Chapter 5 - Conclusion

The main objectives of this project were to discover the causes of corrupt teachers and students and to suggest some more feasible solutions in order to avoid the rate of corruption in education sector which is widespread in Kazakhstan and has a great influence on the political and economic structure of the state. As was described in Chapter 4, research indicates that teachers from public universities are more corrupt than teachers from private universities, which can be attributed to their low salaries. However, we cannot exclude the possibility that students from private universities simply hide their own and their teachers’ involvement in corruption. Nonetheless, according to the survey which was made in March 2011, corruption is much more common at public universities. During the time which was spent on this research project, I came to the conclusion that one of the main causes of corruption is that the concept of helping relatives is an important characteristic of the Kazakh people, a factor that promotes corruption. Although nepotism is generally considered as a branch of corruption, Kazakhstani students and teachers usually cannot perceive it as corruption due to their upbringing and moral principles.

As for the solutions, three interviewees shared different opinions and offers on fight against corruption. This might be related to their different occupation and various professional environments where they rotate. In other words, the problem of corruption was contemplated from the three angles of these people. In my point of view, I support the solutions given my the researcher Orkodashvili (whose work was about Geogria’s experience in prevention corruption in education) and I thinks that setting some TV programs about cases of corruption in any sector, and showing this people might be a push for people also to help them to better understand their preferences and change their attitude towards corruption at all. As for the analyses, the results taken only from this survey and interviews cannot be as reliable and precise as it could be due to some limitations. If the research project had been based on a social survey on a certain territory in the Republic of Kazakhstan (not only among twenty students, but also among adults and some civil servants had been surveyed and interviewed), the results and the real solutions would have come in accordance with them.

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Appendix

Sample questionnaire:

1. Do you think that corruption exist at your university? Yes No

a) If yes, what causes the existence of corruption?

2. Is there any community which deals with corruption issue at your university? Yes No

a) If yes, which measures have been done to prevent corruption?

3. Have you ever given bribes to the teachers? Yes No

a) If yes, why? How much money did you pay?

4. Can you tell some cases of corruption?

5. Which factor can help to prevent corruption at your university?

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