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  • Newspaper

    DepEd launches “Paaralang Bukas” transparency portal for education data

    Philippines

    Press

    Bella Cariaso - The Philippine Star

    The Philippine Department of Education launched the Paaralang Bukas Dashboard, an open data portal providing public access to school-level information on performance, resources, and needs. Designed to enhance transparency and accountability, the initiative empowers parents, teachers, and local governments to monitor education investments and outcomes.

  • Newspaper

    NERD Program tackles certificate racketeering and academic fraud in Nigeria

    Nigeria

    Press

    Akure Adewale Momoh - The Guardian Nigeria

    The Ondo State Government praised the Federal Government’s launch of the Nigeria Education Repository and Databank (NERD), calling it a landmark reform against certificate racketeering and academic fraud. NERD digitizes Nigeria’s academic output and standardized credential verification. It also introduces the National Publication Index to enhance academic integrity, and indigenous knowledge governance.

  • Newspaper

    Big data research poses new challenges to ethics committees

    South Africa

    Press

    Nezerith Cengiz, Siti Kabanda, Tonya Esterhuizen and Keymanthri Moodley - University World News

    A new study highlights the necessity of training Research Ethics Committees (RECs) in Sub-Saharan Africa to manage the ethical and legal complexities inherent in data-intense research, particularly concerning data protection and sharing. Findings reveal a lack of awareness among REC members regarding existing laws at the national level, possibly resulting in research data crossing borders without appropriate agreements or permits. Establishing transparent and standardized data governance could foster shared ethical values and ensure responsible big data research practices across the subcontinent.

  • Newspaper

    Governments harm children’s rights in online learning

    International

    Press

    Human Rights Watch - Human Rights Watch

    A Human Rights Watch report revealed that during the Covid-19 school closures, governments in 49 of the world's most populous countries violated children's rights by approving and enabling the widespread adoption of EdTech products. Children have been forced to pay for their learning at the cost of their rights to privacy and access to information. Of the 164 EdTech products examined, 146 (89%) monitored children's personal data secretly and without the consent of children or their parents, both inside and outside their virtual classrooms and on the internet.

  • Newspaper

    Teaching corruption subject at primary school level will eradicate corruption

    Tanzania UR

    Press

    Jamilah Khaji - The Citizen

    Corruption threatens good governance, sustainable development, democratic process and fair business environment. Young Citizen reporter caught students from Mapambano Tuition Center expressing their views in a debate whose motion is: teaching corruption subject from primary school level will help to eradicate corruption.

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