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  • Newspaper

    Slovakian politician in plagiarism scandal

    Slovakia

    Press

    Debora Weber-Wulff - Copy, Paste, and Shake

    According to Slovak media the Speaker of the Slovakian Parliament has been accused of having copied his JuDR doctoral thesis in law from five other sources. The politician put his thesis in the university library under embargo, when the accusations first arose. Comenius University announced that a doctoral dissertation with the same title and same number of pages was missing in its university archive and that an enquiry has been launched.

  • Plagiarism policies in Slovakia: full report

    This report is part of the program “Impact of Plagiarism in Higher Education Across Europe (IPPHEAE)” funded by the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme. In this report, the author starts with the background information of higher education in...

    Foltynek, Dr. Tomas

    2013

  • Strategies and responses to plagiarism in Slovakia

    The rapid increase in the number of higher education institutions (HEI), students, ICT and internet penetration after 1989 and a low level of copyright and intellectual property rights awareness contributed to the growth of plagiarism at HEIs in...

    Kravjar, Július, Noge, Juraj

    2013

  • Newspaper

    A national system to prevent plagiarism is working

    Slovakia

    Press

    Julius Kravjar - University World News

    Today there are 39 higher education institutions and 250,000 students in Slovakia, which has a population of 5.4 million. In 2008 only two higher education institutions were using plagiarism detection systems. The situation was serious and required a solution. The Ministry of Education decided to launch a systematic fight against plagiarism. A goal was set: by 2010 it would be obligatory for all Slovak institutions to use the national central repository for theses and dissertations (NCRTD) and the national plagiarism detection system (NPDS).

  • Anticorruption at the crossroads

    NGOs, development organizations, and governments alike now universally refer to corruption - no longer a taboo subject - as a developmental problem. As the awareness-raising phase of the 1990s subsides, the focus is shifting to implementation of...

    Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (Hungary)

    Budapest, LGI/OSI Budapest, 2004

  • Corruption in Slovakia: results of diagnostic surveys

    This report presents the finding of a diagnostic study of corruption in Slovakia prepared at the request of the Government of the Slovak Republic by the World Bank and USAID. For the study, the survey research firm "Focus" was selected in a tender to...

    Anderson, James

    Washington D.C., World Bank, 2002

  • Fighting corruption in post-communist states: lessons from practice

    Corruption is generally viewed as a scourge of post-communist economies and polities. A vast literature has not surprisingly appeared on the causes and nature of corruption in the countries of Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States...

    United Nations Development Programme Regional Support Centre (Slovakia)

    Bratislava, UNDP RSC, 2002

  • The Global corruption report 2001

    The 2001 Global corruption report concentrates on events in the period July 2000 to June 2001. It is based on Transparency International's definition of corruption as the misuse of entrusted power for private gain. This includes both public and...

    Transparency International

    Berlin, Transparency International (TI), 2001

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