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  • Ethics and corruption in education: an overview

    Recent surveys suggest that leakage of funds from ministries of education to schools represent more than 80 per cent of the total sums allocated for non salary expenditures in some countries; bribes and payoffs in teacher recruitment and promotion...

    Hallak, Jacques, Poisson, Muriel

    2005

  • Newspaper

    Degrees for sale: corruption scandal engulfs Russia's leading university

    Russian Federation

    Press

    - The Independent UK

    The rector of the Moscow State University of Culture and the Arts is alleged to have handed out 130 "false" law degrees between 2001 and 2004 in exchange for bribes worth RUR300,000. Estimates of how much students pay teachers and academics in bribes every year range from RUR250m to RUR300m.

  • Newspaper

    China arrests teachers over exam cheating allegations

    China

    Press

    - The Associated Press

    Corruption is a widespread problem; exam cheating is on the rise with technologies such as cell phones.

  • Newspaper

    Teachers receive $30,000 in raises for fake degrees

    Liberia

    Press

    - CNN

    A school may demand that six teachers repay nearly $ 30,000 in pay raises they received after obtaining fake degrees from an online school.

  • Newspaper

    Corruption wins over schools

    Cameroon

    Press

    - Le Quotidien Mutations

    The children know that they can pay to get better marks. Other methods are also familiar such as sale of diplomas, « correction » of the mark report or embezzlement of school money by the teachers.

  • Newspaper

    Nepal cracks down on fake degrees

    Nepal

    Press

    - Chronicle of Higher Education

    Nepal's anticorruption commission says that tens of thousands of government employees, including teachers, police, and senior bureaucrats, have been using fake university degrees. The Commission for Investigation on Abuse of Authority says it suspects that 10 percent of the Himalayan kingdom's 140,000 schoolteachers are using diplomas purchased from India.

  • Combating academic fraud: Towards a culture of integrity

    This book documents the importance and extent of academic fraud. It identifies major varieties of academic fraud such as cheating in high stakes examinations, plagiarism, credentials fraud, and misconduct in reform policies. Examples of measures to...

    Eckstein, Max A.

    Paris, UNESCO, 2003

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