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  • Newspaper

    Bad marks, Bihar: Fake school certificate scam highlights educational crisis across India

    India

    Press

    - Times of India

    In the latest education scam from Bihar, it appears that students can purchase top-scoring intermediate certificates for around Rs 5 lakh without even having to write the exam. Moreover, many schools and colleges have been getting their affiliations by improper means. All these skeletons are tumbling out in the light of probes launched after a TV sting found this year’s top-scoring students struggling to answer basic questions about their subjects. Most memorably, one top student said that political science is about cooking. The rot in the state of education has certainly been a long time cooking.

  • Newspaper

    A national system to prevent plagiarism is working

    Slovakia

    Press

    Julius Kravjar - University World News

    Today there are 39 higher education institutions and 250,000 students in Slovakia, which has a population of 5.4 million. In 2008 only two higher education institutions were using plagiarism detection systems. The situation was serious and required a solution. The Ministry of Education decided to launch a systematic fight against plagiarism. A goal was set: by 2010 it would be obligatory for all Slovak institutions to use the national central repository for theses and dissertations (NCRTD) and the national plagiarism detection system (NPDS).

  • The Academic Integrity Rating System (AIRS): an introduction

    The Academic Integrity Rating System (AIRS) is modeled after the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS). The purpose of AIRS is to: - identify...

    International Center for Academic Integrity

    2012

  • Diploma and accreditation mills: new trends in credential abuse

    This report investigates the new generation of bogus universities, taking a closer look at the involvement of bogus colleges in immigration scams and the phenomenon of online high school diploma mills. It also looks back at the year's developments in...

    Ben Cohen, Eyal, Winch, Rachel

    Bedford, 2011

  • Pourquoi les étudiants trichent-ils?

    Fréquemment dénoncée, fortement médiatisée, la tricherie scolaire semble avoir connu un tournant majeur avec les "fuites" au baccalauréat S en 2011. Alors même que les sanctions "officielles", celles qui sont prononcées par les conseils ou les...

    Guibert, Pascal, Michaut, Christophe

    2011

  • Newspaper

    Class 8-9 students caught answering under-graduate exam

    India

    Press

    - Gaea Times

    Education found that students of Class 8 and 9 were answering question papers at an under-graduate exam in Azamgarh district with the help of invigilators. The investigators have also known that the students have taken money from the original aspirants who had paid them to get the paper solved.

  • Transparency in education in Eastern Europe

    In the former communist countries, education could become the key element for combating corrupt behaviour and promoting integrity and ethics. Possible strategies include establishing clear and transparent systems of budgeting, auditing, examination...

    Pliksnys, Arunas, Kopnicka, Sylvia, Hrynevych, Lilya, Palicarsky, Constantine

    Paris, UNESCO, 2009

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