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  • Corruption risk assessment in Kosovo*

    News

    IIEP has recently conducted an assessment of corruption risks in the administration of Kosovo's educational services at all levels of the system, within the framework of the UNDP Support to Anticorruption Efforts in Kosovo project (SAEK, 2013-2016).

  • Newspaper

    A member of parliament wishes to impose anti-plagiarism software in universities

    France

    Press

    Julie-Anne De Queiroz - Le Figaro

    The parliament's representative of French citizens living in Northern Europe, pleads for a systematic use of anti-plagiarism software. "It is a question of equal chances", insists the Deputy when addressing the Ministers of National and Higher Education on this subject.

  • Newspaper

    Universities have been "using the points system" to inflate demand

    Ireland

    Press

    Joe Humphreys - The Irish Times

    The chair of a universities' task force on reforming admissions procedures for third level has admitted colleges have been artificially inflating points by offering courses with a small student intake.

  • Newspaper

    Reform higher education's old system of privileges

    Ukraine

    Press

    Yegor Stadny - University World News

    The last time Ukrainian cities faced occupation and artillery bombing was during World War II. That was until this spring, when Russia annexed Crimea and started to supply rebels who have occupied large cities in the East of Ukraine. This has changed everyday life for millions of Ukrainian citizens, among them thousands of school-leavers who want to enter university.

  • Newspaper

    We are the perfect gadflies: How youth can help to fight corruption in education

    Netherlands

    Press

    Frits Brouwer - Global Partnership for Education

    For Dutch Youth Representative for UNESCO, education has to come to the forefront of the development debate. He states that the implementation and effectiveness of many education programmes is hampered by corruption, and that young people can play a vital role in combatting this.

  • Newspaper

    Four universities banned from accepting new students

    Russian Federation

    Press

    - The Moscow Times

    Russia's state education watchdog has added four universities to a list of educational institutions that will be prohibited from enrolling new students from this autumn, the agency said in a statement last week. The addition of two universities in Moscow and two in Dagestan bring the list of educational institutions blacklisted in recent days to 12.

  • Newspaper

    Bogus academic claims tarnish Serbia's ivory tower

    Serbia

    Press

    - The Australian

    A Serbian minister stands accused of plagiarism and his mentor appears to have lied about having a doctorate in twin scandals that have cast a long shadow over the Balkan nation's ivory tower.

  • Monitoring report from the second round of the 2014 National Matura Exam

    Noting the significance of the State Matura Exam, and bearing in mind the numerous remarks and complaints pertaining to its conduct in the previous years and in the first round of the exam this year, Internews Kosova and BIRN monitored this process...

    Internews Kosova

    Pristina, Internews Kosova, 2014

  • Newspaper

    Watch dodgy firms offer ready-written essays to help cheating students get a degree

    UK

    Press

    Simon Wright and Colin Cortbus - The Mirror

    Up to 100,000 students a year now use dozens of shady companies to produce bespoke pieces of work guaranteed to secure high marks.

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