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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.

  • Ethics in education: the role of teacher codes

    As for any profession, the education profession follows certain general standards of practice (either implicit or explicit), such as equality of treatment and fulfilment of duties. Problems of ethics in teacher behaviour include a number of...

    Van Nuland, Shirley, Khandelwal, B.P., Biswal, K., Dewan, E.A., Bajracharya, H.R.

    Paris, UNESCO, 2006

  • Newspaper

    Slow corruption that threatens our universities

    UK

    Press

    Martin Bright - The Observer

    It is claimed that a "slow corruption" is being installed as universities are struggling for funds. Degrees are for sale and in one university a professor at a former polytechnic was found to have ordered his staff to "minimise" the number of failing students by marking up those at risk of failing because there has been a drop in applications.

  • 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

  • Utstein partners' anti-corruption strategies: comparative analysis

    This presentation of the Utstein anti-corruption policies is based on a study of available documentation, and seeks to present policies and strategies in a comparative framework. The presentation, however, does not review progress in terms of the...

    Hellan, Johan

    2002

  • Managing fiduciary risk when providing direct budget support

    This paper provides guidance to DFID staff on how the public expenditure management elements of fiduciary risks should be assessed and managed where DFID provides funds directly to recipient governments to be spent as part of their budgets (direct...

    UK. Dept for International Development

    London, DFID, 2002

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