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Stephen Downes

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I encountered this report (78 page PDF) while looking up a journal soliciting manuscripts by email. If you just looked at the front page you might think the title is "Corruption in Higher Education", since that's the part in bold text. Reading through the results (it's actually a very quick read) you will see that corruption is a widespread problem. But. The report is based on interviews of Accreditation and Quality Assurance Bodies (ACAB) and the responses constitute a total of 69 individuals. Many individual questions are left unanswered, so the number of responses is often much lower than that. So at best I would say the results are suggestive of a problem, but that actual evidence would be needed to pinpoint how much of a problem it is, where it occurs, and what forms it takes.

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