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  • Academic corruption and reform in Russia and Ukraine

    After the collapse of communism a problematic development took place in nearly all former Soviet states. As a consequence of social uncertainties as well as weak and unstructured formal institutional settings that existed, during the transition...

    Klein, Eduard

    2012

  • Corruption and reform in higher education in Ukraine

    At least thirty percent of Ukrainians enter colleges by paying bribes while many others use their connections with the faculty and administration. Corruption increases inequalities in access to higher education, prevents future economic growth in the...

    Osipian, Ararat L.

    2009

  • Transparency in education in Eastern Europe

    In the former communist countries, education could become the key element for combating corrupt behaviour and promoting integrity and ethics. Possible strategies include establishing clear and transparent systems of budgeting, auditing, examination...

    Pliksnys, Arunas, Kopnicka, Sylvia, Hrynevych, Lilya, Palicarsky, Constantine

    Paris, UNESCO, 2009

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    Higher Education Corruption in Ukraine: opinions and estimates

    Ukraine

    Press

    Ararat L. Osipian - International Higher Education

    The Head of the Department of Economic Crimes Prevention of the Ministry of the Interior said in July 2006 that there were 210 cases of bribery registered in higher education institutions in that year, of which 11 were in Kiev. He mentioned a departmental chair in Lugansk who demanded that students pay his bills from the electronics and construction stores and he accepted cash as well. The corrupt chair was arrested while receiving a bribe of $2000. In yet another case, deputy-director of the Kiev National University's college was arrested while receiving a bribe of $6000. The number of investigated cases appears to be the tip of the iceberg as corruption in education is believed to be widespread.

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    Confronting corruption: Ukrainian private higher education

    Ukraine

    Press

    J. Stetar, O. Panych and B. Cheng - Center for International Higher Education

    In spring 2004 interviews were conducted with 43 rectors, vice rectors, and administrators at five private universities. A consensus emerged that successful licensing or accreditation applications, with few exceptions, required some form of bribery. Licensing might require a bribe of US$ 200 about two months' salary for a typical academic - while accreditation might call for a 10 or 20 times greater "gratuity."

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