Is corruption universal? Is it possible to fight aginst corruption at institutions of higher learning?

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Ljubomir Jacić

Dear @Abhijit, under some thread on corruption, I have mentioned Your efforts and the paper about, which is attached now. Maybe it is under some of my threads. Congratulations and keep on fighting! See page 39, my response about your fight!

I have a thread on corruption, and I will attach to, since there are many good answers, responses about corruption in higher education also! Kind regards and respects!

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Corruption_remains_one_of_the_biggest_challenges_for_all_societies_Do_you_have_examples_of_corruption_in_your_society?_tpcectx=profile_highlights

András Bozsik

Dear Abhijit,

Yes, corruption is universal and people raising their voice against it are often punished and get into a difficult situation because corruption is not a lonely deed but a net of criminal and greedy actions.

My congratulations to your courage and success! I am sure each of us should fight against corruption but most of as are weak and timid and some choose always the most comfortable and useful solutions even to work together with swindlers.

Corruption is so universal that many do not dare to criticise it or they bore this subject which became very frequent as a thread at RG.

Costinel C. Cristescu

As the predecessors underlined, corruption is an universal tarra of the human society from the beginnings.

But what is corruption in fact? I think there are a lot of overtones concerning this term, according to the general spirituality of nations. I think also that there are scale of corruption acts, or some classes of corruption acts, like "usual", "customary", "gross", "criminal", "undergrown", "pervasive", and so on...

I think that corruption is, essentially, an engine of the human society development - corruption get up so it get you down. See the rise and decay of empires for example: all empires were built on corruption and all of them have fallen because of corruption.

As long as human society is divided into classes, doesn't matter the criteria by which they are formed, corruption will play an important role in the general trend of development. Corruption creates conflicts and without conflicts there are no development. This explains why fighting against corruption is an imperative necessity.

Abhijit Guha

Many thanks Ljubomir,András and Costinel, I am impressed by your courage to tell the truth.You are inspiring too.Only with your response, I felt that I am not alone and RG has made it possible!