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Education bill to improve safety and accountability in New Zealand

08.09.2008 New Zealand

Press

Chris Carter - United Nations Public Administration Network

The Education Amendment Bill proposes the creation of an information matching programme which will allow the identification of teachers who are teaching without a current practicing certificate or authorization. In addition the Bill provides greater clarity to school boards of trustees on their roles, and increases flexibility around timing of board elections, the establishment of boards and alternative board constitutions.
Need and greed: corruption risks, perceptions and prevention in humanitarian assistance

Humanitarian assistance injects valuable resources into resource-poor and often insecure contexts with high levels of need. The complexity of humanitarian operations and their rapidly increasing budgets make addressing corruption and the taboos...

Bailey, Sarah

London, ODI, 2008
Audits hold institutions accountable

03.05.2008 Australia

Press

David Woodhouse - University World News

In 1999, the Australian Federal Education Minister announced the establishment of the Australian Universities Quality Agency, or AUQA. AUQA has to audit universities as well as non-university institutions. There has been some criticism that AUQA "only looks at processes not outcomes" or that it "looks only at the processes intended to achieve quality and not at the quality itself". In 2006, AUQA commissioned an independent review of its activities.
Our money, our responsibility: a citizens' guide to monitoring government expenditures

This Guide reflects the growing focus of civil society organizations on monitoring the results achieved by government expenditures. It offers an overview of government budget implementation, including budget execution, procurement, impact measurement...

Ramkumar, Vivek

Washington, D.C., The International Budget Project, 2008
RE:FINE project: Assessment for increasing quality, equal opportunities and accountability in education

The main purpose of this survey was to allow interested members of the assessment network to gather information about the understanding of and the attitudes towards their centralized examination systems and current reforms in this area. The survey...

Bethell, George, Zabulionis, Algirdas

Ukraine, Center for Testing Technologies, 2008
Time for accountability: Assessment of the G8's fight against corruption: 2008 G8 progress report: authored and compiled by Transparency International's G8 National Chapters

TI national chapters in the G8 countries reviewed the Leaders' commitments since 2002 with respect to reducing corruption, assessed progress implementing those commitments and concluded that performance falls short with profound adverse consequences...

Transparency International

Berlin, Transparency International, 2008
Corruption and aid modalities

The introduction of `new' aid modalities - and in particular general budget support - has increased the interest in the relationship between corruption and aid modalities. This U4 Issue reviews the information that theory and empirical studies...

Fritz, Verena, Kolstad, Ivar

Bergen, Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2008
The Growing accountability agenda: progress or mixed blessing?

In the past decade, accountability has become a major concern in most parts of the world. Governments, parliaments and society at large are increasingly asking universities to justify the use of public resources and account more thoroughly for their...

Salmi, Jamil

Paris, OECD, 2008
Out of control? Patterns of teachers corruption in Kyrgyzstan and their implications for the study of street-level corruption control in weak states

How best to combat coruption? Who should take action?What form should the fight take? This research contributes to a better understanding of corruption control - specifically street-level corruption in weak states - by examining teacher corruption in...

Johnson, Eric M.

United States of America, Colombia University, 2008
Governance Matters VII: aggregate and individual governance indicators, 1996-2007

This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2007: Voice and Accountability, Political...

Kaufmann, Daniel, Kraay, Aart, Mastruzzi, Massimo

Washington D.C., World Bank, 2008

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