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How to buy a fake degree

29.11.2011 UK

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Mail&Guardian -

A Mail and Guardian reporter reveals the growing trend of fake degrees through her investigation. More specifically, Ashford University and Belford University offer life experience degrees, where qualifications can be obtained solely through the payment of a fee, without any training or studying required. These documents are available online and are being included on CVs across all levels of the employment sector.
Daily lives and corruption: public opinion in Southern Africa

Between 2010 and 2011, more than 6000 people were interviewed in six Southern African countries - the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe - on their views of corruption levels in their countries...

Transparency International

Berlin, TI, 2011
Civil society and control of corruption: assessing governance of Romanian public universities

Romania is perceived as the most corrupt EU member state according to Transparency International Corruption Perception Index. In 2008-2009, a grassroots coalition of civil society organizations and education stakeholders created the Coalition for...

Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina, Dusu, Andra Elena

2011
A Practical guide to social audit as a participatory tool to strengthen democratic governance, transaprency and accountability

This Practical Guide analyzes social auditing experiences around the world and extracts important lessons to provide practical guidance to those who wish to consider support for social audit initiatives. It examines the required elements for the...

Berthin, Gerardo

Panama, UNDP, 2011
Mapping transparency, accountability and integrity in primary education in South Africa

Transparency and Integrity in Service Delivery in Africa (TISDA) is a three-year, seven-country program implemented by Transparency International that started in 2008 and will conclude in 2011. It seeks to support civil society in seven African...

Transparency International

Berlin, TI, 2011
Corruption, attitudes, and education: survey evidence from Nepal

Social norms can reduce the costs of corrupt behavior and push a society toward a high-corruption equilibrium, but what determines individual attitudes toward corruption? How does acceptance vary across different types of corrupt behavior? An...

Truex, Rory

2011
UK: Cheating epidemic at Britain's universities

12.03.2011 UK

Press

David Barrett - The Telegraph

A survey of more than 80 universities has revealed that academic misconduct is soaring at institutions across the country. More than 17,000 incidents of cheating were recorded by universities in the 2009-10 academic year – up at least 50% in four years.
The economic impact of corruption

28.02.2011

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Cranfiels School of Management -

A professor of International Management and Economics explains the economic cost of corruption, then talks about the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), an index which ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys.
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
Public Expenditure Tracking Survey : Afghanistan - Education sector: Synthesis Report

The Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) looked at four components essential to the strengthening and development of the education sector in Afghanistan: 1) the payment of staff salaries; 2) the availability and use of an operations and...

World Bank

Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2011

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