During the summer examination session at KarIU, the university administration, the student parliament, the student club «Саналы ұрпақ», the Youth Affairs Committee, the Department for Educational Work and Youth Policy, together with the compliance officer, organized a large-scale anti-corruption campaign “Clean Session”.

The main goal of the action is the formation of legal consciousness and active citizenship of students, intolerance to manifestations of violations of the anti-corruption legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. According to the organizers, exposure to bribery is not an end in itself. The main intention of the initiators of the “Clean Session” action is to explain to the students who are getting engaged what corruption is and what its consequences may be.

As part of the Clean Session campaign, Karaganda Industrial University implemented measures to ensure the objectivity and transparency of the examination session, which are aimed at eliminating informal relations and corruption in the educational environment.

During the campaign, anti-corruption propaganda was carried out at the university: in all educational buildings of the university: traditionally placed «Trust boxes” for suggestions and comments, the Rector’s blog is maintained on the official website of the university, and in the section of the Commissioner for Ethics and Anti-Corruption Risks of KarIM there is a heading»   APPEAL OF STUDENTS ON THE FACTS OF VIOLATION OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY@, where each student can ask any questions on the examination session, the corresponding propaganda posters are placed on the stands.

Also, as part of the action, a survey is conducted among students on the subject of satisfaction with the quality of the provision of educational services and examinations, as well as a sociological survey devoted to the study of factors of manifestation of corruption in the student environment, open discussions of problems associated with negative facts during the examination session.

The leadership of the Karaganda Industrial University encourages students, undergraduates and doctoral students to take an active part in the prevention of the fight against corruption in the university, as well as control the conduct of the “Clean Session” and seek justice within their rights to quality education.