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  • Newspaper

    The General Auditor denounces bad management at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin

    France

    Press

    Camille Stromboni - L'étudiant

    The financial crisis at UVSQ (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin), on the edge of default in payment in late 2013, is "essentially the result of the institution's failure to anticipate the consequences of management decisions".

  • Newspaper

    Hundreds of Brighton students investigated for cheating

    UK

    Press

    - The Argus

    1,382 students from two British universities have been investigated for cheating since 2010. Most of those cases are of plagiarism. Most plagiarized work came from media and film students, and the Informatics department – which includes computer sciences.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Official study slams university rankings as "useless"

    Norway

    Press

    Jan Petter Myklebust - University World News

    A government-commissioned study of the placement of Norwegian universities in global rankings – in particular compared to other Nordic institutions – has concluded that even the top rankings are so based on subjective weightings of factors and on dubious data that they are useless as a basis for information if the goal is to improve higher education.

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