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  • Newspaper

    Officials strive to curb corruption in education system

    Kyrgyzstan

    Press

    Abdullah Ahiyam - Eurasia Insight

    Kyrgyz are now focusing on a new standardized test that officials contend will help eradicate graft in universities. Low teacher salaries and the long-standing practice of selling grades make that target a challenge. Many students simply purchase their degrees. In exchange, the instructor allows him to pass without taking exams, or completing the assignments.

  • Newspaper

    Misappropriation of University Resources for Political Purposes to be Severely Punished

    Venezuela

    Press

    - Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias

    The minister for higher education stated that if university resources are proven to be misappropriated for purposes other than those intended or for political aims, penalties provided for by law will be applied. He went on to say that the authorities in charge of tertiary education must ensure that university resources are used for the benefit of students. He went on to say that the authorities in charge of tertiary education must ensure that university resources are used for the benefit of students.

  • Newspaper

    Teachers in Madhya Pradesh sell textbooks as scrap, suspended

    India

    Press

    - Aussie Indo Lanka

    Two primary and secondary teacher have been suspended for selling textbooks that belonged to the school, the textbooks meant for free distribution by the District Institute of Educational Training (DIET), among students were seized from a scrap dealer's shop.

  • Newspaper

    Principals allege corruption in Form One selection

    Kenya

    Press

    Sam Otieno - The Standard

    The principals allege that the number of slots they are being asked to reserve during the Form One selection, are enormous and suspect sinister motives on the part of the Ministry of Education. The ministry's officers have stated that this policy was adopted in order to cater for returning diplomats' children and other special and deserving cases.

  • Newspaper

    Cheating is a growing problem facing academia

    Press

    Liz Lightfoot - The Independent

    Companies that employ graduates to write essays and complete assignments for undergraduates claim they are not undermining academic standards because cheating occurs only if the students pass off the work as their own, something they discourage. In the other hand, reduced contact hours between undergraduates and lecturers make it harder for staff to detect work that is out of line with the student's abilities or writing style.

  • Newspaper

    Running in place

    Ukraine

    Press

    Ksenia Pasechnik - IPS News

    Corruption is simultaneously a cause and a symptom of Ukrainian education system situation. The outdated teaching methods, underpaid and uninspired teachers the critical lack of resources and the disconnection between primary, secondary and post graduated education, show the need of the system to be reformed in order to be use full to a globalized world an a fluid society.

  • Corruption and reform in higher education in Ukraine

    At least thirty percent of Ukrainians enter colleges by paying bribes while many others use their connections with the faculty and administration. Corruption increases inequalities in access to higher education, prevents future economic growth in the...

    Osipian, Ararat L.

    2009

  • Newspaper

    The Centre from Which the Doorman Certificates Were Falsified Reported the Fraud to the Catalan Government

    Spain

    Press

    Nando García - El Mundo

    The AITES Academy, which provides vocational training and saw hundreds of its nightclub doorman's certificates falsified, took its case to the Direcció General de Jocs i Espectacles de la Generalitat some six months ago to inform that the seal of the centre was being used to issue certificates whereas the corresponding training was not done. Police are continuing to investigate the matter and at least 400 fraudulent authorizations have been uncovered.

  • Newspaper

    Effort to join 21st century higher education

    India

    Press

    Philip G. Altbach and N. / Jayaram - University World News

    Government will create 12 new central universities, adding to the 18 that currently exist. However, if India invests large amounts of money and human capital into academic improvement and expansion, without undertaking strategies to ensure that corruption and the entrenched control of bureaucracy will not waste the investment, a failure will be assured.

  • Newspaper

    100,000 fake certificates found in Bihar

    India

    Press

    - News track India

    Over 100,000 fake certificates of various Indian universities have been found in a Bihar town. The absence of industries and other business opportunities forces young men and women in Bihar to apply for jobs in government-run schools and also resort to fake certificates. Only two days ago, the government had rejected more than four million applications to check a fake degree racket and other irregularities during a teacher recruitment drive for government-run schools.

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