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  • Newspaper

    Pandor vows to act on university racism report

    South Africa

    Press

    Sue Blaine - All Africa

    The committee set up in March last year by the Education Minister to investigate racism and sexism in higher education has revealed that discrimination was pervasive despite all the good policies generated by the institutions. The committee believes that the racism persists in higher education mostly because of the weakness of the institutions' information dissemination: it recommended the creation of a transformation compact which will help to oversight the institutions to sensitize staff to the different needs of students from various cultural and economic backgrounds.

  • Newspaper

    Causes of corruption concerning girls in schools

    Côte d'Ivoire

    Press

    Ablan Anne-Marie, N'Dasso Flore Ben-Bac, Kouakou Armand, Konan Ettien, Bende - Rocare

    Compared to boys, girls are more exposed to corrupt practices, especially girls within the 15-19 age group. Eradicating the phenomenon through the increase of public awareness and the creation of units to fight corruption in schools is the challenge facing educational authorities.

  • Newspaper

    Top universities break rules on gender discrimination

    China

    Press

    Yojana Sharma - University World News

    Around two-thirds of China's top research universities still have policies that can be used to limit the proportion of women students, despite tighter government regulations issued this year against gender discrimination in universities and the workplace.

  • Combatting corruption in education on a global front

    Muriel Poisson

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  • The Global corruption report 2006

    The 2006 Global corruption report focuses on corruption and health. It includes expert reports on: the risks of corruption in different health care systems; the scale of the problem: from high-level corruption in Costa Rica to counterfeit medicines...

    Transparency International

    Berlin, TI, 2006

  • Gender and corruption: testing the new consensus

    The search for a sustainable anti-corruption strategy has seen a number of reform ideas introduced into the public sector of many African countries by the development community. But the failure of previous anti-corruption strategies has led to the...

    Alhassan-Alolo, Namawu

    2007

  • Political cleaners: How women are the new anti-corruption force

    This paper explores the emergence of the myth of women's lesser propensity than men to engage in corrupt activity. It shows that the notion that women are more likely to behave with probity and integrity, is ironically the reverse of a myth that has...

    Goetz, Anne Marie

    Oxford, Blackwell publishing, 2007

  • Follow the money

    This toolkit follows the transfer of public funds from central to local governments until they reach users such as schools and clinics. It explains how a public expenditure tracking system operates and how it can benefit marginalized groups. With...

    Hakikazi Catalyst, REPOA, TGNP

    Tanzania, LGWG, 2008

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