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The General Secretary of the Republican Turkish Party (CTP) highlighted the significance of the ongoing investigation into a fake diploma scandal and its implications for corruption within senior bureaucratic and political circles. He pledges the CTP's commitment to monitoring the process and work towards enhancing the effectiveness of regulatory bodies like the Higher Education Planning, Evaluation, Accreditation and Coordination Council YÖDAK to improve governance and accountability in higher education institutions.

The video showcases a platform comprising of civil society organizations (CSOs) based in North Macedonia. These organizations collaborate to combat corruption and promote good governance. The platform aims to develop material resources to improve the knowledge of the citizens. CSOs can contribute to address many societal challenges, by engaging in policy debates, proposing innovative, sustainable, and inclusive solutions, and monitoring the results of reform processes at beneficiary, regional and local level.

The 7,500 academies in England educate nearly 4 million pupils. Thousands of pupils are being failed by a system that fails to give academy trusts proper oversight. The public accounts committee reported that governance of academy trusts must be strengthened and that the Department for Education’s oversight must be more rigorous. MPs have called for new sanctions to deter and punish malpractice after hearing that the former head of Durand Academy in south London was paid an £850,000 severance package.

The project "Cost of the School Day" aims to reduce the disadvantage experienced by poorer families in meeting the cost of the school day. Thoughout 2018, the project used "participatory budgeting" to allow local people to decide how money should be spent in 10 primary schools in three priority areas, namely Mayfiled, Woodburn, and Gorebridge. 
 

University officials have been accused of misleading an Oireachtas committee over the way they run their financial affairs. Senior officials from colleges including University of Limerick, DIT and University College Cork appeared before the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee on Thursday to answer allegations over unauthorised severance packages, conflicts of interest and poor corporate governance. In one episode, officials at the university of Limerik paid severance packages to two staff due to ‘employment relationships breaking down’, but then went on to re-employ both individuals as consultants.