Corruption in Education

By an anonymous student

Corruption is done by one on group of people who has a lot of power. Their goal is to acquire any kind of financial and other material values in illegal way and spread on use this pecuniary by oneself. It means that again our people and country suffer from such kind of serious menace.

Unfortunately corruption is one of the huge problems in our country. Corruption exists in each field and it seems that our country can’t survive without out it but it’s useless. If we take into consideration our economy and also our natural resources with corruption it’s too difficult to imagine our future and we don’t know what will happen tomorrow with our beautiful country.
In this dark forest we can find out the only right and light way to develop our country with educated professionals and trained personnel who know their job. But you can find corruption here too.

For our small country, there are a lot of universities and people with diplomas. If you would like to enter the best universities first of all you should pay a lot of money for it. After entering, during both semesters, you should pass each class for money. Millions of students pay money for their education, pass exams for money, and they often get diplomas without knowing anything about their professions. There are only a few students who study honestly but even good students are sometimes made by their teachers to give bribes because some teachers don’t want to give the student the mark they deserve.

Also you can acquire the diplomas in this way too. In Kyrgyzstan, after graduating from the university students get two kinds of diplomas: honor diplomas or "red" diplomas for excellent achievement and a simple one or "blue" diploma for good achievement. So after university you can find a well paid job only by good acquaintances; of course, here money plays a big role too. And after getting over this kind of thievery the new "specialist" would be a bribe-taker for everyone because he used to study for money and did everything with the help of money and he tried to return all of his expenditures. It is a big mess in society without beginning and ending.

Our country is backward and stopped developing because of corruption in the education and that is the big reason for our trouble. Our government doesn’t care about it and even doesn’t try to stop this mess. The person who does a crime like this is supposed to go to prison for 8-15 years and have their property confiscated and have no right to be in the government or engaged in business for three years. But it rarely works.

The reason is the local government closes their eyes to it because they are working in this system and it seems that everyone is satisfied with it. This huge problem is deeply buried in the people’s consciousness and each youth who should develop our Kyrgyzstan grew up with corruption and everything is easy for them if they have money. They don’t understand that corruption is profitable only under certain conditions.

Nobody knows what our country will be like in 30, 50 or 100 years. How our children and grandchildren will live. They don’t understand yet that corruption is destroying us and Kyrgyzstan could disappear in the future. The new generation should understand it and try to prevent corruption in education because corruption begins from it. We must remember that we can do almost everything honestly with our own hands and begin to study using our brain to get a good education without buying marks and diplomas. You know a diploma is just paper and it isn’t important. The most important thing is our mind. I mean we should be professionals in our fields and teachers will give a good mark for your abilities with great pleasure if you are eager and bright and remember that "knowledge is power." I hope everybody will understand it and then corruption in our country would be less. I have said less because it couldn’t disappear forever. But it’s never too late to mend. Now we are building our house after several years and we will live in it and we shouldn’t waste out time and we must work hard because education is one precious inheritance that has been left to us by our parents. So out future is in our hands and we’ll have to wait and see.