Editor’s note: On Wednesday, June 6, the UN’s education wing, UNESCO, released a report by Jacques Hallak and Muriel Poisson on corruption in international education, “Corrupt Schools, Corrupt Universities: What Can be Done?” (Press release here; PDF of report here.) We asked Steve Heyneman, professor of international education policy, if he’d care to comment. Professor Heyneman is currently traveling in Armenia, but he e-mailed and pointed us to a couple of additional resources. Here’s what Steve said:
This publication of the International Institute for Education Planning represents an emerging global interest in the problem of corruption in education.
At Vanderbilt we have been working on these issues for the last seven years. Two publications are attached here as examples of our work. The first appeared in 2004 in the International Journal of Education Development. This one defined corruption in the education sphere, explains why it is important, and lists possible interventions meant to solve the problem.
The second one will appear next fall in the Comparative Education Review. It is co-authored with Kathryn Anderson and Nazym Nuraliyeva.
This is the first attempt to estimate the economic cost to corruption in higher education.
Steve’s articles:
- Education and corruption, International Journal of Education Development: doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2004.02.005
- The cost of corruption in higher education (manuscript, PDF), Comparative Education Review (forthcoming, 2007)
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