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

Anthony Welch

Chapter 11 in Handbook on Corruption in Higher Education, 2025, pp 163-181 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The chapter scans the corruption landscape in Asia-Pacific higher education. Beginning with a consideration of what is included in the definition of “Asia-Pacific”, and what constitutes corruption, a literature review of academic misfeasance, malfeasance, and corruption is conducted. Going beyond the usual guidelines that some organisations present as sufficient to prevent corruption, case studies are presented of China, Malaysia, and Australia that delve into the specific forms of higher education corruption in each instance. While a wide range of such practices is found in China and Malaysia, de-regulatory neo-liberalism is identified as the main cause of corruption in Australia. It is finally argued that guidelines and specific measures to constrain corruption, while useful, are insufficient without a focus on the underlying culture of corruption that gives rise to specific practices.

Keywords: Corruption; Asia-Pacific; Longstanding history; Culture of corruption; De-regulation; Case studies; Guidelines inadequate; Woodpecker; Janus face (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035320233
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