1-10 of 116 results

  • Newspaper

    Corruption is rampant in Northern education

    Sri Lanka

    Press

    - Time News

    The vice-president of the Ceylon Teachers Union has accused the Northern Province of misleading the education administration into corruption and bribery for years. Governors had been informed on several occasions about malpractices and abuses that took place in primary schools and notorious girls’ schools in Jaffna without any action being taken.

  • Newspaper

    Education minister sets up panel to probe TET fraud

    India

    Press

    - The Indian Express

    Maharashtra State Council of Examination Commissioner and two other accomplices were arrested for alleged involvement in malpractices in the Teachers Eligibility Test. The fraud committed was worth Rs 4.25 crore, and the candidates were asked to pay Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh for passing the exam. A committee headed by Education Chief Secretary has been constituted to thoroughly investigate the case.

  • Newspaper

    Education in Sindh

    India

    Press

    Abdul Wahab Magsi - The Express Tribune

    Poverty, the rising rate of early dropouts, ghost schools and teachers, low pass rates in the JEST test for primary school teachers are just some of the factors at the heart of the education crisis in Sindh. The biometric mechanism put in place by the Sindh government proved to be counterproductive and has failed to compel ghost teachers to attend school: 6.5 million children are currently out of school.

  • Newspaper

    Study finds corruption everywhere

    Bangladesh

    Press

    Tanzil Rahaman - New Age

    A study by Transparency International Bangladesh found secondary-level education activities, including recruitment of teachers and inclusion in the monthly pay order, plagued with widespread corruption and irregularities. To be appointed as assistant headmaster or headmaster, one needs to pay Tk 5,000 - 1 lakh bribe or Tk 3.5-15 lakh to be included in the monthly pay order. The study also found a lack of accountability in different administrative works of education officials who did not attend office in time and regularly.

  • Newspaper

    Probe reveals fraud at Baltimore school

    USA

    Press

    Liz Bowie - The Washington Post

    An investigation at Baltimore city school found that administrators schemed to inflate enrollment, pressured teachers to change grades and scheduled students into classes that didn’t exist. Over a three-year period, about 100 students remained on the rolls but didn’t attend the school. The school operated evening and summer courses designed to allow students to make up credits, but the courses didn’t meet standards. In some cases, unqualified teachers were assigned to teach the classes, and in other cases, staff members were named as teachers of record for a class they never taught.

  • Newspaper

    Exams: teachers are the biggest cheats

    Uganda

    Press

    Yudaya Nangonzi & Ernest Jjingo - All Africa

    Authorities at the national examination body Uneb accused teachers of orchestrating a grand scheme in schools, that pushed pupils to cheat on the 2020 primary leaving exams. The board withheld the results of 2,220 candidates pending completion of investigations into malpractices. Cheating occurs in a number of ways, including parents, in some of the top schools being asked to commit to paying a fee in order for their children to receive good results in the primary leaving exam.

  • Newspaper

    Remote cheating leads to ‘corona degrees’ in Greece

    Greece

    Press

    Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP - Study International

    Examination standards are virtually impossible to reinforce in a distance-learning environment where hundreds of students are simultaneously online. The Dean of the University of Crete’s literature department reports that it is easy for students to Google exam answers even under the eye of supervisors on camera. A 20- year-old student said that one of her friends gave 100 euros to a teacher to sit for her math exam. Similarly, a 20-year-old psychology student took exams on behalf of 2 of her friends and nobody realized.

  • Newspaper

    Government suspends fraudulent Kwekwe High School teacher

    Zimbabwe

    Press

    Michael Magoronga - Chronicle

    Two Kwekwe High School teachers have been suspended after they allegedly asked parents for money to secure Form One places for their children. The matter only became public on the school's opening day, when the school authorities discovered that there was an extra class of 30 students, prompting the headmaster to launch an investigation.

  • Newspaper

    Probe into subsidies fraud

    Thailand

    Press

    Chakrapan Natanri - Bangkokpost

    A senior teacher in Khon Kaen is accused of being involved in corruption over two government payment schemes, after 38 villagers from Ban Fang district's Ban complained that she had offered them 200 baht each to claim handouts in the We Travel Together tourism stimulus package. When the villagers tried to register for benefits under the "Rao Chana" (We Win) scheme, they found out their identities had already been used to register them for the Kon La Krueng co-payment subsidy scheme.

  • Pre-service teachers’ ethical role construction in China

    This study examines pre-service teachers’ construction of ethical roles in teaching practice in China. This study finds that three major changes emerged in pre-service teachers’ understanding of teacher ethics after teaching practice: viewing caring...

    Ye, Wangbei, Wu, Pingyi, Zhanga, Miaomiao, Jia, Yushan, Zou, Jiachen

    Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2021

Stay informed About Etico

Sign up to the ETICO bulletin to receive the latest updates

Submit your content

Help us grow our library by sharing your content on corruption in education.