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•  Bennett, N. (2001). Corruption in education systems in developing countries: What is it doing to the young. Presented to the 10th International Anticorruption Conference.
http://www.10iacc.org/download/workshops/cs34a.pdf

This paper explores the effects of corruption and mismanagement in schools in the developing world that lead to teacher absenteeism and bad quality tuition. Schools in the developing countries of Africa and Asia, as Bennett��s experience shows, are plagued with large amounts of students per class, with teachers that are overworked, absent, underpaid or paid too late and school books that have rarely a relation to the country or the students. These factors reflect negatively on the education of the students. Bennett proposes moving the recruitment, discipline and payment of teachers away from the bureaucrats as close as possible to the parents, choosing local educators from the region where the school is, developing school curricula together with parents and educational experts, and adapting the school to the needs of the particular region, like adapting the holiday calendar to the needs of farmers�� children. The knowledge drawn from 40 years of experience in the school system of African countries gives this article a founded background of discussion and expertise.

•  Brown, G. (2005, October 13). Recognition and authentication of overseas students qualifications: towards a best practice model for Australia. Presented to the Australian International Education Conference, Queensland, Australia.
http://www.idp.com/aiec2005/program/Brown,%20George.pdf

Qualification fraud has reached disturbing proportions around the world; unfortunately, it is rarely addressed in a constructive manner, being dramatised by the media and often dismissed by higher education administrators as a minor irritation. The author argues that such a laissez-faire approach cannot be maintained, with statistics suggesting that twenty five to thirty percent of applicants for positions within a range of industries falsify their academic credentials. Higher education within Australia is not immune to this problem, and such disturbing statistics suggest that current technological advances should be used in conjunction with clear, transparent policies and procedures for all qualification verification and authentication. In order to protect stakeholders involved in the decision making process and maximise equitable outcomes, this paper profiles a range of methodologies and systems which are being used, or are under current development, in order to combat the problem of credential fraud.

•  Heyneman, S. P. (2002, November 20). Education and corruption. Presented to the National Forum at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Sacramento, CA.
http://www.politika.lv/polit_real/files/lv/EducCorrupt.pdf

This paper defines corruption in education, explains why it is important, and describes various types of corruption and their causes. Emphasis is placed on the role of higher education institutions in educational corruption, but the paper is not limited to higher education. Four categories of reforms are suggested to minimize the risk of educational corruption. These include reforms to: (i) educational structures, (ii) the processes of management and adjudication, (iii) the mechanisms of prevention and when wrongdoing occurs, (iv) the system of sanctions.

•  Holtge, K. (2005). Governance in transition: What makes Georgia's higher education system so corrupt. Osteuropa-Institut, Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin.

This thesis examines causes of academic corruption in Georgia's higher education system as exemplified in the prestigious faculties of International Law, Political Science, and Western Philology of Tbilisi State University. It argues that even though legal reforms are certainly necessary, addressing internal structures of public bodies might be more promising in addressing the challenge of academic corruption.