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  • Newspaper

    Bribery and laundering charges reveal accreditation mess

    Chile

    Press

    María Elena Hurtado - World University News

    The former president of Chile's National Accreditation Commission (NCA) and two former university rectors have been jailed on charges of bribery and money laundering. They will spend at least six months in prison, which is how long the Public Prosecution Office has said it will take to investigate the charges.

  • Video

    Private tutoring

    USA

    Video

    PERIGlobal -

    Private supplementary tutoring in pre-university education is defined as tutoring in academic subjects provided by tutors for financial gain in addition to the provision of mainstream schooling. A researcher from Lehigh University raises concerns about private tutoring and provides examples of situations where it is not used to complement mainstream schooling but instead replaces it.

  • Newspaper

    McGill hospital project suspected of corruption

    Canada

    Press

    Patrick McDonagh - University World News

    McGill University Health Centre, a joint university and teaching hospital, has issued a terse statement, confirming that 12 officers of Quebec's Unité permanente anti-corruption raided its offices as part of a wide-ranging investigation into corruption in the province's construction industry.

  • Newspaper

    "We make your papers go away": Website has unemployed profs writing students' essays

    Canada

    Press

    Karen Seidman - National Post

    An associate dean of academic services spends a lot of time studying, lamenting and worrying about cheating in universities, but a Montreal-based online service that propels the activity to a new level made even her wince. The website unemployedprofessors.com has teachers writing papers for students. "So you can play while we make your papers go away" is its tag line.

  • Newspaper

    Sunnyvale university CEO indicted on visa fraud charges

    USA

    Press

    Lisa M. Krieger and Molly Vorwerck - Mercury News

    Striking a blow at a Silicon Valley school that attracted foreigners with student visas, federal agents raided Sunnyvale's Herguan University and charged its CEO with visa fraud. The charges come a year after an investigation found Herguan was among a group of Bay Area schools that misrepresented information on federal applications, which allowed them to sponsor overseas students for coveted visas.

  • Newspaper

    Feds to crack down on fraud, human trafficking among international students

    Canada

    Press

    Tobi Cohen - Global News

    The federal government wants to toughen the rules surrounding student visas in the hopes of cracking down on fraud and human smuggling — even though it's not clear just how big a problem this is. There is a proposal to weed out international students who arrive on a student visa as a means of gaining access to Canada's labour market and don't actually enrol in school. There are also concerns that some are ending up at sub-par institutions that ultimately hurt Canada's credibility on the international stage.

  • Newspaper

    Report confirming educational profiteering in Chilean universities rejected

    Chile

    Press

    Mariana Zepeda - Ilovechile

    The Chilean government's Lower House has rejected the findings of a report investigating allegations of educational profiteering in seven private universities. Student leaders and opposition politicians criticized this ruling, claiming that the government must not ignore illegal educational profiteering in Chile.

  • Newspaper

    For-profit education in Chile: The debate within the debate

    Chile

    Press

    Nick Lavars - Americas Quarterly

    A seven-month investigation revealed that a number of Chile's universities are illegally operating as profit-oriented businesses. According to a report conducted by a special investigation committee, eight universities violated anti-profiteering laws amidst findings of increased salaries among executives, circulation of finances between companies under the same private ownership and outsourcing of services as means of generating revenue.

  • Newspaper

    Online classes see cheating go high-tech

    USA

    Press

    Jeffrey R. Young - Chronicle of Higher Education

    Easy A's may be even easier to score these days, with the growing popularity of online courses. Technologically advanced students are finding ways to cheat that let them ace online courses with minimal effort, in ways that are difficult to detect.

  • 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.

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