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This video is made by IIPE-UNESCO, and aims to demonstrate the power of open data in education How can educational agents promote integrity and transparency in the education sector? Open school data is a powerful way to integrate the entire educational community: they share with the public information about school funding, student and teacher numbers, school equipment, textbooks, and test scores.

Produced by IIEP-UNESCO, the video aims to raise awareness of the power of open school data in education. Open data is a powerful way of involving the whole education community: it shares information with the public about school funding, pupil and teacher numbers, facilities, textbooks and exam results.

This video, made by IIEP-UNESCO, aims to demonstrate the power of open data in education. It explores how can educational agents promote integrity and transparency in the education sector.  Open school data serves as a powerful way to integrate the entire educational community as it provides the public information such as school funding, number of students and teachers, school equipments and resources, textbooks, and test scores.

In an unprecedented crackdown on academic misconduct, as many as 179 university professors from some 110 universities in South Korea were indicted on Monday after an extensive criminal investigation into a huge copyright scam. The professors have been charged with republishing existing textbooks written by others under their own names by modifying the covers with the alleged connivance of the publishing companies.

A warning by German anti-corruption organisation Transparency International that links between higher education and business are becoming increasingly obscure has sparked an open debate. "We are observing corporate interests increasingly dominating teaching and research to a large extent,” said Director of Transparency International Germany.