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  • Newspaper

    Why a Code for Teachers Now?

    India

    Press

    - Economic and Political Weekly

    The National Council for Teacher Education has drafted a professional code for school teachers that aims to restore "dignity and integrity" to the vocation of teaching. Everyone would agree that the vocation needs more respect than it receives now, but enforcing ethics must come after and not before dealing with the many and deep-rooted ills that plague school education in the country.

  • Newspaper

    Education Minister urges new ethics code to end row over teaching Zionism

    Israel

    Press

    Or Kashti - Haartez

    Professors say that 'code of ethics' would destroy academia, intervention by outside body endangers academic freedom.

  • Newspaper

    Commissions lock horns over fake degrees

    Pakistan

    Press

    Ameen Amjad Khan - University World News

    The Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the Election Commission of Pakistan have locked horns over the verification of fake university degrees held by members of the federal and provincial assemblies, as the scandal spread to qualifications obtained at high school.

  • Newspaper

    I will not resign over fraud charge – Education Minister

    Kenya

    Press

    Sam Kiplagat - Daily Nation

    Nairobi — Higher Education minister has said he will not resign over a Sh96m fraud charge leveled against him in court.

  • Newspaper

    Teacher certificate forgeries overwhelm Government

    Uganda

    Press

    Patience Ahimbisibwe - The Monitor

    The Ministry of Education has said it is overwhelmed by the number of teachers who gained employment using forged documents. The Director of Basic Education said that a survey found that all districts in Eastern Uganda have several cases of forgeries. The same has been discovered in the Central region as investigations continue in other parts of the country.

  • Newspaper

    Massive graft' turns off Canadian aid tap

    Kenya

    Press

    - Daily Nation

    Kenya is no longer a country of focus for aid from Canada, the country's new High Commissioner has said, due to massive graft. He cited the scandal surrounding the Sh103 million embezzled from the Free Primary Education programme.

  • Newspaper

    Anti-corruption rules for private institutions

    India

    Press

    Alya Mishra - University World News

    In a bid to encourage transparency and stamp out corruption and fraud in universities, India's education ministry is preparing guidelines that will for the first time force private higher education institutions to make their accounts public.

  • Newspaper

    Flood drowns out fake degrees scandal

    Pakistan

    Press

    Zofeen T Ebrahim - University World News

    As Pakistan's Election Commission began its first hearings into parliamentarians' fake degrees last week some feared the scandal had been pushed out of the limelight by the devastating floods. Nonetheless, the degree debacle is straining the credibility of the country's higher education and election systems.

  • Newspaper

    Fraudulent diplomas exposed

    Cameroon

    Press

    - University World News

    The commission in Cameroon responsible for assessing higher education qualifications issued abroad has exposed more than 300 cases of fraudulent diplomas, reported Quotidien Mutations info of Yaoundé.

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