Regional training seminar “Mechanisms in place to prevent corruption offenses in education”

Regional training seminar “Mechanisms in place to prevent corruption offenses in education” for headmasters held by Education Administration of East Kazakhstan region jointly with the Department of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Anti-Corruption of East Kazakhstan region (Anti-Corruption Service), Shygys - Adaldyk Alany Project Office took place on March 13, 2020.

The purpose of the seminar is to increase the professional competence of headmasters on the prevention of corruption offenses and the identification of corruption risks in educational institutions.

The seminar was attended by 24 headmasters and principals of the region, appointed in 2019.

The moderator of the seminar was Bayzhanova Aigul Oralgazinovna, Deputy Head of Education Administration of East Kazakhstan region, who introduced the participants of the seminar to the major directions of the anti-corruption policy in the field of education.

One of the priorities is to eliminate the domestic corruption. Education Administration is actively involved in the implementation of the Shygys - Adaldyk Alany Project and is working in four main areas:

- Developing anti-corruption culture and honesty among officials of educational institutions, teachers, schoolstudents and students;

- openness and public control;

- providing public services of high-quality;

- conducting an internal analysis of corruption risks.

In order to eliminate the illegal collection of funds, sponsor accounts were opened, headmasters and principals signed a document on personal responsibility for the development of the anti-corruption culture in the school staff, schools have voluntary clubs “Adal urpak”. The project “Open School - Open Budget” has been developed, where all the necessary information about the school’s budget, spending the budget and extra-budget funds is available on the website in an accessible form for the public. Chernyshova Inessa Aleksandrovna, the headmaster of School-gymnasium No. 38 with deep learning of English language of Ust-Kamenogorsk city shared her experience related to the implementation of this project.

Renat Baysariyevich Nabiyev, the Head of Prevention and Integrity Administration of the Department of the Anti-Corruption Agency of East Kazakhstan region, spoke about mechanisms in place to prevent corruption offenses in the field of education.

Elena Nikolayevna Berezinskaya-Abilova, an adviser to Akim of East Kazakhstan region, the Head of Shygys-Adaldyk Alany Project Office, introduced the audience to the main mission of the project and the main directions, ambassadors, project stakeholders and the project office team. Elena Nikolayevna emphasized that the work is based on the project management on the principles of openness, transparency and integrity.

One of the important areas of work in the team, especially those appointed six months ago, is the observance of the labor relations. The seminar was attended by Ivan Nikolayevich Sokolov, a chief legal expert of the Local Educators’ Trade Union of East Kazakhstan region, who acquainted headmasters with the main violations of labor relations between the employer and employee and answered all questions.

Sarimov Daniyar Ryspekovich, a manager of the project office “Shygys - Adaldyk Alany” introduced headmasters to the following issues: What is corruption risk? What is the correct way and in what areas to conduct an internal analysis of corruption risks in educational institutions? How to build the work in this direction, where to start and how to conduct it. Participants also received practical materials.

Following the seminar, all participants were awarded certificates.