TOPICAL PROBLEMS OF LEGAL REGULATION OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN EDUCATION

Abstract

The article specifies topical issues of legislative regulation of the conflict of interest in education. The analysis of the law allowed identifying the features and main problems of regulation in the given field. One of the most "malignant problems", which is a destabilizing factor in the strengthening and development of the entire educational system as a whole - corruption - has formed in the educational environment over the last years. The experience of the Russian Federation in the fight against corruption in the field of education has demonstrated the need for an integrated approach and effective measures that are possible only in the presence of optimal and systemic anti-corruption legislation. The author highlights the main causes of corruption in the activities of the teaching staff, as well as the necessity to clarify the positions specified in the Federal law "On anti-corruption activities", because from a legal point of view, the rules of the Federal law regulate the legal status of state and municipal employees, but are applicable to the teaching staff, despite the fact that they do not have the appropriate status. On the basis of the analyzed facts, the author substantiates the need to consolidate at the legislative level a list of situations in which a conflict of interest becomes apparent, which will resolve the problem of the correct qualification of the conflict of interest situation. It is revealed that the legal regulation of the situation "conflict of interests of a member of the teaching staff" requires amendments at the legislative level. The necessity of mandatory regulation of this situation by local acts of educational organizations is established.