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  • Newspaper

    Dean may face data fraud charges

    Netherlands

    Press

    Jan Petter Myklebust - University World News

    A Tilburg University inquiry has recommended that details of forgery of documents and fraud committed by a leading social psychologist should be passed to the Dutch public prosecution service.

  • Newspaper

    University of Wales abolished after visa scandal

    UK

    Press

    Julie Henry - The Telegraph

    The University of Wales will cease to exist after mounting a series of damaging revelations. An investigation revealed last week that overseas students at Rayat London College, in Hounslow, were sold diploma exam answers in advance of taking the test.

  • Newspaper

    NUC Lists 51 fake universities

    Nigeria

    Press

    Martin Paul - All Africa

    The number of fake universities operating in the country has risen from 44 to 51 National Universities Commission (NUC) has alerted. According to the weekly news bulletin of NUC, eight of the universities had been taken to court, while some are currently undergoing investigations.

  • Newspaper

    For-profit college group sued as U.S. lays out wide fraud

    USA

    Press

    Tamar Lewin - The New York Times

    The Department of Justice and four states filed a multibillion-dollar fraud suit against the Education Management Corporation, the nation's second-largest for-profit college company, charging that it was not eligible for the $11 billion in state and federal financial aid it had received from July 2003 through June 2011.

  • Newspaper

    Probe into Scottish university visa scam

    UK

    Press

    Kate Devlin - The Herald

    The Immigration Minister admitted yesterday there may be widespread abuses of a visa scheme that provides foreign students with the chance to enrol at UK institutions after irregularities were found at a Scottish university.

  • Newspaper

    Investigation into national exam "scam"

    Türkiye

    Press

    Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

    Turkish prosecutors are investigating allegations of possible cheating and favouritism in the annual university entrance exam sat by 1.7 million students on 27 March. Suspicions were raised this week after a lawyer discovered a formula for correct answers for multiple-choice maths questions on one exam.

  • Newspaper

    India's Education Ministry will review its corruption charges against 44 universities

    India

    Press

    - The Chronicle of Higher Education

    India's education ministry appears to have hit a snag in its anticorruption campaign. The Supreme Court ordered the federal government to conduct a review of 44 "deemed universities" that the ministry had stripped of university status last February.

  • Diploma and accreditation mills: exposing academic credential abuse

    This report published by Verifile Limited in January 2010 exposes a multi-billion dollar international fake diploma fraud. Alarmingly, the US was found to be the world's fake college capital. The Report indicates that 810 diploma mills have already...

    Ben Cohen, Eyal, Winch, Rachel

    Bedford, Verifile Limited, 2011

  • Annual report 2011

    In 2011 law students were approximately three times more likely to bring a complaint to the OIA than the average for students studying other subjects in England and Wales. Other subjects more likely to elicit student complaints included Medicine and...

    Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (UK)

    Reading (UK), OIA, 2011

  • 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.

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