Corruption happens in the UK, but does the fact that it does not happen in daily life make us less prepared to fight it? So asks Tim Bergman who works for the anti-corruption pressure group Transparency International’s Secretariat Office in Berlin.
He blogged about the Transparency International Lithuania Summer School: “Now I’ve read a lot about corruption in articles, books and papers. But I was shaken to hear first-hand from another student how her university professor literally gave her a price list for her exam results. She told me that she was failed no matter how good her work was – because she refused to bribe them and pay for her grade. Another student told me that if she had not bribed the official, she wouldn’t have been able to have her passport in time to attend this summer school.”
