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Martin, Michaela – Quality in Higher Education, 2016
Corruption and malpractices in higher education are today a major concern in nearly all higher education systems worldwide. It is a multifaceted phenomenon and has become particularly visible in the academic domain. This paper represents an exploration of the possible role that quality assurance can play in addressing corruption and malpractices.…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Cheating
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Neal, Mark; Finlay, Jim; Karkoulian, Silva; Catana, Doina; Pellegrino, Robert – Tertiary Education and Management, 2015
When seeking to understand corruption in its ongoing temporal context, it is useful to consider business students. Because of their high numbers and the kinds of jobs they enter, they have a key role to play in challenging or sustaining corruption in their societies. This exploratory study focuses on these people in three countries in different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cheating, Deception, Social Problems
Dessoff, Alan – District Administration, 2011
Administrators and teachers in several large districts nationwide have cheated on standardized tests to make achievement levels look better than they actually were. The offenses range from giving students advance answers to questions on standardized tests, to erasing and changing unsatisfactory answers. As a result of district and state…
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Behavior, School Administration, Administrator Behavior
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Haake, Claudia B. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2012
This article seeks to explain the nature of the arguments the Iroquois presented to the US government in trying to prevent their removal. In the letters they wrote to the federal government from the 1830s to the 1850s they emphasized their own law as well as that of the United States. They drew on whatever perception of law they deemed was best…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Federal Government, Federal Indian Relationship, Treaties
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Osipian, Ararat L. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2008
Corruption in higher education is a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. Some aspects of corruption in education have been addressed in recent works by Eckstein, Hallak & Poisson, Heyneman, Noah & Eckstein, Segal, and Washburn. However, rigorous systematic research is lacking. This article considers corruption in higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Deception, Differences
Osipian, Ararat L. – Online Submission, 2007
Corruption in higher education is a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. There is a phenomenal growth in the number of media reports on corruption in higher education over the last decade. However, the rigorous systematic research on education corruption is virtually nonexistent. This paper considers corruption in higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Incidence, Foreign Countries, Crime