How to hold autonomous schools and school governing boards accountable for their decisions and performance has become a particularly pressing question for central governments in many OECD countries. Increasing complexity in education systems has led...

The International Association of Universities and the Magna Charta Observatory have jointly drawn up the following Guidelines for an Institutional Code of Ethics in Higher Education (hereafter Guidelines) to encourage the adoption of comprehensive...

Using the 2007 household survey data collected by Transparency International Bangladesh, we examine corruption in the education sector in Bangladesh. Our main findings are (i) the incidence of corruption and the amount of bribe increase with the...

This Manual aims to provide teachers with a number of tools they need in order to introduce learning issues related to the students’ education against corruption, as one of the negative phenomena that hinder economic and social development of a...

Freedom of information laws and the obligation to provide explanations assure citizens of the right to obtain information as well as rationales from public authorities about their decisions. Little has been written about intra-organizational...

Plagiarism is a phenomenon that existed in the past, exists today and will exist in the future. Slovakia with its population of 5.4 million is confronted with theses and dissertation plagiarism like other countries. The rapid growth in the number of...

After the collapse of communism a problematic development took place in nearly all former Soviet states. As a consequence of social uncertainties as well as weak and unstructured formal institutional settings that existed, during the transition...

The concordat sets out five commitments that will provide assurances to government, the wider public and the international community that research in the UK continues to be underpinned by the highest standards of rigour and integrity. Developed in...

This study provides a literature review on school funding formulas across OECD countries. It looks at three salient questions from a comparative perspective: i) What kind of school formula funding schemes exist and how are they used, particularly for...

Die HRK hat in der Vergangenheit mehrere Empfehlungen zur Promotion verabschiedet und dabei grundsätzliche Feststellungen getroffen und aktuelle Entwicklungen aufgegriffen (vgl. Zum Promotionsstudium 1996, Zur Organisation des Promotionsstudiums 2003...