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  • Newspaper

    Civil society orgaisation ‘Mexicans First’ calls on Edomex candidates to make educational commitments

    Mexico

    Press

    - Expansion

    The civil organization called for the six aspiring governors of Mexico State to commit to actions such as debugging the education payroll and providing resources to schools in marginalized areas. "Mexicans have a right to know which candidates for state governor are in favor of educational reform and which are in favor of the comfortable status quo, as well as which candidates for governor are committed to the rule of law and which will continue to allow a series of abuses and omissions of the law," said the organization.

  • Newspaper

    Minedu rewards winners of Best Practices in Public Management and Corruption in Education

    Peru

    Press

    Peru Ministerio de Educacion - Peru Ministerio de Educacion

    The commitment and effort of Ministry of Education ( Minedu ) officials were recognized during the awards ceremony of the contest "Best Practices in Public and Anticorruption Management in Education 2015" which this year honoured the winners of three categories. In this fourth version of the contest thirty-eight good practices were presented, which were evaluated by an ad hoc committee based on criteria such as planning, replicability and sustainability.

  • Mapas sectoriales de riesgos de corrupción: sector Educación

    En la primera parte de este documento se hace una descripción metodológica del ejercicio que funciona como guía para la lectura de los mapas de riesgos sectoriales de corrupción, seguidamente se presentan los mapas de riesgos de corrupción para los...

    Departamento Administrativo de la Presidencia de la República (Colombia), Secretaría de Transparencia (Colombia), UNDP

    Bogotá, DAPRE, 2014

  • Newspaper

    Education Ministry Warns Would-Be Teachers of Training Fraud

    Bolivia

    Press

    - La Prensa

    The pamphlet announces the opening of courses in eight colleges and asks for 50 bolivianos to be deposited in a bank account. The ministry of education gave notice that the announcement was not official. The ministry has already given a cautionary notice to the general public via the print press on the falsehood of the information that circulated through educational establishments in La Paz.

  • Newspaper

    Getting a Fake Degree in China Is Fast and Cheap, but not Always Effective

    China

    Press

    Pascale Trouillaud - El Periódico de México

    In one hour, and for about 38 dollars, you can get a false university degree in China, but the enforcement of punishment is making it ever more difficult to use such fraud to find a job or get into a foreign university. The measures introduced by China have curbed fraud and many fake degrees are now detected through authentication procedures; however, some genuine diplomas have been awarded to bogus students.

  • Newspaper

    96 Buenos Aires Police Officers Investigated for Falsifying Diplomas

    Argentina

    Press

    - El Clarín

    The public prosecutor for economic crime in Mar de Plata is investigating 96 officers suspected of using falsified secondary-education degrees in order to get promoted. He also stated that a preliminary report by the Buenos Aires ministry of education has confirmed that 250 such certificates presented by police officers are being checked and at least 96 are false.

  • Newspaper

    Teachers Gorge Themselves in Honduran Schools

    Honduras

    Press

    - El Heraldo

    Investigations into the departmental directorate of education have turned up some revealing findings. Cases of teachers without the necessary profile to teach specialised courses, or an oversupply of faculty with no pupils to teach are two of the violations unearthed.

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