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  • Newspaper

    Teaching: a vocation or financial goldmine?

    UK

    Press

    Adi Bloom - Times Educational Supplement

    Few people enter the teaching profession for the money. Teachers repeatedly describe it as "a vocation", widely recognized as a euphemism for poorly paid. But for a few enterprising teachers, the education system is rife with opportunities for personal financial gain. A report on corruption in education, published this week by UNESCO highlights ways in which heads, teachers and education officials can extort and embezzle school funds.

  • La Morale professionnelle des instituteurs: code Soleil et Ferré

    Le Code Soleil dénommé aussi Le livre des Instituteurs a formé en Ecoles normales des milliers d'instituteurs du XXeme siècle. Ce code expose les principes essentiels qui doivent guider l'instituteur dans l'exercice de sa fonction. Que doit faire...

    Pachod, André

    Paris, L'Harmattan, 2007

  • Governance in education: transparency and accountability

    This book presents an international review of initiatives aimed at improving transparency and accountability in the management of education in a variety of domains, including: education financing, teacher appointment and transfer, teacher conduct...

    Hallak, Jacques, Poisson, Muriel

    Paris, UNESCO, 2006

  • Newspaper

    How to teach corrupt school principals a lesson

    Kenya

    Press

    Mwai Kihu - The East African

    The cost of running schools could go down by as much as 40% if corruption is eradicated. Moreover, if the head teacher's lifestyle is beyond what is expected of his station, blow the whistle. This is bound to raise cries of witch-hunting, but it is practised effectively in the Scandinavian countries, which are the least corrupt in the world.

  • Confronting corruption: Ukrainian private higher education

    This paper attempts to understand the challenges facing higher education in Ukraine as a result of corruption. More specifically, it examines the issues of licensing and accreditation, using the finding of interviews conducted with 43 rectors, vice...

    Stetar, Joseph, Panych, Oleksiy, Cheng, Bin

    2005

  • Formula funding of schools, decentralization and corruption

    This book looks at the relationships between decentralization of funding for schools and the prevalence of corruption, a crucial concern for education policymakers today. The monograph is based on the assumption that formula funding acts to reduce...

    Levacic, Rosalind, Downes, Peter, Caldwell, Brian, Gurr, David, Spinks, Jim, Herczynski, Jan, Luce, Maria-Beatriz, Farenzena, Nalú

    Paris, UNESCO, 2004

  • Ethique et déontologie dans les métiers de l'éducation

    Destiné plus particulièrement aux enseignants, aux conseillers d'éducation, aux chefs d'établissement et aux inspecteurs, ce second numéro des "Cahiers d'Education & Devenir", intitulé "Éthique et déontologie dans les métiers de l'éducation", a pour...

    Marseille (France), Education & Devenir, 2003

  • Corruption and the education sector

    This paper discusses reasons why national education systems are particularly vulnerable to pervasive corruption, forms that corruption takes within the education sector, and interventions that have been suggested for reducing corruption. It argues...

    Chapman, David

    Washington D.C., MSI, 2002

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