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Accountability is increasingly recognised as the key mediating variable that encourages service providers to deliver efficient and effective local services. In the context of education, accountability strategies do not always explicitly consider...
L’idéal français d’un modèle républicain et démocratique de l’école est depuis plusieurs décennies mis en question. Entre une morale républicaine qui semble ne plus se transmettre, un cadre laïque parfois contesté et un système éducatif encore...
School principals from nine regions (except the West) were summoned and questioned by key officials in the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training as a result of alleged cases of fraud revealed during the inspection of their respective institutions during official exams.
The issue of quality assurance in the tertiary education system has become a public concern as a consequence of the scandal in which the president of the National Accreditation Commission and at least two chancellors of private universities were arrested and accused of money laundering, bribery and accepting kickbacks.
Thirty-five former school officials have been implicated in a test cheating scandal, and have been given a deadline to surrender to authorities in the state of Georgia. The accused in the city of Atlanta face counts of racketeering, making false statements and conspiring to improve test scores to win cash bonuses.
The main purpose of the Guidance Note is to provide a basic description of the existing trends, challenges and opportunities in AILs, as well as highlight areas of program/policy opportunities and recommend feasible policy approaches. Rather than...
In an attempt to curb unregistered teachers, The Chief Executive of the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRC) has recently mandated that any teacher in the Imo region caught without the proper qualifications will be fired and prosecuted by the state and that schools not meeting required standards would be closed down.
The Kenyan Minister of Education has asked all education stakeholders to report any forms of malpractice in the ongoing "Form One" replacement exercise. The Minister stated that all admission letters are released to students free of charge and therefore parents/guardians should not be duped into parting with presents, tokens and appreciation or inducements to receive these letters.
Jakarta's Pramuka Street intersection is well known for its essay-production services, as Indonesian universities continue to be dogged by the problem of ghostwritten essays. By paying a sum, a student can graduate without making much effort writing the final-year dissertation.
A cheating scandal at Harvard College has grown, and this time, the administrators, not students, are under fire. The school has apologized for the way it handled a secret search of the email accounts of resident deans. It conducted the search in an attempt to find who leaked information about the scandal to the media last year.
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