Full Description
This insightful Handbook provides an overview of corruption within the context of higher education. Through a variety of international case studies, theoretical frameworks and methodologies, it examines the underlying issues involved in corruption as well as the damaging impact on scholarly cultures and the academic enterprise.
Leading and emerging global experts discuss how the success of universities is particularly dependent on an honest community of scholars and students, as well as on a research culture based on the tradition of peer review and open analysis. They identify the ways in which corruption can enter academia through direct and indirect student involvement and in monetary or non-monetary forms, including cheating in exams, plagiarism, academic promotions, student admissions and financial crimes. The Handbook further investigates the reputational damage and distrust in higher education that these incidents can create among wider society.
Scholars and students of education policy, academic integrity, corruption studies and sociology will greatly benefit from this informative Handbook. Timely and engaging, it is also an essential resource for policymakers and practitioners in university management and higher education.
Contents
Contents
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 A critical introduction to academic corruption 2
Elena Denisova-Schmidt
PART II THE SYSTEM MADE ME DO IT
2 Growing opportunities for corruption in higher education 13
Philip G. Altbach and Hans de Wit
3 When does strategic leadership or playing the game cross the line
into corruption? Untangling the complex relationship between
universities and rankings 20
Ellen Hazelkorn
4 Institutional corruption and the marketisation of English
universities: from financialisation and privatisation to unbundling
and asset stripping 39
Cris Shore
5 Addressing systemic forms of corruption affecting educational
standards and quality 59
Irene Glendinning
6 An inclusive classification of illicit practices in education and
higher education 77
Mihaylo Milovanovitch
7 Peer review in the misinformation age 98
A. J. Angulo and Megan Hadley
8 Hiring from within: multi-faceted impact 117
Maria Yudkevich
9 Epistemic violence: a vital dimension of corruption in education 133
Amra Sabic-El-Rayess and Vikramaditya (Vik) Joshi
10 Corruption in the post-plagiarism era: weaponizing reputation and
morality in the name of integrity in higher education 146
Sarah Elaine Eaton
PART III OTHER COUNTRIES, OTHER CUSTOMS
11 Degrees of corruption in higher education: sketches from the
Asia-Pacific 162
Anthony Welch
12 Degrees of deniability: contract cheating and the value chain of
corruption in higher education - experiences from Australia 181
Guy J. Curtis and Cath Ellis
13 Unavoidable but useful? corrupt practices among Chinese
humanities and social sciences academics and students 198
Ling Wang, Rui Yang and Yanzhen Zhu
14 Eradicating corruption in German higher education and research:
policies, practices and prospects 215
Christopher Bohlens
15 Academic corruption in higher education in India: policy and
practice 240
Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal and Brigid Freeman
16 Rent-seeking and corruption: A case study of student admission at
two Indonesian state universities 261
Agustian Sutrisno
17 Scientific fraud in Russia and other post-Soviet countries 278
Andrei A. Rostovtsev, Mikhail S. Gelfand and Larisa G. Melikhova
18 Academic misconduct at Russian universities: forms and
acceptance 296
Elena Denisova-Schmidt
19 The micropolitics of corruption in South African universities 324
Jonathan D. Jansen
20 AI and academic integrity of undergraduate students in the United
Arab Emirates 333
Tatiana Karabchuk and Aizhan Shomotova
21 For-profit colleges and the "bad apple" mythology in the US 349
A. J. Angulo
PART IV INSTEAD OF A CONCLUSION
22 Education and corruption in my experience 364
Stephen P. Heyneman
