Recommendation on countering education fraud

In July 2022, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted a Recommendation addressed to its member States aimed at assisting them in combating fraud in the field of education.

Recommendation CM/Rec(2022)18 on countering education fraud addresses the need for a common European approach to ethics, integrity and transparency in education. It makes recommendations for four areas related to education fraud: prevention, prosecution, international cooperation, and monitoring. The Recommendation aims to assist member States to counter education fraud and promote and support ethics, transparency and integrity in education, and therefore to help them ensure the right to education for all learners.

Education is understood in its broader scope, with all measures contained in the text applying to access to, and all levels and forms of, education, offline and online, from pre-primary to higher education, including vocational education and lifelong learning.
The Recommendation includes definitions of education fraud, plagiarism and different types of providers of fraudulent documents such as diploma, accreditation and visa “mills”, as well as essay banks.
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