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  • Newspaper

    Contracting out of education delivery'

    Press

    - Education Forum

    A report examining governments contracting for the delivery of education services finds a wide range of models have been implemented around the world. The report, 'Contracting for the delivery of education services: A typology and international examples', published by the Education Forum, states that educational services contracting can have many benefits such as raising the efficiency of service delivery and spending.

  • Governance in education: transparency and accountability

    This book presents an international review of initiatives aimed at improving transparency and accountability in the management of education in a variety of domains, including: education financing, teacher appointment and transfer, teacher conduct...

    Hallak, Jacques, Poisson, Muriel

    Paris, UNESCO, 2006

  • Sub-regional course on PETS: May 2006 - Accra - Ghana, Nigeria

    A sub-regional course on “Public expenditure tracking surveys (PETS) in education” was organised jointly by the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) and the World Bank Institute (WBI), from 22 to 26 March 2006 in Accra. This course...

    World Bank Institute

    Paris, IIEP, 2006

  • Corruption in emergency procurement

    Based on U4 Issue which aims to unpack and analyse the problem of corruption in aid-funded emergency procurement, for the purposes of mitigating risk. How and where does corruption typically occur, and what can be done?

    Schultz, Jessica, Søreide, Tina

    Bergen, Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2006

  • Uses and abuses of governance indicators

    Rapidly rising attention to the quality of governance in developing countries is driving explosive growth in the use of governance indicators by international investors, donors of official development assistance, development analysts and academics...

    Arndt, Christiane, Oman, Charles

    Paris, OECD, 2006

  • Governance matters V: governance indicators for 1999 to 2005

    This paper reports on the latest version of the worldwide governance indicators, covering 213 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance from 1996 until the end of 2005: voice and accountability, political stability and...

    Kaufmann, Daniel, Kraay, Aart, Mastruzzi, Massimo

    Washington, World Bank, 2006

  • Myths and realities of governance and corruption

    A number of popular notions and outright myths on governance and corruption are addressed in this chapter. We distinguish clearly between governance and anti-corruption, while probing the links between both notions. In so doing we challenge the...

    Kaufmann, Daniel

    Washington D.C., World Bank, 2005

  • Newspaper

    Latvia university operator gets jail time for selling degrees

    Israel, Latvia

    Press

    - Haarets/ World Education News & Reviews

    The head of an Israeli company that served as the Israeli branch of the University of Latvia and Burlington College was sentenced to 30 months in jail. He was accused of bribing members of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, and other public officials and also of selling degrees to public officials for promotion and pay-increase purposes.

  • Newspaper

    Government takes on bogus credentials

    Sweden, Australia

    Press

    - The National Agency for Higher Education/ World Education News & Reviews

    According to the study, "Fake Universities and Bogus Degrees – Sweden and the World", there has been an increase in the number of job seekers who have been caught trying to pass off fake degrees as genuine, with more than 30 cases reported in the last two years. According to the National Agency for Higher Education, there exists over 800 Web-based fake universities. The study recommends use of a digital database that employers can access to verify an applicant's qualifications, something into which Australia is already looking.

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