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Higher education corruption is an emerging sub-field of research that has yet to develop its terminological apparatus and own specific research methodologies. The interdisciplinary nature of this sub-field predetermines its dependency on other well...

As part of the preparation of a joint evaluation of anti-corruption efforts, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Danish International Development Assistance (Danida), the Swedish Agency for Development Evaluation (SADEV), the Swedish International...

Are scientists publishing more duplicate papers? An automated search of seven million biomedical abstracts suggests that they are, report Mounir Errami and Harold Garner. The concern here is with the three major sins of modern publishing: duplication...

In the past decade, accountability has become a major concern in most parts of the world. Governments, parliaments and society at large are increasingly asking universities to justify the use of public resources and account more thoroughly for their...

The European Science Foundation collected information from its Member Organisations and other relevant bodies, and this resulting report presents the policies, approaches and practices to foster good scientific practice found in several European...

In Finland, The National Advisory Board on Research Ethics published a document "Good scientific practice and procedures for handling misconduct and fraud in science" in 2002. All universities have agreed to follow the exact procedures defined in the...

L'idée qu'au-delà de l'atteinte portée au pacte social et aux libertés fondamentales, la corruption est une violence faite a des personnes, physiques ou morales, qui subissent de fait un préjudice et qui ont droit à obtenir réparation est une idée...

The Education Support Program (ESP) has published Education in a Hidden Marketplace: Monitoring of Private Tutoring, the result of the Monitoring Private Tutoring Project, initiated by ESP in close cooperation with the Network of Education Policy...

The 2006 Global corruption report focuses on corruption and health. It includes expert reports on: the risks of corruption in different health care systems; the scale of the problem: from high-level corruption in Costa Rica to counterfeit medicines...

Rapidly rising attention to the quality of governance in developing countries is driving explosive growth in the use of governance indicators by international investors, donors of official development assistance, development analysts and academics...