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  • Newspaper

    School head capitulates to audit directive

    Namibia

    Press

    Emma Kakololo - New Era

    A secondary school head teacher has finally allowed internal auditors from the regional education office to audit schoolbooks where money is reported to have gone missing. Apart from being barred from the school, the auditors were also threatened with legal action by the head teacher.

  • Newspaper

    Auditor for schools in Roslyn is charged

    USA

    Press

    Janon Fisher - The New York Times

    An auditor has been charged for having changed business records in an effort to help conceal the theft of more than $11 million. The district superintendent is accused of stealing more than $2 million; the assistant superintendent for $4 million and a former school accounting clerk for $780,000. Money shall have been used on artwork, jewellery, foreign trips and home mortgages. The scandal that has resulted in a state-wide changes in the way school finances are audited.

  • Newspaper

    Corrupt teachers under protection

    Kenya

    Press

    - Standard Online

    No action has been taken against a school accused for embezzling of over Sh7 million meant for buying a bus. No audit report had been conducted at the school for the last seven years as the school head had failed to submit the accounts.

  • Formula funding of schools, decentralization and corruption

    This book looks at the relationships between decentralization of funding for schools and the prevalence of corruption, a crucial concern for education policymakers today. The monograph is based on the assumption that formula funding acts to reduce...

    Levacic, Rosalind, Downes, Peter, Caldwell, Brian, Gurr, David, Spinks, Jim, Herczynski, Jan, Luce, Maria-Beatriz, Farenzena, Nalú

    Paris, UNESCO, 2004

  • Corruption, public investment, and growth

    Corruption, particularly political or "grand corruption", distorts the entire decision-making process connected with public investment projects. The degree of distorsions is higher with weaker auditing institutions. The evidence presented shows that...

    Tanzi, Vito, Davoodi, Hamid

    Washington, IMF, 1997

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