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  • Newspaper

    Report finds fraud in for-profit education firms' recruiting

    USA

    Press

    Daniel de Vise - Washington Post

    A new government report on recruiting techniques in the for-profit higher education industry finds instances of college officials urging applicants to invent children and to hide their savings as a way to leverage more federal aid.

  • Newspaper

    Academic integrity framework on the way

    Malaysia

    Press

    - Bernama News agency

    An academic integrity framework will be introduced by the Higher Education Ministry to strengthen the integrity of academics, particularly lecturers, reports the national news agency Bernama.

  • Newspaper

    2010 The Academic Pork Barrel, 2010

    USA

    Press

    Doug Lederman - Inside Higher Ed

    Colleges, universities and other academic organizations received just shy of $2 billion in grants directed to them by individual members of Congress in the 2010 fiscal year, an Inside Higher Ed analysis shows. Earmarks are commonly derided as "pork barrel spending" because they are seen as attempts by legislators to keep their constituents happy (and voting for them).

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    Universities fail to tackle plagiarism

    China

    Press

    Yojana Sharma - University World News

    Universities are failing to crack down on plagiarism despite an unprecedented education ministry circular sent to them a year ago making them responsible for investigating and dealing with rampant cheating.

  • Newspaper

    Government plans to put degrees online, ease verification

    India

    Press

    Ravi , Pallavi and Sapna Krishnan, Singh, and Agarwal - The Wall Street Journal

    The government has appointed a task force to create a national database of academic qualifications to ensure confidentiality, authenticity, online verification and easy retrieval of degrees.

  • Newspaper

    Corruption scandals bury education reform

    Korea R

    Press

    Kang Shin-who - Korea Times

    Education policy and reform plans of the government administration are focusing on two key words: autonomy and competition. Now, these two words are rare commodities in the education sector, which is currently engulfed in a series of corruption scandals, well illustrated by the former top educator of Seoul.

  • Newspaper

    School risks closure over fee-paying courses

    Senegal

    Press

    Jane Marshal - University World News

    The Minister for Higher Education, Universities, Regional University Centres and Scientific Research, has threatened to close the Ecole Polytechnique de Thiès if lecturers continue to ignore a government order banning them from teaching fee-paying courses during the day, according to press reports.

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