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  • OECD Reviews of integrity in education: Ukraine 2017

    Education in Ukraine is marked by integrity violations from early childhood education and care through postgraduate study. In the past decade policy makers and civic organisations have made progress in addressing these challenges. However, much...

    OECD

    2017

  • Newspaper

    Where corruption among university leaders is rife

    Ukraine

    Press

    Ararat Osipian - University World News

    The acting rector of one of Ukraine’s flagship technical universities was arrested in his office for taking a bribe of €170,000, which is roughly equivalent to US$200,000. In a country where the average salary is the equivalent of a meagre US$100 a month, this sum sounds astronomical. This is not the first incident where a university rector has been arrested in connection with a bribe. If there were a ranking that rated world higher education institutions based on how corrupt they are, Ukraine’s universities would doubtless take some of the top spots.

  • Newspaper

    Acting rector of a top university detained on suspicion of large-scale bribery

    Ukraine

    Press

    Veronika Melkozerova - Kyiv Post

    The acting rector of National Aviation University of Ukraine, was detained on 26 August on charges of taking a €100,000 (US$112,000) bribe for a job appointment. The accused was reportedly detained by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau detectives and Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s office and Security Service officers. The following day, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau reported on its website that during the search in his apartment, detectives found the cash, and also confiscated nine gold bars. In response, the acting rector claims he was set up.

  • An experimental evaluation of an anti-corruption intervention among Ukrainian university students

    In this paper, we investigate experimentally the effect of an anti-corruption intervention – an info folder based on materials developed by Transparency International – on Ukrainian university students’ willingness to participate in an anti...

    Denisova-Schmidt, Elena, Huber, Martin, Prytula, Yaroslav

    Fribourg (Switzerland), Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Fribourg, 2015

  • On the determinants of educational corruption: the case of Ukraine

    This article utilizes a unique data set to examine the relationship between a group of potential explanatory variables and educational corruption in Ukraine. Our corruption controls include bribing on exams, on term papers, for credit, and for...

    Shaw, Philip, Katsaiti, Marina‐Selini, Pecoraro, Brandon

    2014

  • Academic corruption and reform in Russia and Ukraine

    After the collapse of communism a problematic development took place in nearly all former Soviet states. As a consequence of social uncertainties as well as weak and unstructured formal institutional settings that existed, during the transition...

    Klein, Eduard

    2012

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