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  • Newspaper

    Protest over lack of transparency in scholarships process

    Mauritania

    Press

    Wagdy Sawahel - University World News

    Students protested in front of the Mauritanian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research for concerns over transparency in awarding foreign scholarships. A wide range of medical and baccalaureate students were excluded while 90 out of 200 scholarships offered by the Moroccan Agency for International Cooperation have been retained. The lack of transparency in scholarship distribution aligns with broader corruption problems seen in African higher education systems, including nepotism and favoritism.

  • Newspaper

    Study calls for charter for the ethical use of AI in HE

    Egypt

    Press

    Wagdy Sawahe - University World News

    A study emphasizes the need for AI ethical charters in academic settings, aiming to ensure responsible and fair AI applications across research, teaching, and learning domains. Key voices highlighted the importance of such charters in promoting responsible AI use, transparency, accountability, and the mitigation of biases or ethical concerns. However, some academics underscored that implementing a charter alone might not suffice, emphasizing the need to integrate ethical values into foundational teaching.

  • Open government and educational quality for SDG 4: a look at Spain and Mexico

    Maria Fatima Pinho-De Oliveira

    1 comment

  • Civil society: A key voice in tackling corruption in education

    News

    When education is free of corruption, and a strong culture of transparency and accountability prevails, doors can open for millions of children and youth worldwide. They can access their right to quality education. To accelerate, how can the education sector join forces with civil society organizations? Education Out Loud grantees from Tanzania, Cambodia, and Zimbabwe explain how.

  • Newspaper

    A blueprint for transparency in school education

    India

    Press

    Varun Nallur - The Times of India

    The Karnataka Education Department has standardized and automatized the process of registering a new school. The norms of the new system involve uploading the relevant documents on the Education Department's website. The district office will check the documents within a specific timeframe and schools will then be inspected by electronic sampling. If all the conditions are met, a certificate will be issued. To increase transparency and guarantee quality control of schools, all processes on the Student Achievement Tracking System will also be made available online.

  • Exploring civil society in education: IIEP contributes to CIES 2023

    News

    During the week of 20 February, IIEP participated in the annual CIES conference to share the latest of our work on transparency and accountability measures in education. CIES 2023 was organized in a blended format around the theme: ‘Improving Education for a More Equitable World’.

  • Corruption: new insights

    This book is a collection of chapters on corruption. It highlights the importance of corruption, transparency, and accountability and ways to deal with it. Understanding the types of corruption is very important to know how to deal with it. Types of...

    Fahed-Sreih, Josiane

    IntechOpen, 2023

  • IIEP-UNESCO's activities for Education Out Loud grantees

    Basic page

    Join the upcoming Online Course for EOL Grantees on the Basics of Educational Planning and Management Dates: 18 March - 14 April Information note

  • Open government in education: learning from the "Auditores Juveniles" programme in Peru

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    This case study analyses how the "Youth Auditors" programme developed by the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Peru is implemented in schools as a mechanism for democratic participation and citizen oversight by regular basic education students in public schools. In addition, it is a tool that seeks to involve students in the improvement and monitoring of educational services.

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