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  • Newspaper

    Teachers and taxis: corruption in the education sector in Honduras

    Honduras

    Press

    Alessandra Fontana - U4

    Honduras invests large sums in education, but powerful teachers' unions and political appointments hinder reforms in a sector vulnerable to corruption and lacking of civil society monitoring. There are 50,000 teachers in the country; between 2,500 and 6,000 of them have pending issues about their posts (such as irregular paid leaves or unjustified absence while still on the payroll). For current decentralization plans to impact positively on education services, local auditing skills need to be improved, parents must be given a bigger role, and unions must adhere to codes of conduct.

  • Declaration on professional ethics

    This declaration represents an individual and collective commitment by teachers and all others involved in education. It is complementary to the laws, statutes, rules and programmes that define the practice of the profession. It is also a tool that...

    Education International (Belgium)

    Brussels, Education International, 2001

  • Ethics and local councillors: modernising standards of conduct

    The question of ethics has emerged as a major theme in government and public management. It reflects a critical assessment of the impact of market-inspired reforms on the public sector during the past two decades and the emergence of a new...

    Skelcher, C., Snape, S.

    Oxford, 2001

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