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  • Using digital tools to promote transparency and accountability

    Basic page

    Digital tools have the potential to overhaul the management of education systems, while also fostering transparency and accountability within the sector. For example, data portals can inform citizens about the amounts of funds allocated to schools, satellite systems can monitor school locations and construction, and artificial intelligence can perform automated audits and monitor public spending in schools. Digital tools can also address pressing issues such as ghost teachers, absenteeism, examination fraud, forged certificates, and fake diplomas.

  • Video

    Open school data: what planners need to know

    International

    Video

    IIEP - UNESCO -

    In this video produced by UNESCO-IIEP, Muriel Poisson explains what open school data is and how it is evolving, as presented in the book "Open School Data: What Planners Need to Know» and shares her practical conclusions.

  • Video

    Open school data: What planners need to know

    International

    Video

    IIEP - UNESCO -

    In this video, Muriel Poisson from IIEP-UNESCO explains what open school data is; its evolution; the main idea of the book "Open School Data, What Planners needs to know"; and practical conclusions. 

  • Newspaper

    Footballer’s impersonation: Verification tools needed

    Egypt

    Press

    Wagdy Sawahel - University World News

    To identify students accurately and easily detect any potential impersonator, an expert from Cairo’s National Research Centre called on African universities to introduce biometric systems based on fingerprints and to install scanning systems at entrance gates, examination halls and lecture rooms. An Egyptian soccer player has been recently impersonated during the mid-year exam at a private higher education institution in Shabraman.

  • Bhim_students at school protest

    Towards effective and inclusive grievance redress mechanisms in education

    Suchi Pande

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  • Newspaper

    Education Ministry launches learner tracking system

    Uganda

    Press

    Godfrey Lugaaju - All Africa

    To prevent the forging of information, a new digital platform will allow learners from primary to university levels to have an identification number. Schools will update data about their learners, teaching and non-teaching staff, infrastructure and facilities including physical education and sports through their online EMIS user accounts. The new system is aimed to eliminate ghost workers and improve transparency and accountability across the country.

  • What we do

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    Fighting corrupt practices in the education sector enables governments to strengthen their educational systems: a precondition for the attainment of SDG4.

  • Transforming public procurement in education: a lesson on open contracting from Ukraine

    Viktor Nestulia

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