Abstract: Openness in the work of state and municipal authorities and organizations is one of the basic principles in corruption prevention. The subject of this research is the normative acts and local normative acts that regulate the transition from paid to free education. Special attention is devoted to the analysis of the extent and accessibility of corresponding information on the official websites of federal universities. In the aspect of determination of anticorruption reserves, the research examines the state of the information, procedural and participative openness of this transition (on the example of federal universities). The conducted research allows concluding that federal universities generally ensure openness in the procedure of transitioning from paid to free education. At the same time, some colleges initiatively strive to provide full range of information needed for the students to transition to the free education. The level of procedural and participative openness differs from university to university.

Abstract: The subject of the research is the legislation about education and anti-corruption measures as well as local regulatory acts of higher education establishments. The authors of the article analyze the current state of the legal regulation of the state final certification procedure carried out at schools or universities (federal universities) for the purpose of discovering corruption risks. The authors focus on the discovery of corruption risks at each stage of state final certification (preparation, conduction, follow-up of results, and appeal) and development of prevention recommendations. In the course of their research the authors have used the dialectical research method as well as structured systems approach, comparative law, formal logic and others. The results of the research demonstrate that the preventive anti-corruption potential of local acts regulating the state final certification procedure at universities is way below the established procedure of state final certification (Unified State Exams at schools). The authors describe the main corruption risks that may arise at different stages of state final certification at school or university and make suggestions on how to improve the legal regulation of state final certification procedure taking into account the successful experience of the legal regulation of the aforesaid certification procedure.