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  • Newspaper

    Probe into subsidies fraud

    Thailand

    Press

    Chakrapan Natanri - Bangkokpost

    A senior teacher in Khon Kaen is accused of being involved in corruption over two government payment schemes, after 38 villagers from Ban Fang district's Ban complained that she had offered them 200 baht each to claim handouts in the We Travel Together tourism stimulus package. When the villagers tried to register for benefits under the "Rao Chana" (We Win) scheme, they found out their identities had already been used to register them for the Kon La Krueng co-payment subsidy scheme.

  • Newspaper

    With online exams, UNISA sees an increase in cheating and plagiarism

    South Africa

    Press

    Msindisi Fengu - City Press

    2,400 students from the colleges of agriculture, environmental and human sciences and engineering have had their marks withheld by UNISA due to concerns over cheating. Over 750 warning letter have been issued and other 200 cases were still outstanding. The consequences of cheating can results in disqualification from future tests or examinations, and exclusions or expulsions from the university.

  • Newspaper

    New measures for fighting scourge of academic fraud

    Algeria

    Press

    Wagdy Sawahel - University World News

    A 2018 study revealed that 70.7% of second-year students at 8 Mai 1945 Guelma University in Algeria admitted that they had cheated in tests as a result of competition for grades, parental expectations and ineffective invigilation by the teacher. In an effort to protect academic integrity, the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education approved a new law at the end of 2020 that sets out the legal procedures for preventing scientific and academic theft.

  • Newspaper

    6 Alabama school officials charged with fraud

    USA

    Press

    Trisha Powell Crain - Alabama

    School officials in the city of Athens and Limestone County have conspired to obtain more public funding by claiming to enrol full-time private students in the system's virtual schools. The two school districts were improperly paid around $7 million in state education funding for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 school years. By November 2017, more than 500 private school students were fraudulently enrolled in Athens Renaissance schools and over 50 students in Conecuh County.

  • Newspaper

    Scrutiny of illegal foreign providers to be intensified

    Nigeria

    Press

    Tunde Fatunde - University World News

    The demand for higher education in Nigeria is significant and the 79 private and 91 federal and state universities cannot meet the need. Nevertheless, the Nigerian government will no longer allow illegal satellite campuses and affiliations with foreign unaccredited universities. This follows the release by the National Universities Commission in February of a list of about 60 illegal universities which were closed because they failed to meet the minimum education standards.

  • Newspaper

    Board mulls anti-cheating platform for universities

    Estonia

    Press

    - University World News

    The Estonian Board of Education and Youth (Harno) is planning to test an exam monitoring platform, called Proctorio, and is currently collecting data on the needs of universities that have expressed interest in implementing the platform to stop cheating in exams. This US developed application allows for out-of-classroom exam monitoring and can be connected to older anti-cheating platforms.

  • Open School Data: Here’s your go-to guide

    News

    Open school data is a powerful tool. When used properly, open data can promote citizen control over the transfer and use of financial, material, and human resources. Open data can hold local and school authorities to account, improve service delivery, and detect malpractice at the school level – and most importantly, enable citizens to stand up for their right to quality education.

  • Open school data: what planners need to know

    This publication has been prepared to help decision-makers as well as educational planners and managers make informed decisions regarding access to practical, effective, and usable open school data. It argues that education authorities have much to...

    Poisson, Muriel

    Paris, UNESCO-IIEP, 2021

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