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  • Newspaper

    There is a bigger problem than bogus or fake universities

    UK

    Press

    Stephen A Hunt - University World News

    There have been several institutions located in the UK illegally operating under the title ‘university’. The ‘free universities’ like the Ragged University and Free University Brighton (FUB) offer courses generally sustained through free labor, which means they are unlikely to prove enduring. According to the Minister of immigration, the government had “struck off nearly 900 bogus colleges” which operate as portals for illegal immigrants. A Norwich couple was found guilty of fraudulently running the British Nutrition Council and the International Distance College, which defrauded around 900 individuals.

  • Newspaper

    80% of tutoring courses are under the table

    France

    Press

    Quentin Périnel - Le Figaro

    Meet in Class is a start-up that wants to simplify tutoring: four students share the price for a tutoring course. According to its founder, in France, tutoring represents a market of 2.5 billion euros of recognized courses, but 80% of the courses are paid under the table. The prices of courses offered through a "classic" agency cost between 40 and 50 euros per hour, a price considered too expensive for parents

  • Newspaper

    Parcoursup : the Human Rights Defender wants the university's sorting criteria to be published

    France

    Press

    Wally Bordas - Le Figaro étudiant

    Despite the many requests from different organizations, universities keep secret their criteria for sorting each training course. The Human Rights Defender believes that the request of many trade unions for more transparency in the Parcoursup procedure will not undermine the "principles of the jury's sovereignty and the secrecy of its deliberations". He also recommends that the Minister of Higher Education make sure that candidates have all the information they need regarding the way their application is being processed.

  • OECD Reviews of integrity in education: Ukraine 2017

    Education in Ukraine is marked by integrity violations from early childhood education and care through postgraduate study. In the past decade policy makers and civic organisations have made progress in addressing these challenges. However, much...

    OECD

    2017

  • Strengthening integrity and fighting corruption in education: Serbia

    This first Integrity of Education Systems (INTES) country assessment was undertaken at the request of the Ministry of Education and Science of Serbia, following presentations of the assessment methodology to the Steering Group of the OECD Anti...

    Milovanovitch, Mihaylo, Bloem, Simone, Checchi, Francesco, Devine, Vera, Kalnins, Valts, McGuinness, Séamus, Poisson, Muriel, Roberts-Schweitzer, Eluned, Whitman, Ian

    Paris, OECD, 2012

  • Higher education reforms in the fight against corruption in Georgia

    This article discusses the nature of corruption in higher education, the extent of higher education corruption in Georgia and the policy reforms aimed at lowering its incidence. The article addresses the issue of corruption in relation to access...

    Orkodashvili, Mariam

    2010

  • Corruption hierarchies in higher education in the former Soviet Bloc

    Corruption in higher education is known but not described theoretically. Decentralization and privatization of higher education and the increasing scale and scope of corruption in higher education in the former Soviet Bloc, as well as numerous other...

    Osipian, Ararat L.

    2009

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