Exhibition of ancient Russian books is held in Bologna during the Russian Language Week in Italy.
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UNESCO Counted Bribes Given to Enter Russia’s Universities
The overall amount of bribes annually given in Russia for entering universities reaches $520 million, Interfax announced referring to UNESCO report on corrupt practices in education, which covered 60 states of the world. The conclusion of the report is that bribing, fake graduate degrees and other violations are wide-spread both in developing countries and in developed ones.
In Ukraine, for instance, you will need roughly $10,000 to enter prestigious university. Of interest is that private universities give equal bribes to get licenses. Another problem that is common to CIS is substituting free education by private lessons. To enter a university, a school leaver has to take private lessons from university professors, who can leak some information about the entering exams, according to one of the authors of UNESCO report.
What’s more, the leak of money appropriated for education reaches 80 percent in some countries. Young people actively buy fake graduate degrees, including via the Internet.
Fighting corrupt practices, the report says, calls for elaborating definite instructions to distribute the funds allocated for education, improving accounting and toughening public control.
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