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Irish universities "intimately engaged" with non-democratic regimes

10.06.2013 Ireland

Press

Joe Humphreys - Irish Times

Irish universities have been criticized for being linked to corrupt and unethical regimes. The former head of the Bahrain campus of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has commented that third-level Irish institutions are "intimately engaged with regimes that have human rights" questions to answer".
Loyalty as rent: corruption and politicization of Russian universities

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the changes that have taken place in the Russian higher education sector over the last two decades. Specifically, it analyses such phenomena as corruption and politicization of Russian universities...

Osipian, Ararat L.

2012
Public Expenditure Tracking Survey : Afghanistan - Education sector: Synthesis Report

The Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) looked at four components essential to the strengthening and development of the education sector in Afghanistan: 1) the payment of staff salaries; 2) the availability and use of an operations and...

World Bank

Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2011
Governance and quality guidelines in higher education: a review of governance arrangements and quality assurance guidelines

The need for good governance has dominated the debate on the effectiveness of higher education. The growing institutional autonomy and expansion of university missions have been accompanied by the emergence of governance arrangements and quality...

Hénard, Fabrice, Mitterle, Alexander

Paris, OECD, 2010
Investigating corruption in American higher education: the methodology

Higher education in the US may be characterized by the complexity and plurality of forms of organization, governance, management, financing, and property. Higher education institutions serve the industry. In this sense, community colleges are not...

Osipian, Ararat L.

2009
Feed from the Service: corruption and coercion in state university relations in Central Eurasia

Education in Central Eurasia has become one of the services most affected by corruption. Corruption in academia, including bribery, extortion, embezzlement, nepotism, fraud, cheating, and plagiarism, is reflected in the region's media and addressed...

Osipian, Ararat L.

2009
Steps and Strumbles

13.08.2007 Georgia

Press

Vasili Rukhadze - TOL-Open Education Society News

In Georgia, the Soviet legacy and the later collapse of state institutions produced an educational system plagued by corruption, nepotism, centralization and lack of teachers and professors. In addition, during the 90's, private low-quality schools with titles like "university" and "institute" sprang up. Controversies have been raised after colleges and universities have been closed or merged, and thousands of academic and administrative positions abolished.
A school loses accreditation

31.07.2005 USA

Press

- The Chronicle of Higher Education/ World Education News & Reviews

Compton community college lost its accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges in June. The regional accrediting body cited poor governance, lack of education plans, lack of student support services, and an inadequate administrative staff as reasons for revoking the schools accreditation. The school is now being taken over by the state, despite California's highly decentralized system.
Universities and industry: does the Lambert Code of Governance meet the requirements of good governance?

The Lambert Model Code of Governance proposes to institutionalise the dominance of governors from commercial and industrial organisations as core members of compact and effective boards controlling UK universities. It is the latest expression of a...

Buckland, Roger

2004
Paying for education: why not do it legally?

This paper provides a comparative analysis of what the author describes as "state owned highly corrupted universities" against private educational institutions in Ukraine to show that one of the most effective ways to fight corruption in the...

Grabovska, Larysa

Prague, Transparency International Czech Republic, IACC Council, 2001

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