Archive | Corruption

Romania: Diploma Factory

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Posted on 09 November 2009 by Claudia Ciobanu

Education officials question the quality of education in Romania’s largest private university, jeopardizing the diplomas of more than 100,000 students and recent graduates.

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Ukraine: Unfair Advantages

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Posted on 09 November 2009 by Alexander Belyakov

Ukraine’s new system of externally evaluated admissions exams has led to a surge in ‘privileged applicants’ claiming disadvantaged status in the admissions process.

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Macedonia: Ongoing Saga

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Posted on 09 November 2009 by Mirkica Popovik

Macedonian university students in nearby Greece say they confront a Kafkaesque bureaucracy when trying to obtain legal residence there.

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Moldova: Diplomas for Sale

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Posted on 04 February 2008 by Nils Kauffman

Moldova’s schools struggle against graft, but low pay for teachers makes it hard to resist the extra cash.

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Uzbekistan: Lessons in Graft

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Posted on 21 January 2008 by Marina Kozlova

Need better marks in school? In Uzbekistan, a little extra cash can help.

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Macedonia: Go to the Head of the Class

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Posted on 29 October 2007 by Ljubica Grozdanovska Dimishkovska

About 95 percent of students in Macedonian primary and secondary schools receive straight A’s thanks to their ardent begging, pleading parents, and lenient teachers.

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Call for Papers

As part of the Advancing Educational Inclusion and Quality in South East Europe Initiative the Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute (OSI) announces a competition open to individuals on the elaboration of research papers using the statistical data collected as part of the 2009 Cross-National Survey of Parents in South East Europe (SEE) countries. Proposals are invited primarily from graduate students and early career researchers.

Application deadline: February 20th 2010.