KYRGYZSTAN TODAY Policy briefs on - Department of Geography

5. To develop a salary scheme for the faculty and others working in higher
education, which would include not only their academic degree, but also their years of
experience.
6. To develop a system of social services and protection for the faculty.
7. To find additional funds in the state budget in order to increase salaries of
university instructors.
8. To develop a course on combating corruption and introduce it in the curricula of
higher education facilities.
9. To formulate and to adopt a Code of Ethics for people working in the area of
education.
10. To develop a standard contract on providing education services to students.
II. At university level
To university management:
1. To consider various ways of improving the management system in a given
university.
2. To increase salaries of the faculty using tuition fees paid by students.
3. To develop a system of stimulating instructors for their creative approaches to
education (e.g., bonuses).
4. To facilitate development of a course on combating corruption and introducing
it into the curricula of higher education facilities.
5. To introduce trust lines and hotlines to report cases of corruption in these
universities.
6. To establish standing commissions in universities comprised of university
management, mostly dealing with human resources and educational work, as well as
instructors and students in order to study cases of corruption.
7. To strengthen internal disciplinary and administrative liability of administrative
workers, instructors and students of these universities for committing corruption-related
crimes.
8. To establish commissions comprised of instructors, students, parents, university
management and stakeholders (profile NGOs, public organizations, etc.) that would
implement continuous control over budget and equipment allocation and the use of
university infrastructure.
9. To establish a system of informing the faculty and students about managerial
decisions made in their university, and to ensure the transparency of such decisions.
10. To involve and stimulate active participation of students in combating corruption
in their universities.
To the faculty of universities:
1. To fully comply with anticorruption legislation and Code of Ethics for people
working in the area of education, and to facilitate colleagues to also do so.
2. To talk to students about the negative impact of corruption in general, and in
the higher education system in particular, as well as the penalties for corruption-related
offences, and to involve students in combating corruption in their universities.
3. To suppress any attempts of bribes offered by the students.
4. To participate actively in the public life of universities on the issue of combating
corruption, and to make proposals for improvements in this area.
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