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  • Enhancing efforts to prevent fraud in higher education

    In the early 1990s, U.S. Attorney General, Janet Reno, made health care fraud a priority in the U.S. department of Justice. Thereafter in 1997, she broadened the Department's initiative to encompass all areas of fraud prevention. As a result of these...

    Coggins, P.

    2000

  • Local capture and the political economy of school financing

    This paper describes and analyses the results of an innovative survey tool to gauge the extent to which public resources actually filter down to the intended end-user. It focuses on one of the key public programs in education in Uganda, a per student...

    Reinikka, Ritva, Svensson, Jakob

    Washington D.C., World Bank, 2002

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    Education Department seeks to ease rules on student aid

    USA

    Press

    Anne Marie Borrego, Stephen Burd and Dan Carnevalle - Chronicle of Higher Education

    The U.S. Education Department last week proposed new rules that would loosen a ban on incentive compensation for college recruiters and get rid of a financial-aid regulation. The proposal to eliminate the 12-hour rule follows years of debate. Distance-education providers have pushed the department and Congress to throw out the regulation, but others have cited fears that relaxing the rule would lead to fraud.

  • Newspaper

    Mbale Schools Cited in Graft

    Uganda

    Press

    - All Africa

    Contractors hired to build schools in Mbale district have accused primary school management committees of demanding bribes before releasing funds under the school facilitation grant programme.

  • Newspaper

    Researcher who was convicted in plague case is sentenced to 2 years in jail

    USA

    Press

    Katerine S. Mangan - Chronicle of Higher Education

    A former Texas Tech University researcher, who was convicted of mishandling harassment complaints and cheating the university out of its share of clinical-research money, was sentenced last week to two years in prison and a $15,000 fine.

  • Newspaper

    Former coach indicted on fraud charges for providing phony academic credits to basketball players

    USA

    Press

    Welch Suggs - The Chronicle of Higher Education

    A federal grand jury in Kansas indicted a former college-basketball coach last month on charges that he arranged for his players to receive phony academic credit and stole $120,000 in Pell Grants. The former coach faces a total of 51 years in prison and over $1.5-million in fines if found guilty of all counts.

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