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  • 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.

  • Video

    University of Lubumbashi, DRC: new measures to combat corruption and fraud

    Congo

    Video

    Alain Kambale -

    A new anti-corruption system has been introduced at the University of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The innovation involves managing results via a central server. 

  • 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.

  • Diploma and accreditation mills: new trends in credential abuse

    This report investigates the new generation of bogus universities, taking a closer look at the involvement of bogus colleges in immigration scams and the phenomenon of online high school diploma mills. It also looks back at the year's developments in...

    Ben Cohen, Eyal, Winch, Rachel

    Bedford, 2011

  • Newspaper

    Korea to tighten measures to verify foreign degrees

    Korea R

    Press

    Bae Ji-sook - Korean Herald

    The government will adopt stricter measures to verify overseas academic diplomas and tighten its monitoring of universities hiring staff with such qualifications.

  • 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

  • Pourquoi les étudiants trichent-ils?

    Fréquemment dénoncée, fortement médiatisée, la tricherie scolaire semble avoir connu un tournant majeur avec les "fuites" au baccalauréat S en 2011. Alors même que les sanctions "officielles", celles qui sont prononcées par les conseils ou les...

    Guibert, Pascal, Michaut, Christophe

    2011

  • Newspaper

    Lecturer offered exam pass for sex

    Australia

    Press

    Bernard Lane - The Australian

    No es probable que el profesor universitario de Perth descubierto por amenazar a estudiantes chinas con suspenderlas si no mantenían relaciones sexuales con él sea el único académico que explote la vulnerabilidad de estudiantes atrapadas en el negocio de visados-por-títulos, según la Comisión contra el Crimen y Corrupción de Australia Occidental.

  • Newspaper

    Can education in Russia be reformed?

    Russian Federation

    Press

    Galina Masterova - Rossiyskaya Gazeta

    A good grade on the new SAT-style exams in Russia costs about 40,000 rubles. Could reform and crackdowns on corruption bring education back from the brink?

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