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Information reduces corruption and improves enrolment (but not schooling): a replication study of a newspaper campaign in Uganda

In the mid-1990s, Ugandan primary schools received only one-fifth of intended government capitation grants. A seminal study shows that a grassroots newspaper campaign substantially reduced grant capture and improved educational outcomes. We replicate...

Kuecken, Maria, Valofrt, Marie-Anne

2019
IIEP participates in the Annual International Conference for Integrity (CAII) held in Peru

News

21.12.2018 At the invitation of the Comptroller General’s Office of the Republic of Peru, IIEP participated in the 2018 Annual International Conference for Integrity (CAII) held in Lima, Peru, from 6 to 7 December 2018. This annual event seeks to "create a space for discussion about different government oversight mechanisms and their latest developments around the world”.
Promoting accountability through information: how open school data can help

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22.10.2018 Six case studies from Asia and the Pacific look at how open school data can create a more transparent and accountable education system.
The YouTube stars being paid to sell cheating

01.05.2018 Ukraine

Press

By Branwen Jeffreys and Edward Main - BBC News

YouTube stars are being paid to sell academic cheating, a BBC investigation has found. More than 250 channels are promoting EduBirdie, based in Ukraine, which allows students to buy essays, rather than doing the work themselves. YouTube said it would help creators understand they cannot promote dishonest behaviour. The BBC Trending investigation uncovered more than 1,400 videos with a total of more than 700 million views containing EduBirdie adverts selling cheating to students and school pupils.
NBC 5 honored with Peabody Award for Dallas County Schools bus investigation

24.04.2018 USA

Press

- NBC 5 News

KXAS-TV was awarded a 2017 Peabody Award for its extensive NBC 5 Investigates series, “Big Buses, Bigger Problems: Taxpayers Taken for a Ride”. NBC 5’s investigation exposed a web of corruption, staggering financial mismanagement, hidden personal relationships and conflicts of interest inside Dallas County Schools, a public agency responsible for transporting more than 75,000 school children daily in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Corruption plagues Afghanistan's education system

03.04.2018 Afghanistan

Press

Alex Cooper - OCCRP

As another school year begins in Afghanistan, the country continues to face insecurity, an epidemic of corruption within its education system and old customs that keep many students and qualified teachers away from classrooms. Violence and corruption are problems that can hardly be solved on grassroots level only. Increased violence forced more than 1,000 schools to shut their doors since 2016 and according to a report compiled by the country’s independent corruption monitor, corruption is “devastating” the education system and the country.