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Ending corruption in education in Sierra Leone

25.06.2006 Sierra Leone

Press

Max Katta - CARL

Sierra Leonean civil society activists are working to improve accountability. The National Accountability Group (NAG) – the local chapter of Transparency International – used a Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) to find out what had happened to school fee subsidies and learning materials designated for a sample of 28 schools in a rural district. NAG's survey came after an earlier Ministry of Finance PETS revealed startling figures about education corruption. In 2002 researchers found that 45.1 percent of the funds for school fees subsidies were unaccounted for and that nearly 28 percent of teaching and learning materials had disappeared.
Nigerian students to be schooled in corruption

03.07.2004 Nigeria

Press

Festus Eriye - Sunday Times

An independent commission promotes an anti-corruption curriculum to be taught in schools and universities.
Approvisionnement en livres scolaires: vers plus de transparence. Afrique francophone

Les dépenses consacrées aux manuels scolaires et aux matériels pédagogiques, pour le seul enseignement de base et pour l'ensemble de l'Afrique francophone, atteignent un peu plus de 500 milliards de francs CFA pour la dernière décennie. Une telle...

Leguéré, Jean-Pierre

Paris, UNESCO, 2003
Adverse effects of private supplementary tutoring: dimensions, implications and government responses

Private supplementary tutoring has long been a major phenomenon in some parts of East Asia, particularly Japan, the Republic of Korea and Taiwan. In recent decades it has grown significantly in both industrialized and less developed societies. This...

Bray, Mark

Paris, UNESCO, 2003
Approvisionnement en livres scolaires : vers plus de transparence

Les dépenses consacrées aux manuels scolaires et aux matériels pédagogiques, pour le seul enseignement de base et pour l'ensemble de l'Afrique francophone, atteignent un peu plus de 500 milliards de francs CFA pour la dernière décennie. Une telle...

Leguéré, Jean-Pierre

Paris, UNESCO, 2003
Corruption said to be flourishing in education

12.10.2001 Ghana, Kazakhstan, Poland

Press

- Prague Conference News

Ghana. Kazakhstan. Poland: In many countries, teachers must bribe their way into teacher-training college. Some then collect their salaries and do not actually teach; when they do, they demand bribes for students to pass exams. "Textbook racket" is also a common practice.
Corruption in education systems in developing countries: what it is doing to the young

Presented during 10th International Anti-Corruption Conference at a workshop on "Attacking corruption in education systems: what is it doing to our young?", this paper focuses on five typical occurrences of corruption: (i) absenteeism, where teachers...

Bennet, Nicholas

Prague, IACC, 2001
Accountability in primary education: CIET social audits: Costa Rica, Nepal, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Uganda

Asked if they like primary school, the children who manage to get there usually say "yes". But their eyes darken as they start to talk about the "daily demand for money for invisible things" in exchange for an education.CIET social audits of Primary...

New York, CIET, 2001

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