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  • Newspaper

    Auditor for schools in Roslyn is charged

    USA

    Press

    Janon Fisher - The New York Times

    An auditor has been charged for having changed business records in an effort to help conceal the theft of more than $11 million. The district superintendent is accused of stealing more than $2 million; the assistant superintendent for $4 million and a former school accounting clerk for $780,000. Money shall have been used on artwork, jewellery, foreign trips and home mortgages. The scandal that has resulted in a state-wide changes in the way school finances are audited.

  • Newspaper

    Audit: Curtail wake principals' power. An outside audit finds disparities in school resources that won't be easy to fix

    USA

    Press

    T. Keung Hui and Kinea White Epps - News & Observer

    According to a report elaborated by auditors from a nonprofit group based in Indiana, County principals have too much power and should be reined in to improve education in the school district. In order to avoid disparities, auditors have recommended limiting principal's powers and holding them for accountable for mistakes, as well as determining which decisions can be made at school level and which must be made by the central office.

  • Newspaper

    Auditors rejecting AP courses syllabuses

    USA

    Press

    Jay Matthews - The Washington Post

    After being audited by the College Board's first quality-control of the Advance Placement program, some teachers have met with a surprising rejection of their courses. The results of the audit have rubbed the already bruised relationship between some high school AP teachers and the college professors who are evaluating them.

  • Newspaper

    Education department is urged to explain loan subsidy

    USA

    Press

    Jonathan Glater - The New York Times

    The Education department must explain why it let a student loan company that an audit had found improper millions of dollars. The loan company received the payments through a subsidy program that guaranteed a 9.5 percent interest rate on student loans. In an accord reached in January, the department allowed it to keep the $278 million it had received but suspended future payments of more than $800 million until a future audit could determine whether the company was eligible for the money.

  • Newspaper

    North Dakota Board of Higher Education tightens policies for international students

    USA

    Press

    Teri Finneman - Bakken Today

    The State Board of Higher Education is working to tighten admission policies for international students after an audit found some Chinese student transcripts submitted to Dickinson State University were fakes.

  • Combatting corruption in education on a global front

    Muriel Poisson

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  • Corrupt cities: a practical guide to cure and prevention

    The movement toward decentralization is gathering momentum. In this context, the important costs of corruption are being explicitly recognised, as is the urgent need to prevent corruption, raise city revenues, improve service delivery, stimulate...

    Klitgaard, Robert E., Maclean-Abaroa, Ronald, Parris, H. Lindsey

    Oakland (USA), ICS Press, 2000

  • The Global corruption report 2004

    The Global Corruption Report provides an overview of the state of corruption around the world in 2004. It covers national and international developments, institutional and legal changes and activities within both the private sector and civil society...

    Transparency International

    Berlin, Transparency International , 2004

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