Strategic corruption risk assessment in general secondary and pre-school education: executive summary

General secondary and preschool education is one of the areas where citizens point to the widespread experience of corruption. At the same time, the experience in kindergarten and school forms value orientations of an individual. Corruption and related management practices and organisational culture in an educational institution create an unfavourable environment for the formation of a child's value orientations. That is why it is important to minimize corruption risks at these levels of education, and especially now, in the conditions of war for universal human values, such as freedom and dignity. Education is also a strategic priority in Ukraine’s recovery process, recognized both by the state and civil society. This executive summary presents the main take-aways of the report “Strategic corruption risk assessment in primary and secondary education”. The original report identified 35 corruption risks in four main processes in the management of general secondary and preschool education: financing, the appointment of heads of educational institutions, administration of educational institutions, and the educational process. Corruption risks in relevant legal acts were separately analysed.