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Presenting Transparency International's Africa Education Watch report

10.03.2010 Ghana, Madagascar, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda

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Transparency International - Transparency International

A survey conducted by Transparency International in Ghana, Madagascar, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Uganda covered different actors in the education system. The reports highlight the lack of budget information in schools and call for strengthened regulation and accountability, as well as greater involvement of school communities and parents.
Promoting citizen engagement in combating corruption in Ukraine (action): final report

Advocacy and monitoring campaigns conducted by strong and capable civil society and mass media organizations can keep anticorruption issues high on the public agenda and can exert considerable pressure on government to implement transparency and...

Weidman, John C.

Washington, D.C., USAID, 2010
Corruption and education

The booklet deals with the issue of corruption in the education sector. It defines corruption in its various manifestation and magnitude. It refers to a number of factors, particularly the international conventions, various research works and various...

Poisson, Muriel

Paris, UNESCO, 2010
Audits hold institutions accountable

03.05.2008 Australia

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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
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
Civil society engagement in education budgets: a report documenting Commonwealth Education Fund experience

This report documents CEF experience, illustrating how civil society can engage in the budget process through budget analysis; tracking disbursement flows through the education system; monitoring expenditure; and lobbying to influence budget...

Perry, Victoria

London, CEF, 2008
Audit: Curtail wake principals' power. An outside audit finds disparities in school resources that won't be easy to fix

31.08.2007 USA

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T. Keung Hui and Kinea White Epps - News & Observer

According to a report elaborated by auditors from a nonprofit group based in Indiana, County principals have too much power and should be reined in to improve education in the school district. In order to avoid disparities, auditors have recommended limiting principal's powers and holding them for accountable for mistakes, as well as determining which decisions can be made at school level and which must be made by the central office.

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