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  • Newspaper

    I will not resign over fraud charge – Education Minister

    Kenya

    Press

    Sam Kiplagat - Daily Nation

    Nairobi — Higher Education minister has said he will not resign over a Sh96m fraud charge leveled against him in court.

  • Newspaper

    Anti-corruption rules for private institutions

    India

    Press

    Alya Mishra - University World News

    In a bid to encourage transparency and stamp out corruption and fraud in universities, India's education ministry is preparing guidelines that will for the first time force private higher education institutions to make their accounts public.

  • Newspaper

    Family fiefdoms blamed for tainting Italian universities

    Italy

    Press

    Michael Day - The Independent

    A new research shows the extent of nepotism in higher education. Overall, the country's higher institutions are 10 times more likely than other places of work to employ two or more members of the same family. This grip of family fiefdoms is blamed for a nationwide brain drain.

  • Dimensions of quality

    The report focusses on the quality of undergraduate education, and analyes the various dimensions of education quality to ascertain increases in resources to the universities in the UK based on the indicators of educational quality. It adapts Bigg's...

    Gibbs, Graham

    Heslington (UK), HEA, 2010

  • Newspaper

    Flood drowns out fake degrees scandal

    Pakistan

    Press

    Zofeen T Ebrahim - University World News

    As Pakistan's Election Commission began its first hearings into parliamentarians' fake degrees last week some feared the scandal had been pushed out of the limelight by the devastating floods. Nonetheless, the degree debacle is straining the credibility of the country's higher education and election systems.

  • Newspaper

    Fraudulent diplomas exposed

    Cameroon

    Press

    - University World News

    The commission in Cameroon responsible for assessing higher education qualifications issued abroad has exposed more than 300 cases of fraudulent diplomas, reported Quotidien Mutations info of Yaoundé.

  • Newspaper

    Report finds fraud in for-profit education firms' recruiting

    USA

    Press

    Daniel de Vise - Washington Post

    A new government report on recruiting techniques in the for-profit higher education industry finds instances of college officials urging applicants to invent children and to hide their savings as a way to leverage more federal aid.

  • Newspaper

    To stop cheats, colleges learn their trickery

    USA

    Press

    Steve Johnson - New York Times

    The frontier in the battle to defeat student cheating may be here at the testing center of the University of Central Florida. As the eternal temptation of students to cheat has gone high-tech – not just on exams, but also by cutting and pasting from the Internet and sharing of homework online like music files – educators have responded with their own efforts to crack down.

  • Newspaper

    Rising corruption threatens universities

    Russian Federation

    Press

    Eugene Vorotnikov - University World News

    The level of corruption in Russian universities is steadily growing despite the efforts of local authorities to eradicate it. According to rough estimates, bribes paid for admission to Russian universities in 2009 totalled $1 billion. This is 40% more than in 2007, with the average bribe rocketing to five times higher in just the last two years.

  • Newspaper

    Academic integrity framework on the way

    Malaysia

    Press

    - Bernama News agency

    An academic integrity framework will be introduced by the Higher Education Ministry to strengthen the integrity of academics, particularly lecturers, reports the national news agency Bernama.

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