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Anti-corruption education and corruption in the education sector
Education is central to preventing corruption. Teaching ethics to schoolchildren or university students, showing the importance of integrity to public officials, and raising general public awareness helps fighting corruption. But when the education system itself is corrupt, how can children learn the values that underlie a transparent and accountable society? When money counts more than knowledge in the quest for a diploma, studying and learning lose their purpose.
To highlight both ends of the issue of corruption and education, these pages are divided into the anti-corruption education section and the corruption in the education sector section.
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Anti-corruption education is a vital and necessary component of any anti-corruption strategy. Education builds citizens' expectations and enforces demands for accountability. Education is a cross cutting issue which incorporates all aspects of TI's work, and many of TI's more than 90 national chapters across the globe work in education and training. This website is a resource for all those interested in approaches, tools and methodologies of anti-corruption teaching and training. |
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| Corruption in education |
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Given its importance for a country's economic and political future, the education sector is expected to be particularly fair. However, both grand and petty corruption flourish in education in many countries. For example, illegitimate fees and bribes pose an obstacle for the poor to access education, and corruption in school management and accreditation of educational institutions leads to poor quality education. Corruption in education is also incompatible with one of education's major aims: producing citizens that respect the law and human rights. [see more] |
