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This video, made by IIEP-UNESCO, aims to demonstrate the power of open data in education. It explores how can educational agents promote integrity and transparency in the education sector.  Open school data serves as a powerful way to integrate the entire educational community as it provides the public information such as school funding, number of students and teachers, school equipments and resources, textbooks, and test scores.

National Integrity Action Jamaica discusses the necessity of youth participation in the fight against corruption. Young people possess unique perspectives that can shed light on issues in innovative and new solutions. Also, youth can also break that continuity of corruption.

Cheating among students has reached unprecedented levels worldwide from academic misconduct among Britain's Russell Group universities from 2014 to 2017; ongoing cheating among student-athletes to enter or to stay at universities in the United States; unauthorized exam assignment sharing in Switzerland; contract cheating in Australia to plagiarism in many Eastern European countries. If universities just declare their integrity but do not practice it, they might not be able to expect it from students.

Early research findings on academic corruption suggest that accreditation and quality assurance bodies in some countries are having success in handling the problem, but questions about how to deal with the unwieldy issue remain a work in progress. And while the topic is complex and multifaceted, research on student attitudes towards cheating offers some insights into how an emphasis on integrity might reverse the problem, which has long been the scourge of the higher education accreditation profession.

It has been argued, that the way to address the problem of unethical student recruitment agencies is to ban them. But are all education agents inherently bad? No. Are there serious issues and potential pitfalls? Absolutely. Although the use of education agents is fraught with potential problems, it is possible to develop ways to address legitimate concerns related to the holy trinity of accountability, integrity and transparency.