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  • Open government in Indonesia

    A talk with IIEP researcher: Muriel Poisson on open government in education

    News

    The latest addition to IIEP’s series on Ethics and Corruption in Education is here! The new book, prepared under the guidance of Muriel Poisson, IIEP Programme Specialist, is the first in a new research project on open government in education. The book combines an in-depth conceptual overview with an initial analysis of projects already in place worldwide.

  • Redefining citizen-government boundaries: open government in education

    News

    Citizen participation has become an integral part of national and international anti-corruption programmes.

  • Newspaper

    Education activists make submission to Zondo Commission

    South Africa

    Press

    Jay-Dee Cyster - Politics web

    A number of senior officials in the Eastern Cape have been accused of corruption in relation to an R1 billion-school nutrition programme in the province; another case involves irregularities in relation to school infrastructure provisioning or allegations of corruption in the awarding of a contract to EduSolutions by the Limpopo Department of Education. The contract for the procurement of textbooks for schools in the province was canceled in 2012 after millions had been paid to EduSolutions.

  • Open government in education

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    As part of its 2018-2021 Medium-Term Strategy, the IIEP has launched a new research project to explore the emerging movement towards open government and its potential to improve transparency and accountability in the education sector.

  • Newspaper

    Two in court for R6m school feeding scheme fraud

    South Africa

    Press

    - enca

    Two people are in hot water after allegedly defrauding the Mpumalanga Department of Education of an estimated R6-million. The two appeared in the Nelspruit Regional Court on Thursday over their alleged involvement in a bogus school-feeding scheme. The Hawks said that in 2011 the accused allegedly submitted several fraudulent invoices to the Department of Education for services never rendered. An employee of the Department of Health allegedly recruited owners of various companies to submit these invoices. The money was allegedly deposited into the said businesses accounts, as well as individual accounts and was subsequently withdrawn and shared amongst the syndicate.

  • Video

    Unusual findings on corruption in school feeding in Colombia

    Colombia

    Video

    Noticias Caracol - Noticias Caracol

    There have been cases of corruption related to school feeding in the municipality of Santander in Colombia. The contract worth $30 million, intended for the children of Santander, was awarded to a company with no expertise in cooking or nutrition.

  • Combatting corruption in education on a global front

    Muriel Poisson

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  • Combating ghost schools and other forms of corruption in education

    Muriel Poisson

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  • Achieving transparency in pro-poor education incentives

    What are the best ways to ensure that scholarships, conditional cash transfers, free school meals, and so on, actually reach their intended beneficiaries? This book assumes that different models of design, targeting, and management of pro-poor...

    Poisson, Muriel

    Paris, UNESCO, 2014

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