The publication reviews the areas most prone to corruption, namely: financing of schools, teacher management and behaviour, public contracts – particularly for school construction and textbook production – organisation of examinations, accreditation of higher education institutions and private tutoring. It additionally highlights strategies to improve transparency and accountability, such as creating and maintaining transparent regulatory systems, strengthening management capacities for greater accountability and enhancing ownership of the management process.

The ‘ethics and corruption in education’ research project also produced training materials that will form the basis of a summer course on “Transparency, accountability and anti-corruption measures in education”, offered by IIEP from 11 to 20 June 2007 in Paris, France. The course is designed for education managers and administrators, and civil society representatives. TI chapters are invited to apply (no registration fees). Please contact Muriel Poisson at: m.poisson@iiep.unesco.org

Corrupt schools, corrupt universities: What can be done? by Jacques Hallak and Muriel Poisson, Paris: UNESCO Publishing (2006) can be downloaded at www.unesco.org/iiep/, or by contacting: n.kelsick@iiep.unesco.org Other IIEP publications on corruption in education can be downloaded at www.unesco.org/iiep/eng/publications/recent/etico.htm