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Ashesi University in Financial Times

Financial Times did a piece on Ashesi University in January and asked founder Patrick Awuah about the Honour System.

“As well as pushing for high academic standards, fostering a culture of ethics is a central mission of the school. If caught cheating, students fail the course. Anyone found cheating a second time is expelled. “When we started, people said we were being unreasonable,” says Mr Awuah. “But it’s what schools in the west do, so why shouldn’t we?”

Read the article in full here.

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  1. Maya Mame says

    Hi Kajsa,
    Not so much a comment on the story just thought you might want to remind those who link to your blog to change the link to the new blog. Just did mine (after realising I hadn’t seen anything new for about a week)!

  2. Kajsa says

    Thanks Maya Maame!

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  1. Teaching Ethics in Africa: Giving Voice to Values | Kajsa H. A. linked to this post on August 30, 2010

    [...] Ashesi’s mission centers around educating ethical leaders (see for instance this earlier post highlighting ethics at Ashesi), I am excited to see this course being rolled out to the whole freshman class this year and happy [...]



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