, según la Comisión contra el Crimen y Corrupción de Australia Occidental.

  • Newspaper

    Can education in Russia be reformed?

    Russian Federation

    Press

    Galina Masterova - Rossiyskaya Gazeta

    A good grade on the new SAT-style exams in Russia costs about 40,000 rubles. Could reform and crackdowns on corruption bring education back from the brink?

  • Newspaper

    Flood drowns out fake degrees scandal

    Pakistan

    Press

    Zofeen T Ebrahim - University World News

    As Pakistan's Election Commission began its first hearings into parliamentarians' fake degrees last week some feared the scandal had been pushed out of the limelight by the devastating floods. Nonetheless, the degree debacle is straining the credibility of the country's higher education and election systems.

  • Newspaper

    Fraudulent diplomas exposed

    Cameroon

    Press

    - University World News

    The commission in Cameroon responsible for assessing higher education qualifications issued abroad has exposed more than 300 cases of fraudulent diplomas, reported Quotidien Mutations info of Yaoundé.

  • Newspaper

    Honorary degrees "abused" – claim

    Kenya, Tanzania UR

    Press

    Gilbert Nganga - University World News

    Universities in two East African countries, Kenya and Tanzania, have come under fire for prolifically awarding honorary degrees – in some cases allegedly for money and in others in return for influence.

  • Newspaper

    To stop cheats, colleges learn their trickery

    USA

    Press

    Steve Johnson - New York Times

    The frontier in the battle to defeat student cheating may be here at the testing center of the University of Central Florida. As the eternal temptation of students to cheat has gone high-tech – not just on exams, but also by cutting and pasting from the Internet and sharing of homework online like music files – educators have responded with their own efforts to crack down.

  • Newspaper

    70% of pupils cheat during their schooling

    France

    Press

    Marie-Estelle Pech - Le Figaro

    Some 70.5% of French pupils admit to having cheated in school, according to a study on exam fraud conducted among 1,815 students in French multidisciplinary universities.

  • Newspaper

    Tokyo University to crack down on plagiarism in theses

    Japan

    Press

    - The Yomiuri Shimbun/Asia News Network

    The University of Tokyo will overhaul its thesis examination process and throw the book at anyone found to have plagiarized other people's work, according to the university President. The tighter screening and tougher penalties come after the university last month effectively dismissed a Turkish assistant professor and revoked his doctorate after finding he had falsified his academic credentials and plagiarized major portions of his doctoral thesis.

  • Newspaper

    Government plans to put degrees online, ease verification

    India

    Press

    Ravi , Pallavi and Sapna Krishnan, Singh, and Agarwal - The Wall Street Journal

    The government has appointed a task force to create a national database of academic qualifications to ensure confidentiality, authenticity, online verification and easy retrieval of degrees.

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