ICAC University Integrity Survey 2023
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- 70 pages
Summary
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South Australia’s Independent Commission Against Corruption surveyed staff at the state’s three public universities about perceived corruption and other improper conduct.
The voluntary survey received 2,527 responses and focused on research integrity, records management and outside professional activities.
The Commission reported that recruitment favouritism and misuse of authority remained the largest perceived corruption risks, while reported access to adequate training had declined.
The Commission urged universities to improve integrity messaging, support staff reporting and explain reporting duties and protections.
In the body's own words
- Conclusion
The proportion of respondents who have received sufficient training on corruption risks has decreased from 2020 to 2023.
Findings and recommendations
Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.
No findings or recommendations are reproduced in this record. This does not establish that the report contains none.
Published responses
No published response was found.
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ICAC University Integrity Survey 2023
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ICAC University Integrity Survey 2020
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- Linked
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Coverage
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- Office for Public Integrity: publishes only its annual reports (excluded); no OPI report or statement records.
- Since October 2021 the Commission does not make findings of corrupt conduct; most records have no findings.
- Government and agency responses are recorded only where the Commission's page links them or the report reproduces them; implementation status is not published by the Commission as structured data.
- Scanned reports without a text layer are not read (no OCR); their recommendations stay not_extracted.
- Recommendations are extracted only from numbered 'Recommendation N' lists; reports that set out recommendations in prose, tables or unnumbered lists keep recommendations_status not_extracted.
- Findings are extracted only from investigation reports that state them in the Commissioner's own words (Oakden 2018, Gillman 2015); public statements are not read for findings.