Starting April 10 through April 15 ACTOIN Project will hold presentations of survey results on the state of corruption in the system of higher education for the media, NGOs and local authorities in 11 regional press-clubs.

Poll: Standardized External Tests decrease corruption in admissions process to Universities

Kyiv, April 9, 2008.

Today, the ACTION project and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology presented the results of its survey on corruption in the higher education sector, focusing in particular on the admissions process of 2007. The report concludes that standardized testing is substantially less corrupt than other knowledge evaluation processes during the university admissions process. Trust in the testing method depends substantially on having knowledge about it. Finally, citizens remain undecided about the effectiveness of the government’s actions to reduce corruption in the education sector.

On March 28, 2008 ACTION Project will hold a discussion of survey results “The Role of Investigative Journalism in Countering Corruption: Consequences and Sanctions”.  

Journalists who deal with local authorities, different organizations and in their work  may request access to official information are invited to participate in the trainings listed below:

March 28-29 - Simferopil

April 11-12 - Kharkiv

April 25-26 -  Luhansk

 May 23-24 (or 30-31) – Zaportizhzhia

 June 20-21 – Odesa 

Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers (UAPP) in partnership with Ukrainian Press Academy invite you to take part in the third training of the series "Journalistic Investigation as a Genre.  Role of Management."

Trainings are conducted as a part of the «Increasing the Attractiveness of the Employment  of Journalistic Investigations in the Practice of the Current Ukrainian Media» Project  with the support of the Promoting Active Citizen Engagement in Combating Corruption in Ukraine Project.