October 1, 2009

Russia Cracks Down on Fraud in College Entrance Exam

By Anna Nemtsova

Moscow

This year Russia introduced a nationwide university entrance exam in hopes of reducing bribery and other forms of corruption that have become rampant in the college admissions process throughout the country. This week, however, the minister of science and education announced that several regional administrators of the exam had been fired because they themselves were corrupt.

A federal education-inspection service began investigating the administrators after receiving

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