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  • Newspaper

    Teaching kids young in fighting corruption

    Philippines

    Press

    - Bayanihan

    The Department of Education has organized a campaign to urged parents of public and private school students to join the government in its fight against corruption. The department has launched a new Graft and Corruption Prevention Education Teaching Exemplars (GCPETE) which will be used by public school teachers to integrate anti-graft and corruption lessons in values education for elementary and schools.

  • Newspaper

    China to audit university heads to combat university corruption

    China

    Press

    - China View

    The Ministry of Education (MOE) has ordered the auditing of university heads from 2007. Analysts say the move is aimed at curbing corruption in universities after several embezzlement cases were uncovered in state universities recently. In 2006, former president of Tianjin University was removed from his position of deputy to the National People's Congress for his role in the school's loss of 12.8 million U.S. dollars.

  • Newspaper

    We need far more strict measures to stop cheats

    Uganda

    Press

    - The Monitor

    Results from last year's Uganda Certificate of Education exams show that 2,742 students have not obtained their exam due to cheating, and seven schools lost examination center status. Even in the employment sector many executives' qualifications have been found wanting least of all in professions as lofty as law. A judge had to resign for forging academic papers in the 1990s.

  • Newspaper

    131 teachers present fake certificates

    Nigeria

    Press

    Segun Awofadeji - This Day

    The State Security Service (SSS) in Gombe State has discovered that 131 of the 936 Universal Basic Education teachers recruited in the state recently presented fake NCE certificates for employment. A member of the syndicate has confessed that they printed and sold fake NCE certificates issued by the Federal College of Education.

  • Political cleaners: How women are the new anti-corruption force

    This paper explores the emergence of the myth of women's lesser propensity than men to engage in corrupt activity. It shows that the notion that women are more likely to behave with probity and integrity, is ironically the reverse of a myth that has...

    Goetz, Anne Marie

    Oxford, Blackwell publishing, 2007

  • On the economics of plagiarism

    Cheating and plagiarism can involve the transgression of intellectual property rights across many areas of life. When a direct financial benefit from such practices is identifiable, the opportunity to seek legal redress is available via civil court...

    Collins, Alan, Judge, Guy, Rickman, Neil

    2007

  • Corrupt schools, corrupt universities: what can be done?

    Rigged calls for tender, embezzlement of funds, illegal registration fees, academic fraud - there is no lack of empirical data illustrating the diverse forms that corruption can take in the education sector. Surveys suggest that fund leakage from...

    Hallak, Jacques, Poisson, Muriel

    Paris, UNESCO, 2007

  • Escolas corruptas, universidades corruptas: o que fazer? Resumo executivo

    Este livro apresenta as conclusões da pesquisa conduzida pelo IIPE no campo da ética e da corrupção em educação. Tem como base todas as atividades realizadas com marco de referência incluindo uma oficina preparatória, visitas de estudo, seminário...

    Hallak, Jacques, Poisson, Muriel

    Brasilia, UNESCO, 2007

  • The many faces of corruption: tracking vulnerabilities at the sector level

    Public opinion research shows that corruption is among the top concerns of people and leaders around the world, and is now part of all national and international development dialogues. Empirical research has raised public awareness worldwide of the...

    Campos, Edgardo J., Pradhan, Sanjay

    Washington D.C., World Bank, 2007

  • Fighting corruption in transition economies

    These reports are a review six countries' legal and institutional framework for fighting corruption, in accordance with the framework provided by the Anti-Corruption Network for Transition Economies, based at the OECD. The review examines: national...

    OECD

    Paris, OECD, 2007

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