Fighting fraud in our schools
Fraud is a vice that needs to be fought with all the resources available. Schools experience great magnitude of fraud from so many angles; the managers could be dishonest, the suppliers could be con or supply under quality items and also the students and their parents could defraud the school.
As we have said before, learning is of many forms; there is academic, professional and the negative learning. Negative learning is the type that is destructive. The knowledge gained is to be used for personal gains and destruction of others or the existing systems. So as they learn on how to steal from us we should learn and teach methods to counteract them. Students should not cheat in their examinations, forge checks or even alter the results by hacking into the colleges’ systems.
Those who offer help should also be vigilant. They should scrutinize all documents presented by the applicants to ensure their real identities, check out records of the colleges to be joined and the real residency of both the college and the students. Other measures as contacting educational boards and agents can greatly minimize fraud in financial aid disbursement.
Students applying for student loans should be subjected into the same or rigorous scrutiny as for the financial aids. The purpose of the loan should be confirmed and instead of the student getting the money or aid the college should.