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  • Newspaper

    I will not resign over fraud charge – Education Minister

    Kenya

    Press

    Sam Kiplagat - Daily Nation

    Nairobi — Higher Education minister has said he will not resign over a Sh96m fraud charge leveled against him in court.

  • Newspaper

    Teacher certificate forgeries overwhelm Government

    Uganda

    Press

    Patience Ahimbisibwe - The Monitor

    The Ministry of Education has said it is overwhelmed by the number of teachers who gained employment using forged documents. The Director of Basic Education said that a survey found that all districts in Eastern Uganda have several cases of forgeries. The same has been discovered in the Central region as investigations continue in other parts of the country.

  • Newspaper

    Anti-corruption rules for private institutions

    India

    Press

    Alya Mishra - University World News

    In a bid to encourage transparency and stamp out corruption and fraud in universities, India's education ministry is preparing guidelines that will for the first time force private higher education institutions to make their accounts public.

  • Newspaper

    Probe into university payments embarrassing

    Ireland

    Press

    John Walshe - University World News

    Unauthorized payments of allowances, bonuses and enhanced pensions for some university staff over several years have been revealed in a report from Ireland's public spending watchdog, the Comptroller and Auditor General.

  • 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

    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

    Bogus military school closed

    China

    Press

    Meng Jing - China Daily

    A bugle call rings out at Zhonglian Judicial College at 1:30 pm, two weeks after the head of the privately funded school was arrested. Anxious students and worried parents insist on staying in the school, located in Fangshan district, after the institute was announced illegal by the Fangshan commission of education on 10 May.

  • Newspaper

    Causes of corruption concerning girls in schools

    Côte d'Ivoire

    Press

    Ablan Anne-Marie, N'Dasso Flore Ben-Bac, Kouakou Armand, Konan Ettien, Bende - Rocare

    Compared to boys, girls are more exposed to corrupt practices, especially girls within the 15-19 age group. Eradicating the phenomenon through the increase of public awareness and the creation of units to fight corruption in schools is the challenge facing educational authorities.

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    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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