As a result...professors/instructors become soft targets for bribes.
Students get into school because they bribe school officials. Students get good grades because they buy them.
The result is that the once top-notch Soviet education system is now turning out doctors, lawyers and other professionals that are far from qualified.
A police spokesman says some 30-40 professors are caught EACH YEAR accepting bribes for good grades and almost that many cases of bribe-taking by university admissions staff in the past five years.
At a school where I recently taught there was one department chair who was particularly favored by his students because he gave out lots of good grades...earned or not.
In time, the administration caught on and the department chair was let go.
Not long after that, some of the students who graduated with honors while he was their chair started re-appearing, wondering if they could audit classes they had supposedly gotten an "A" in the first time around.
It turns out, the real test was when they showed up at the work place and could NOT do what their transcripts said they could.
Russia had good quality schools. And I have many Russian friends who are hard working professors. It's a shame to see the education system degenerate this way.
What do you think?
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