Doctorates have long attracted attention of those aspiring to scholarship and research, but also those seeking verbal distinctions and a documented knowledge. Doctoral degrees are considered as signs of a high level expertise and authority in a given filed. The growing number of dissertation...

Education in Central Eurasia has become one of the industries, most affected by corruption. Corruption in academia, including bribery, extortion's, embezzlement, nepotism, fraud, cheating, and plagiarism, is reflected in the region's media and addressed in few scholarly works. This paper...

Higher education in the U.S. may be characterized by complexity and plurality of forms. The Ivy League universities and those trying to replicate them, or so-called "wanna be" universities, coexist with numerous large public institutions, four-year colleges and community colleges. While the...

This paper considers corruption in higher education in Ukraine as reflected in the national media, including such aspects as corruption in admissions to higher education institutions and corruption in administering the newly introduced standardized test. The major focus is on the opinions of the...

Corruption in higher education is a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. There is a phenomenal growth in the number of media reports on corruption in higher education over the last decade. However, the rigorous systematic research on education corruption is virtually...

This paper considers corruption in higher education in Russia as reflected in the national media, including such aspects as corruption in admissions to higher education institutions and corruption in administering the newly introduced standardized test. The major focus is on the opinions of the...

Corruption in higher education is a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. Some aspects of corruption in education have been addressed in the resent works by Eckstein (2003), Hallak and Poisson (2002, 2007), Heyneman (2004, 2007, 2008), Noah & Eckstein (2001), Osipian (2007,...

Higher education corruption is an emerging sub-field of research that has yet to develop its terminological apparatus and own specific research methodologies. The interdisciplinary nature of this sub-field predetermines its dependency on other well-established fields, such as microeconomics,...

Raiding along with corruption is the number one problem in Russia. Raiding is a hostile takeover that manifests a fight for property or other valuable assets that often involves corruption and fraud. In addition to production facilities, real estate and land are major targets of raiders. Raiding...

This paper addresses the issue of doctorates for sale in the Russian Federation. It uses an example of the Russian political establishment to project on the issue of corruption in conferring doctorates and searches to answer the questions: Why do politicians buy doctorates? and Is it possible to...