Education and Corruption

Abstract

Corruption is a societal problem which adversely affects nations’ efforts to improve lives of their citizens. It is normally thought to be centered on government procurement, taxation, and legal decisions and not in education. But it is a problem in education. How serious is it? The difficulty of responding to this question is that corruption in education, as with all illegal and unprofessional activities, is difficult to accurately measure. This limits researchers to predicting institutional and systemic levels of corruption by relying primarily on individual perceptions. Measuring direct experience with corruption is more difficult and hence more rare. Since 1993, Transparency International has taken a global pulse of corruption by conducting the world’s largest corruption survey to derive the Corruption Perception Index and rank nations from the most to the least corrupt. When it comes to corruption research, participants generally hesitate to share their experiences for fear of repercussions, which is why less corruption is likely to be reported than may be actually occurring within education systems. Corruption is manifest in a wide variety of forms. A broad range of literature on corruption in education has been published in the early 21st century, with the goal of defining corruption typologies and examining the effects which corruption has on education systems and those who depend on those education systems. But anticorruption efforts in education have had limited success and more research is needed on non-pecuniary forms of corruption and their relation to elite formation and institutionalized racism.

Counselling and Religious Experience: Life Changes of Former Corruption Convicts can be Specifying Religious Experiences

“…Religious experience while imprisoned for being a convict in a corruption case changes individuals' affective, cognitive, and behaviour. Corruption cases are personal problems (Supriyanto et al, 2022), so anti-corruption education is needed despite limited success (Jackson, 2017;Sabic-El-Rayess & Heyneman, 2020). Counsellors have the ability in counselling services to suppress corruption cases (Ohuakanwa, 2021).…”

Students’ Perceptions of University Corruption in a Spanish Public University: A Path Analysis

“…Most of all, the results reveal that the education sector is not free of corruption, and universities must face this urgent problem in order to avoid future economic, societal, and ethical problems ( Sabic-El-Rayess and Heyneman, 2021 ). A corrupt university results in corrupt members and a pervasive conduct that reinforces unethical behavior and penalizes a curriculum based on merit and personal effort ( Chapman and Lindner, 2016 ; Denisova-Schmidt, 2020 ).…”

“…Academics, politicians, and students worldwide have expressed their concern about the prevalence of corruption in education ( Sabic-El-Rayess, 2016 ; Denisova-Schmidt, 2020 ; Sabic-El-Rayess and Heyneman, 2021 ), due to its harmful consequences for most university members ( Chapman and Lindner, 2016 ; Maloshonok and Shmeleva, 2019 ; Denisova-Schmidt, 2020 ). In fact, previous research has highlighted the pervasiveness of corruption in the educational sector, from primary school to university, throughout the world ( Heyneman, 2013 ; Denisova-Schmidt, 2017 ).…”

“…In fact, previous research has highlighted the pervasiveness of corruption in the educational sector, from primary school to university, throughout the world ( Heyneman, 2013 ; Denisova-Schmidt, 2017 ). Corrupt practices in universities are especially damaging because they produce a corrupt educational system that cannot afford to provide good services for students ( Sabic-El-Rayess and Heyneman, 2021 ) and they also contribute to the rise of malpractices in their workplace when entering in the future job market ( Ochulor, 2011 ).…”

Responses to the Challenges of Training and Retaining Scholars in Russian Academia

“…Institutional corruption is not traditional corruption as suggested by Transparency International, and it is not a term that is usually applied in studies covering corruption in academia in Russia or beyond (see recent discussions in Bretag 2020;Denisova-Schmidt (1) 2020;Sabic-El-Rayess, Heyneman 2020]). Rather, institutional corruption is 'a literal homonym'the term does exist in Russian academia, but with a different meaning-of a term used among Russian scholars, 'institutional'naia korrupciia'.…”