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  • Newspaper

    Overseas overwhelmed

    UK

    Press

    - Higher Edge

    Unqualified international students use fraudulent documents to gain admission to universities. The Times Higher Education Supplement reported that an agent had placed "hundreds" of Chinese students in British universities.

  • Education and corruption

    This paper will draw on standard international definitions of 'corruption' and apply them to the education sector. It will define corruption in education, explain why it is important, and describe various types of corruption and their causes...

    Heyneman, Stephen P.

    2004

  • Newspaper

    Degrees for sale: corruption scandal engulfs Russia's leading university

    Russian Federation

    Press

    - The Independent UK

    The rector of the Moscow State University of Culture and the Arts is alleged to have handed out 130 "false" law degrees between 2001 and 2004 in exchange for bribes worth RUR300,000. Estimates of how much students pay teachers and academics in bribes every year range from RUR250m to RUR300m.

  • Newspaper

    Slow corruption that threatens our universities

    UK

    Press

    Martin Bright - The Observer

    It is claimed that a "slow corruption" is being installed as universities are struggling for funds. Degrees are for sale and in one university a professor at a former polytechnic was found to have ordered his staff to "minimise" the number of failing students by marking up those at risk of failing because there has been a drop in applications.

  • Newspaper

    Central Asia: buying ignorance – Corruption in education widespread, corrosive

    Tajikistan

    Press

    Kathleen Moore - RFE/RL

    A university student describes how she bought a good grade.

  • Newspaper

    China arrests teachers over exam cheating allegations

    China

    Press

    - The Associated Press

    Corruption is a widespread problem; exam cheating is on the rise with technologies such as cell phones.

  • Newspaper

    Thailand embroiled in Exam Scandal

    Thailand

    Press

    Martha Ann Overland - Chronicle of Higher Education

    Senior government officials involved in a scandal over whether university entrance examinations were leaked.

  • Newspaper

    NCAA penalizes Cal State at Northridge for academic fraud

    USA

    Press

    Welch Suggs - Chronicle of Higher Education

    California State University back on probation: a basketball coach tries to arrange for a player to receive credit for courses he never took.

  • Newspaper

    La Salle formally charged for fraud.

    USA

    Press

    Elizabeth Tabak - The Jambar

    La Salle University, a religious degree-granting correspondence university, was shut down by the FBI for issuing falsely accredited degree in 1996. Due to the fraud, the students were notified personally or through advertisements that they could receive restitution from the over $ 10 million seized from La Salle. However, due to a bad computer system it is still possible that some students were left out.

  • Newspaper

    Teachers receive $30,000 in raises for fake degrees

    Liberia

    Press

    - CNN

    A school may demand that six teachers repay nearly $ 30,000 in pay raises they received after obtaining fake degrees from an online school.

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