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  • Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?

    We investigate the distributional consequences of a corruption-fighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats for...

    Borcan, Oana, Lindahl, Mikael, Mitrut, Andreea

    2017

  • Not the usual suspects: largest survey on EU academic corruption

    Muriel Poisson

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  • A student’s view on transparency and anti-corruption

    Lea Meister

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  • Newspaper

    Claims of medical degrees being bought in Romania

    Cyprus, Romania

    Press

    Anna Hassapi - Cyprus Mail

    The Council for Degree Accreditation (KYSATS) and the Pancyprian Association of Medical Practitioners are investigating some Cypriot and Greek doctors accused of having bought fake medical degrees from Romanian universities. However, it has been confirmed that it would be very difficult to validate whether a degree was bought or earned, because they would not examine the candidates' knowledge, instead the procedures and whether all the procedures were followed and legal is what is going to be investigated.

  • Newspaper

    World's biggest diploma mill brazenly stems it up

    Romania

    Press

    Justin Wells - Degreeinfo.com

    For years, a Romanian degree mill sold fake diplomas all over the world. Every moth $ 2 million had been transferred into a bank account in Cyprus. On the March 5, however, a joint action of US authorities (FTC) and British authorities shut down all the dozen-or-so websites. However it will probably not put them out of business since their main tools are Email spams and clever telemarketing.

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