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In China, Bribery and Fakery Lower the Value of Degrees

01.08.2002 China

Press

- Chronicle of Higher Education

Corruption in admissions procedure, the sitting of exams and the allocation of scholarships is rampant in Chinese universities. One positive outcome of a recent plagiarism scandal is the design of a code of conduct for students and professors by Beijing's University.
Israeli Officials Questioned on Fraud

11.12.2001 Israel

Press

Laurie Copans - Associated Press Writer

Israel grants government workers 10 to 20% pay increases for every advanced degree they earn; and as a result, dozens of civil servants, including top education officials, have been put under investigation for obtaining fake degrees.
Fraud and education: the worm in the apple

Dishonesty and chicanery are nothing new to education. What is new, perhaps, are the ways in which these imperfections permeate education credentialing and how they have flourished with the invention of new technologies and changes in consumer...

Noah, Harold J., Eckstein, Max A.

Lanham (Md.), Rowman & Littlefield, 2001
Corruption in the system of education in Slovak republic: special focus on corruption in Universities

Published by the Ministry of Education and focusing on two corruption cases in universities, this paper examines corruption in the education system in Slovakia. In the first, a student paid 100,000 Slovak crowns for acceptance into a course of study...

Sedlakova, Lucia

Prague, Transparency International Czech Republic, IACC Council, 2000
Con trampa y con cartón: el fraude en la educación, o cómo la corrupción también se aprende

Chuletas, plagios o soplos forman parte del paisaje escolar cotidiano. El artículo propone una categorización sistemática de este tipo de fraude, con prácticas integradas de lleno en la cultura estudiantil, fruto de la tendencia a una creciente...

Moreno, Juan Manuel

1999
Something up the sleeve: fraud in education, or the learning of corruption

This article deals with the low profile issue of educational fraud. The author defines educational fraud in terms of a range of illegitimate practices in which students engage in order to inflate their recorded levels of academic performance. Four...

Moreno, J. M.

1999