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Corruption in higher education: policies and actions of accreditation and quality assurance bodies to counter

This report sets out the results from a study conducted during 2017-18 for the Council for Higher Education Accreditation / CHEA International Quality Group (CHEA/CIQG). This study builds on recommendations from the IIEP/UNESCO and CHEA/CIQG Advisory...

Glendinning, Irene, Orim, Stella-Maris, King, Andrew

Washington, D.C., Council for Higher Education Accreditation, 2019
Information and transparency: school report cards in sub-Saharan Africa

News

16.04.2019 A new publication from IIEP-UNESCO investigates the use and impact of school report cards in sub-Saharan Africa as a means to promote transparency and accountability while keeping corruption at bay.
Education and corruption: a stochastic frontier analysis: evidence from developed and developing countries

The objective of this paper is to explain how a political institution (corruption) affects the efficiency of educational expenditure as an essential component of the knowledge economy. We applied a stochastic frontier analysis method to our sample of...

Sahnoun, Marwa, Abdennadher, Chokri

2019
Corruption and public spending on education and health

Existing country and regional studies show that the effect of corruption on public spending on health and education is mixed. This letter reveals that the effect of corruption on health and education spending is significant and non-linear in a panel...

Swaleheen, Mushfiq, Sami, Mohamed, Temimi, Akram

2019
Reflecting on the role of universities in the fight against corruption

Corruption continues to ravage societies around the world. The fight against corruption can be fruitful only if approached from multiple standpoints. Thus, corruption must also be approached from an academic and educational perspective. The purpose...

Hauser, Christian

2019
The Magnitude of corruption in Romanian public universities: preliminary results of a research based on national particularities

Corruption is a global issue and also a challenge, which is affecting the perspective of developing and transition countries, like Romania. Generally speaking, the attempt to define the phenomenon of corruption is very difficult, due to its’ multiple...

Petrescu, Cezara Cristina

2019
Beg, borrow, or steal: determinants of student academic misconduct in Ukrainian higher education

Actions underpinned by the lack of academic integrity are increasingly impacting academic processes within the higher education sector around the world. Bribery, plagiarism and other forms of deception that enable students to obtain undeserved grades...

Denisova-Schmidt, Elena, Prytula, Yaroslav, Rumyantseva, Nataliya L.

2019
Reclaiming education: rising above examination malpractices, and its contextual factors on study progress in Nigeria

This study investigated the perceived impact of examination malpractices (EMs) and its contextual factors on the study progress in Nigeria. Drawing upon data collected through structured questionnaire administered to 795 participants comprising of...

Okolie, Ugochukwu Chinonso, Nwosu, Hyginus Emeka, Eneje, Beatrice Chinyere, Oluka, Beth N.

2019
College admissions scandal: Stanford expels student allegedly tied to the scheme

08.04.2019 USA

Press

Doha Mandani - NBC News

The Justice Department at Stanford University alleged that the head sailing coach accepted multiple donations in exchange for pushing through applications of prospective students. Three donations of $770,000 were received in the sailing program; two of them were from families of students who were never admitted to the school and the third one was expelled last week.
The rot in unity schools

04.06.2019 Niger

Press

Adebayo Obajemu - Makeit Global

The standards of education in post-primary schools in Nigeria has considerably decreased. Dilapidation, unhealthy and stinking learning environments, lack of materials for required teaching and low morale in teaching staff are among the factors responsible for the critical state of the unity schools. There are also allegations of mismanagement of funds by administrators and other officials of the unity schools.

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