Underpinning integrity in the Albanian education system: compilation of PACA outputs

This publication has been prepared within the framework of the Project against Corruption in Albania (PACA).

PACA has provided assistance to the Government of Albania on a wide range of policies related to the fight against corruption. A major component of the PACA project has been to assist with preventing and tackling corruption in the education sector. In all, the project provided five risk assessments on selected institutions or sectors, knowing that successful policies to fight corruption must be based on evidence and research. In the area of education, PACA delivered two major risk assessment documents - one of the public education sector and human resources policy, and another on the regulation and control of the private education sector. During the extension phase of the project - from March to December 2012 - PACA provided extensive follow-up assistance for the establishment of a system of inspections and quality assurance in the higher education institutions, with recommendations for how such a system can be constituted and on the content of inspection manuals.

This compilation comprises all the documentary outputs: the risk assessments, the evaluation of the implementation of PACA recommendations, the technical papers providing analyses and recommendations for the higher education inspection and quality assurance system, and the Code of Ethics.