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  • Newspaper

    A struggle to shake off the Soviet era mindset

    Ukraine

    Press

    Brendan O'Malley - University World News

    The minister for education and science is attempting to implement widespread reforms in a country where establishing university autonomy requires dismantling the legacy of Soviet-era state control, where raising quality requires overcoming widespread corruption and where conflict has uprooted 28 institutions.

  • Government favouritism in Europe

    This volume reunites the fieldwork of 2014-2015 in the ANTICORRP project. It is entirely based on objective indicators and offers both quantitative and qualitative assessments of the linkage between political corruption and organised crime using...

    Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina

    Opladen, Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2015

  • Newspaper

    German Defence Minister denies plagiarism

    Germany

    Press

    - BBC News

    The German Defence Minister has denied claims she plagiarised parts of her doctoral thesis after a crowd-sourced plagiarism hunting website claimed to have found "elements of plagiarism" on 27 of the 62 pages of her 1990 dissertation.

  • Newspaper

    Politician stumbles over lost test papers

    Germany

    Press

    Michael Gardner - University World News

    A leading North Rhine-Westphalian politician has been caught up in a scandal over a botched-up seminar test. The Christian Democrat failed to observe correct procedures for test papers as a visiting lecturer at RWTH Aachen University.

  • Newspaper

    Cheating on final exams up by 10% in 2014

    France

    Press

    - Le Figaro

    A sign of the times, cheating comes down to glancing at your smartphone during an exam, or copy-pasting whole sections of texts found on the Internet. Attempts to cheat on final exams increased by 10% in 2014, when compared to 2013, according to National Education Ministry statistics.

  • Higher education corruption in Ukraine: opinions and estimates

    Corruption in Ukrainian higher education in is a proven fact. While corruption is being addressed at the admissions level by the introduction of standardized tests, more needs to be done to tackle a problem that exists all through the system. This...

    Osipian, Ararat L.

    Chestnut Hill, MA, USA, Center for International Higher Education, 2015

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