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  • Newspaper

    No easy solutions to university sex-for-marks phenomenon

    Niger

    Press

    Tunde Fatunde - University World News

    A recent sex-for-marks scandal involving a senior academic and a postgraduate student has highlighted not only the prevalence of the problem, but the difficulty in addressing it in Nigerian universities. In an official response to the issue, the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said any academic staff member found guilty of sexual harassment, after undergoing due process, should be made to face the wrath of the law. He also stated that those found guilty would enter the union’s Book of Dishonour.

  • Newspaper

    Sex-for-marks scandal: Student appears before OAU Panel

    Nigeria

    Press

    - This Day

    A postgraduate student in the Business Administration Faculty, who made an audio recording of a lecturer of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, demanding five sessions of sex in order to increase her marks, appeared Tuesday before the investigative committee set up by the university. Her lawyer expressed optimism that the outcome of the investigative panel would serve as a lesson to other predatory lecturers.

  • Newspaper

    Female students ‘too scared’ to report sexual harassment

    Kenya

    Press

    Christabel Ligami - University World News

    When a third-year bachelor of arts student at the University of Nairobi, was unable to write her final examination due to illness, her lecturer agreed to let her retake the exam and told her to meet him in his office in the evening to discuss the details. Instead of receiving the information she needed, he informed her that there was no need for her to take the examination and forced her to have sex with him. A 2016 study on sexual harassment among university students at Kenya’s University of Eldoret found that more than 50% of students had encountered sexual harassment and there were no policies to address the issue.

  • Newspaper

    Campaign to halt widespread university corruption

    Cameroon

    Press

    - University World News

    An awareness campaign against widespread corruption in universities, which includes bribery by students to get good results, false diplomas and sex to gain promotion, has been launched by CONAC, the national anti-corruption commission. According to a source “The main kind of corruption here is the sale of grades by certain teachers. Students whose work is bad get teachers or education officials to improve their grades”. CONAC found instances of nepotism, counterfeiting of results, false diplomas, promotions in return for sex, and abuse of power.

  • Newspaper

    Name and shame sex for marks lecturers'

    South Africa

    Press

    Barbara Cole - IOL News

    Lecherous lecturers who demand sex in return for good marks could be named and shamed if students attending the HEAids National Youth Conference Durban conference. The UN representative said that power relations at campuses proved to be a “very big issue”, particularly the role of lecturers and sex for marks. The students attending one of the sessions came up with an “interesting concept” - to identify the offending lecturers on an application “grey list” so that their names would be known.

  • Keeping Girls At School Program: Impact Evaluation

    The Keeping Girls At School (KGAS) program is an initiative of CARE Rwanda aimed at reducing the number of girls who drop out of secondary school and increasing the share of girls that transit from lower to upper secondary education. CARE Rwanda and...

    Laterite Ltd, 2015

  • Combatting corruption in education on a global front

    Muriel Poisson

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  • Newspaper

    Causes of corruption concerning girls in schools

    Côte d'Ivoire

    Press

    Ablan Anne-Marie, N'Dasso Flore Ben-Bac, Kouakou Armand, Konan Ettien, Bende - Rocare

    Compared to boys, girls are more exposed to corrupt practices, especially girls within the 15-19 age group. Eradicating the phenomenon through the increase of public awareness and the creation of units to fight corruption in schools is the challenge facing educational authorities.

  • Causes de la corruption chez les filles à l'école

    En Côte d'Ivoire, les actions de lutte contre la corruption visent plus la dénonciation et la sensibilisation des acteurs en général. Mais les études sur la perception et les pratiques corruptrices en milieu scolaire restent rares. Cette contribution...

    Ettien Ablan, Anne-Marie, Bendé N'Dasso, Flore Ben-Bac, Konan Kouakou, Armand

    2010

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