The Impact of Corruption in Education in Poland

POLISH CHILDREN AND YOUTH FOUNDATION
THE IMPACT OF CORRUPTION
IN EDUCATION IN POLAND
THE IMPACT OF CORRUPTION IN EDUCATION IN POLAND
LEGAL ASPECTS
Teachers can not be prosecuted for accepting
bribes because bribing teachers is not considered
to be a crime in Poland.
According to the Polish Penal Code only public
persons can be prosecuted for corruption.
Teachers are not considered to be public persons.
THE IMPACT OF CORRUPTION IN EDUCATION IN POLAND
ETHIC ASPECT
Corruption in education has a very demoralising
impact on the young generation - there exists a
growing conviction that money is more important
than individual learning effort and intellectual
capacities.
Beata àDFLDN Corruption in education - forms and scope, Warsaw 2000, p. 79
THE IMPACT OF CORRUPTION IN EDUCATION IN POLAND
Thing that can be arranged by giving a bribe
50 %
45 %
40 %
35 %
30 %
25 %
20 %
15 %
10 %
5%
0%
43 %
23 %
16 %
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FORMS OF CORRUPTION IN EDUCATION
❧ „buying” positive grades
❧ “buying” entrance examinations to secondary schools
and universities
❧ “selling” tests, final examination forms
❧ giving additional private lessons
❧ system of incentives for selecting specific text books
THE IMPACT OF CORRUPTION IN EDUCATION IN POLAND
ETHICAL SOCIAL CONTEXT
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low prestige of teaching profession - negative selection
lack of teacher’s ethical code
social acceptance of cheating during examinations
gifts
THE IMPACT OF CORRUPTION IN EDUCATION IN POLAND
Teacher to parents during meeting at school: “Your children will not
cope with the program without additional private lessons. Either me
or my friends can arrange for it”
35%
31%
30%
25%
19%
20%
15%
15%
15%
11%
9%
10%
5%
0%
1
2
3
4
5
1. Respondent does not consider such attitude as corruption
5. Respondent consider such attitude as definitely corruption
Program "Przeciw Korupcji" .RUXSFMD Z GRZLDGF]HQLX
codziennym
tr .p o w .
THE IMPACT OF CORRUPTION IN EDUCATION IN POLAND
Teachers accepting gifts from the class (worth more than $ 100)
5 0%
4 5%
4 0%
3 5%
3 0%
2 5%
2 0%
1 5%
1 0%
5%
0%
4 5%
1 3%
1 4%
1 3%
9%
1
2
3
4
6%
5
1. Respondent does not consider such attitude as corruption
5. Respondent consider such attitude as definitely corruption
Program "Przeciw Korupcji" .RUXSFMD Z GRZLDGF]HQLX
codziennym
tr.p o w .
THE IMPACT OF CORRUPTION IN EDUCATION IN POLAND
FUTURE PLANS
Activities proposed by Anti-Corruption Working Group
❧ social education and information campaign
❧ introducing standards for student assessment and
examinations in all types of schools
❧ undertaking legal actions against “buying”
examinations, selling and violating copy rights of
dissertations.
Anti-corruption strategies in Poland developed by Anti-Corruption Working Group