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Papua New Guinea - Public Expenditure and Service Delivery Survey 2002, a survey of 220 schools

This survey is part of a multi-country pilot study which combines surveys of primary schools with household and other micro surveys to assess service delivery systems in education, measure performance, and establish a baseline for examining the...

World Bank, 2004
China arrests teachers over exam cheating allegations

20.06.2004 China

Press

- The Associated Press

Corruption is a widespread problem; exam cheating is on the rise with technologies such as cell phones.
Roll call: teacher absence in Bangladesh

This study represents the first systematic examination of the issue of teacher absence in Bangladesh. The objectives of this study are to: (a) document and characterize the extent of teacher absence in primary and secondary schools; (b) understand...

Chaudhury, Nazmul, Hammer, Jeffrey, Kremer, Michael, Mularidharan, Khartik, Rogers, F. Halsey

2004
Teacher absence in India: a snapshot

25% of teachers were absent from school, and only about half were teaching, during unannounced visits to a nationally representative sample of government primary schools in India. Absence rates varied from 15% in Maharashtra to 42% in Jharkhand, with...

Chaudhury, Nazmul, Hammer, Jeffrey, Rogers, F. Halsey, Kremer, Michael, Mularidharan, Khartik

2004
When teachers are absent: where do they go and what is the impact on students?

Recent studies on education service delivery, including the World Development Report 2004 published by the World Bank, have begun to focus on the problem of teacher absenteeism. This report provides an overview of the results of a survey on primary...

Akhmadi, Syaikhu Usman, Suryadarma, Daniel

2004
Improving student performance in public primary schools in developing countries: evidence from Indonesia

This paper investigates the correlates of student performance in mathematics and dictation tests among schoolchildren in Indonesia. This is the first such study to use a new nationally representative sample of Indonesian primary-school students. Our...

Suryadarma, Daniel, Suryahadi, Asep, Sumarto, Sudarno, Rogers, F. Halsey

2004
Central Asia: buying ignorance – Corruption touches many different lives

06.07.2003

Press

Bruce Pannier - RFE/RL

Low wages and lax standards have created a vicious cycle: teachers and school administrators demand bribes; parents feel they can't refuse.
Nepal cracks down on fake degrees

06.02.2003 Nepal

Press

- Chronicle of Higher Education

Nepal's anticorruption commission says that tens of thousands of government employees, including teachers, police, and senior bureaucrats, have been using fake university degrees. The Commission for Investigation on Abuse of Authority says it suspects that 10 percent of the Himalayan kingdom's 140,000 schoolteachers are using diplomas purchased from India.
KICAC annual report 2002 (summary)

The Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption was founded in January 2002 following the enactment of the Anti-Corruption Act in 2001, which was a response to a national call to root out corruption. It aims at ultimately shifting from the...

Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption

Seoul, KICAC, 2003
Adverse effects of private supplementary tutoring: dimensions, implications and government responses

Bray Mark

2003 84p.

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