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  • Transparency International Global Corruption Report on education

    News

    Corruption and poor governance are acknowledged as major impediments to realising the right to education and to reaching global development goals. Corruption not only distorts access to education but affects the quality of education and the reliability of research findings.

  • Strategies and responses to plagiarism in Slovakia

    The rapid increase in the number of higher education institutions (HEI), students, ICT and internet penetration after 1989 and a low level of copyright and intellectual property rights awareness contributed to the growth of plagiarism at HEIs in...

    Kravjar, Július, Noge, Juraj

    2013

  • Barrier to thriving plagiarism

    Plagiarism is a phenomenon that existed in the past, exists today and will exist in the future. Slovakia with its population of 5.4 million is confronted with theses and dissertation plagiarism like other countries. The rapid growth in the number of...

    Kravjar, Julius

    Washington, D.C., EDC, 2012

  • Le Plagiat étudiant

    Les médias traitent souvent du plagiat chez les écrivains, les musiciens ou les universitaires. Cette pratique concerne aussi les étudiants dont 34,5% auraient déjà recopié tout ou partie d'un texte pour le présenter comme personnel dans le cadre d...

    Guibert, Pascal, Michaut, Christophe

    2011

  • Newspaper

    Rampant cheating hurts research ambitions

    China

    Press

    Gillian Wong - Associated Press

    When professors need to author research papers to get promoted, many turn to Ghost Writers, writes Gillian Wong for Associated Press.

  • Newspaper

    University to sack drunk, unproductive lecturers

    Uganda

    Press

    Francis Kagolo - The New Vision

    Makerere University has established a new policy that provides for the sacking of lecturers over drunkenness, writes Francis Kagolo for The New Vision. The policy, which seeks to boost academic standards, also requires lecturers to teach for a minimum of 10 hours a week and provide evidence that they carry out research.

  • Corruption and education

    The booklet deals with the issue of corruption in the education sector. It defines corruption in its various manifestation and magnitude. It refers to a number of factors, particularly the international conventions, various research works and various...

    Poisson, Muriel

    Paris, UNESCO, 2010

  • Corruption in China's higher education system: a malignant tumor

    Since the 1990s, corruption has seriously threatened mainland China's universities in their teaching, research, service to society, and international links and exchanges. The scale of corruption pertains to almost all aspects of higher education. Yet...

    Yang, Rui

    Chestnut Hill, MA, USA, Center for International Higher Education, 2005

  • Newspaper

    The question of corruption in academe

    Press

    Philip G. Altbach - International Higher Education

    Corruption in higher education is not a topic much discussed in academic circles. Yet, corruption in various manifestations is an element of higher education in many parts of the world. It is time to open a discussion of the meaning and scope of corruption since it seems to be an expanding phenomenon, especially in parts of the world facing severe economic hardships. Academic institutions in these countries come under extreme pressure to provide access and degrees to ensure success in difficult economic circumstances.

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