Council of Europe's Call for Best Practices in Promoting Academic Integrity during COVID-19
29.04.2021 | News
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The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the entire higher education sector causing closures and interruption of classroom-based teaching and learning, and such a sudden shift to online education may have had further implications for academic integrity. Promoting academic integrity remains fundamental to the credibility of higher education institutions and helps to protect the quality of higher education degrees.

Remote cheating leads to ‘corona degrees’ in Greece
In the press
18.04.2021
Greece
Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP - Study International
Examination standards are virtually impossible to reinforce in a distance-learning environment where hundreds of students are simultaneously online. The Dean of the University of Crete’s literature department reports that it is easy for students to Google exam answers even under the eye of supervisors on camera. A 20- year-old student said that one of her friends gave 100 euros to a teacher to sit for her math exam. Similarly, a 20-year-old psychology student took exams on behalf of 2 of her friends and nobody realized.
Open school data
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Open school data constitutes a powerful tool to promote citizen control over the transfer and use of financial, material and human resources. The publication of such data allows users of the system to better know their rights and to stand up for them.
Open school data: what planners need to know
Publication
Muriel Poisson

The number of countries providing the general public with access to educational data has grown rapidly over the past decade, encouraged by new information technologies and citizens’ growing pressure for more transparency.

2021
Government suspends fraudulent Kwekwe High School teacher
In the press
06.04.2021
Zimbabwe
Michael Magoronga - Chronicle
Two Kwekwe High School teachers have been suspended after they allegedly asked parents for money to secure Form One places for their children. The matter only became public on the school's opening day, when the school authorities discovered that there was an extra class of 30 students, prompting the headmaster to launch an investigation.