Handbook on Corruption in Higher Education

Edited by Elena Denisova-Schmidt (), Philip G. Altbach () and Hans de Wit ()

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Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Corruption; Higher Education; Academic Integrity; Massification; Internationalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035320233
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 A critical introduction to academic corruption

Elena Denisova-Schmidt

Ch 2 Growing opportunities for corruption in higher education

Philip G. Altbach and Hans de Wit

Ch 3 When does strategic leadership or playing the game cross the line into corruption? Untangling the complex relationship between universities and rankings

Ellen Hazelkorn

Ch 4 Institutional corruption and the marketisation of English universities: from financialisation and privatisation to unbundling and asset stripping

Cris Shore

Ch 5 Addressing systemic forms of corruption affecting educational standards and quality

Irene Glendinning

Ch 6 An inclusive classification of illicit practices in education and higher education

Mihaylo Milovanovitch

Ch 7 Peer review in the misinformation age

A. J. Angulo and Megan Hadley

Ch 8 Hiring from within: multi-faceted impact

Maria Yudkevich

Ch 9 Epistemic violence: a vital dimension of corruption in education

Amra Sabic-El-Rayess and Vikramaditya (Vik) Joshi

Ch 10 Corruption in the post-plagiarism era: weaponizing reputation and morality in the name of integrity in higher education

Sarah Elaine Eaton

Ch 11 Degrees of corruption in higher education: sketches from the Asia-Pacific

Anthony Welch

Ch 12 Degrees of deniability: contract cheating and the value chain of corruption in higher education—experiences from Australia

Guy J. Curtis and Cath Ellis

Ch 13 Unavoidable but useful? Corrupt practices among Chinese humanities and social sciences academics and students

Ling Wang, Rui Yang and Yanzhen Zhu

Ch 14 Eradicating corruption in German higher education and research: policies, practices, and prospects

Christopher Bohlens

Ch 15 Academic corruption in higher education in India: policy and practice

Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal and Brigid Freeman

Ch 16 Rent-seeking and corruption: a case study of student admission at two Indonesian state universities

Agustian Sutrisno

Ch 17 Scientific fraud in Russia and other post-Soviet countries

Andrei A. Rostovtsev, Mikhail S. Gelfand and Larisa G. Melikhova

Ch 18 Academic misconduct at Russian universities: forms and acceptance

Elena Denisova-Schmidt

Ch 19 The micropolitics of corruption in South African universities

Jonathan D. Jansen

Ch 20 AI and academic integrity of undergraduate students in the United Arab Emirates

Tatiana Karabchuk and Aizhan Shomotova

Ch 21 For-profit colleges and the “bad apple” mythology in the US

A. J. Angulo

Ch 22 Education and corruption in my experience

Stephen P. Heyneman

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