UNESCO report reveals corruption recruiting international students

Mel Broitman of the Center for International Higher Education reports on corruption in recruiting practices around the world but focuses on the example of Canada. He asserts that "It is overwhelmingly evident that in the last two decades we have witnessed first-hand a remarkable and callous disregard for academic ethics and standards in a scramble by Canadian universities and colleges to sign up foreign students, who represent tens of millions of dollars to their bottom lines." The applicability of this very sad indictment to many institutions and countries isn't the worst part of this picture; the impact of dashed hopes and undeveloped capacity on individual students, their families, and the countries who often fund their attendance is the greater tragedy.