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  • Newspaper

    Rwanda: Transparency Rwanda gives education good marks

    Rwanda

    Press

    Jean-Christophe Nsanzimana - Rwanda Focus

    Transparency International Rwanda (TI-Rw) has released a report according to which the funds allocated to the 9-years basic education program (9YBE) have been used effectively. However, the report identified delays in disbursement and non-respect of ministerial order guidelines.

  • Newspaper

    Mozambique: Corruption threatens education in country

    Mozambique

    Press

    Richard Lee - All Africa

    According to an in-depth study entitled Effective Delivery of Public Services in the Education Sector, the progress achieved in Mozambique's education system in the last twenty years are is being threatened by diversion of funds, fraud concerning school admission and the awarding of building contracts, as well as by sexual extortion for good grades. The authors of the inquiry underline the urgent necessity to implement an anti-corruption legislation.

  • School funding formulas: review of main characteristics and impacts

    This study provides a literature review on school funding formulas across OECD countries. It looks at three salient questions from a comparative perspective: i) What kind of school formula funding schemes exist and how are they used, particularly for...

    Fazekas, Mihály

    Paris, OECD Publishing, 2012

  • Newspaper

    Government slams vice-chancellors and councils, warns of job losses

    Nigeria

    Press

    Tunde Fatunde - University World News

    The findings of visitation panels to federal universities in Nigeria have been released, along with a white paper responding to them. The reports have accused leaders and councils in most of the 26 universities of abusing autonomy, and some vice-chancellors may lose their jobs for deliberately flouting university statutes.

  • Challenges of right to information in South Asia

    The Right to Information (RTI) Act in South Asia has seen mixed results. This latest briefing from the Protifolon series considers the challenges and varying successes of implementing RTI in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.

    Institute of Informatics and Development (Bangladesh)

    2012

  • Newspaper

    Bogus colleges crackdown, 21 managers charged

    Kenya

    Press

    Gilbert Nganga - University World News

    Kenya has published new rules and put more than 200 institutions on notice in a crackdown that will see 21 managers facing criminal charges for operating illegal colleges, with 63 having been closed over the past year. The action comes in the wake of government plans to bankroll institutions in this key education sector, to help them cope with the rising demand for skills.

  • Strengthening integrity and fighting corruption in education: Serbia

    This first Integrity of Education Systems (INTES) country assessment was undertaken at the request of the Ministry of Education and Science of Serbia, following presentations of the assessment methodology to the Steering Group of the OECD Anti...

    Milovanovitch, Mihaylo, Bloem, Simone, Checchi, Francesco, Devine, Vera, Kalnins, Valts, McGuinness, Séamus, Poisson, Muriel, Roberts-Schweitzer, Eluned, Whitman, Ian

    Paris, OECD, 2012

  • Anti-corruption and integrity in German development policy: a strategy

    The present paper highlights the central role of anti-corruption in German development policy, and supersedes the BMZ Position Paper entitled “Fighting Corruption in German Development Cooperation”, which was published in 2002. The paper is a...

    Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany)

    Bonn, BMZ, 2012

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