Handbook on Corruption in Higher Education

Edited by Elena Denisova-Schmidt, Privatdozentin, University of St.Gallen (HSG), Switzerland and Research Fellow, Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), Boston College, USA, Philip G. Altbach, Research Professor and Distinguished Fellow, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA and Hans de Wit, Emeritus Professor of the Practice and Distinguished Fellow, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA

• ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION1 A critical introduction to academic corruption 2Elena Denisova-SchmidtPART II THE SYSTEM MADE ME DO IT2 Growing opportunities for corruption in higher education 13Philip G. Altbach and Hans de Wit3 When does strategic leadership or playing the game cross the lineinto corruption? Untangling the complex relationship betweenuniversities and rankings 20Ellen Hazelkorn4 Institutional corruption and the marketisation of Englishuniversities: from financialisation and privatisation to unbundlingand asset stripping 39Cris Shore5 Addressing systemic forms of corruption affecting educationalstandards and quality 59Irene Glendinning6 An inclusive classification of illicit practices in education andhigher education 77Mihaylo Milovanovitch7 Peer review in the misinformation age 98A. J. Angulo and Megan Hadley8 Hiring from within: multi-faceted impact 117Maria Yudkevich9 Epistemic violence: a vital dimension of corruption in education 133Amra Sabic-El-Rayess and Vikramaditya (Vik) Joshi10 Corruption in the post-plagiarism era: weaponizing reputation andmorality in the name of integrity in higher education 146Sarah Elaine EatonPART III OTHER COUNTRIES, OTHER CUSTOMS11 Degrees of corruption in higher education: sketches from theAsia-Pacific 162Anthony Welch12 Degrees of deniability: contract cheating and the value chain ofcorruption in higher education – experiences from Australia 181Guy J. Curtis and Cath Ellis13 Unavoidable but useful? corrupt practices among Chinesehumanities and social sciences academics and students 198Ling Wang, Rui Yang and Yanzhen Zhu14 Eradicating corruption in German higher education and research:policies, practices and prospects 215Christopher Bohlens15 Academic corruption in higher education in India: policy andpractice 240Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal and Brigid Freeman16 Rent-seeking and corruption: A case study of student admission attwo Indonesian state universities 261Agustian Sutrisno17 Scientific fraud in Russia and other post-Soviet countries 278Andrei A. Rostovtsev, Mikhail S. Gelfand and Larisa G. Melikhova18 Academic misconduct at Russian universities: forms andacceptance 296Elena Denisova-Schmidt19 The micropolitics of corruption in South African universities 324Jonathan D. Jansen20 AI and academic integrity of undergraduate students in the UnitedArab Emirates 333Tatiana Karabchuk and Aizhan Shomotova21 For-profit colleges and the “bad apple” mythology in the US 349A. J. AnguloPART IV INSTEAD OF A CONCLUSION22 Education and corruption in my experience 364Stephen P. Heyneman

‘The Handbook on Corruption in Higher Education offers a wide-ranging exploration of unethical practices and policies affecting colleges and universities around the world. The Handbook is a groundbreaking contribution to the global literature in an under-researched area in international and comparative higher education. It is an essential read for educators, policymakers, and anyone interested in understanding and combating the challenges that threaten the integrity of and trust in higher education institutions.’