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Rethinking accountability in education: how should who hold whom accountable for what?

According to this paper, our concept of educational accountability is a vestige of the industrial model of education: At age five, the raw materials (i.e. the children) are delivered to the plant door by their parents; after thirteen years, they...

Behn, Robert D.

Massachusetts, Harvard University, 2003
The poor speak up: 17 stories of corruption

This book is the result of an action research project carried out by the Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia and the World Bank. It sets out to understand from the poor the ways in which corruption intersects with their lives and how it...

Hardjono, Ratih, Teggemann, Stefanie

Jakarta, Partnership for Governance Reform, 2003
Reports of Bribe-taking at Russian Federation Universities have increased

17.04.2002 Russian Federation

Press

Bryon Mac Williams - Chronicle of Higher Education

It is estimated that Russian students and their parents annually spend between $2 billion and $ 5 billion in bribes. And it costs between $ 10 000 and $ 15 000 in bribes to gain acceptance into well-regarded institutions of higher learning in Moscow.
Parents and financial advisers charged with federal student-aid fraud

29.03.2001 USA

Press

Ben Gose and Jeffrey R. Young - Chronicle of Higher Education

Eighteen parents and seven financial-aid advisers in the Chicago area have been charged with federal student-aid fraud for allegedly obtaining more than $2.6-million in funds by purposefully underreporting their income on financial-aid applications. Two of the aid advisers worked at colleges.
Corruption in education in Belarus

This document is Olia Yatskevich's presentation at the Students' Forum "Can we educate the youth without the involvement of corruption?" at the tenth IACC. Corruption, especially bribery, is a widespread phenomenon in Belarusian universities. One...

Yatskevich, Olia

Prague, Transparency International Czech Republic; IACC Council, 2001
Accountability in primary education: CIET social audits: Costa Rica, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Uganda

Asked if they like primary school, the children who manage to get there usually say "yes". But their eyes darken as they start to talk about the "daily demand for money for invisible things" in exchange for an education.CIET social audits of Primary...

New York, CIET, 2001