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  • Getting to the root of corruption in education

    Adam Graycar

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    Two in court for R6m school feeding scheme fraud

    South Africa

    Press

    - enca

    Two people are in hot water after allegedly defrauding the Mpumalanga Department of Education of an estimated R6-million. The two appeared in the Nelspruit Regional Court on Thursday over their alleged involvement in a bogus school-feeding scheme. The Hawks said that in 2011 the accused allegedly submitted several fraudulent invoices to the Department of Education for services never rendered. An employee of the Department of Health allegedly recruited owners of various companies to submit these invoices. The money was allegedly deposited into the said businesses accounts, as well as individual accounts and was subsequently withdrawn and shared amongst the syndicate.

  • Video

    In Uganda, an Internet application to track down corruption

    Uganda

    Video

    AFP -

    This tool, called "Action for Transparency", provides data on budget allocations to schools and health centres. The application's website provides a platform for the community to easily denounce acts of corruption. 

  • Video

    Improving governance in Cameroon to combat corruption

    Cameroon

    Video

    WorldBank -

    Produced by the World Bank, the video is a report documenting anti-corruption initiatives in Cameroon. These initiatives are aimed at resolving problems of poor governance in the areas of health and education. For example, the "fair of ideas" competition involves awarding small donations to civil society organisations to combat corruption and encourage citizens to demand better health and education services. 

  • Teacher's absenteeism in primary schools in Cameroon

    The article focuses on the absenteeism of teachers in primary schools in Cameroon. It cites the study by Transparency International (TI) Cameroon which selected a sample of 30 government primary schools from the Centre Region. It states that the...

    Ngwé, Gabriel

    Yaounde, Transparency International, 2013

  • Teacher absence and incentives in primary education: primary education results from a national teacher tracking survey in Ecuador

    High rates of absence of teachers from their posts is a serious obstacle to delivery of education in many developing countries, but hard evidence on the problem has been scarce. This study, carried out as part of a new multi-country survey project in...

    Chaudhury, Nazmul, Hammer, Jeffrey, Rogers, F. Halsey, Lopez-Calix, José, Córdoba, Nancy, Kremer, Michael, Mularidharan, Khartik

    2004

  • Corruption and the provision of health care and education services

    Government intervention to correct market failures is often accompanied by government failures and corruption. This is no more evident than in social sectors that are characterised by significant market failures and government intervention. However...

    Gupta, Sanjeev, Davoodi, Hamid, Tiongson, Erwin

    Washington D.C., IMF, 2000

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