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Prior studies have focused on laws and regulations to combat corruption while overlooking the significant role of education in transforming the culture of corruption. Hence, this paper proposes a multiplatform framework for how higher education...

Corruption in higher education, particularly institutional corruption, is increasingly recognised as a critical issue, though its manifestations remain underexplored. This study uses the case of Austrian public universities to explore how indicator...

Government stakeholders in the Central Asian countries have largely acknowledged the existence of significant corruption risks – including bribery, embezzlement and bid rigging – in their secondary and tertiary education systems. These undermine the...

This study aims to enhance good governance and fraud prevention as key drivers for improving school performance. Using a mixed methods approach, the research collected quantitative data from 271 respondents through structured surveys, supported by...

This Guide aims at helping tertiary education institutions (TEIs) enhance their corruption prevention capabilities and uphold their high integrity standard. It provides a comprehensive set of governance and internal control measures which could help...

This report is prepared for the Department of Education as part of the implementation of the Secondary Education Support Program (SESP), with support from the Asian Development Bank. It analyzes the result of the endline data collection and...

With the continuous opening of China’s blockchain industry, blockchain technology is strongly sought after by all walks of life in China, and it has played an important role in fields that rely heavily on data accuracies, such as finance, auditing...

This paper is part of the background research for the Skeptic’s Guide to Open Government (2022 Edition). Suchi Pande developed it with guidance from the Accountability Research Center. This annotated bibliography identifies sources on how social...

This study developed as part of IIEP-UNESCO Research Project ‘Open Government: Learning From Experience describes how the school-community interface has strengthened in the form of school-based management structures in India. More specifically, it...

South Asia countries have massively increased pupil enrolment but schools remain substandard in terms of performance. Why? This essay proposes three reasons: (i) low taxing effort, (ii) weak governance, and (iii) professional corruption. I discuss...