The Importance of Knowing and Applying of the Professional Legislation and Ethics in the Management of Educational Institutions to Combat Corruption

In some European countries, including Romania, affected by negative economic developments, education tends to be placed in a lower category of priorities. Corruption, ever more present after the 90s, began to be relatively recently present in the attention of the law enforcement institutions at all levels of the educational activity. Two of the methods of preventing and combating it are the knowledge of professional legislation and of the ethics in the Romanian educational system. We try to analyze some elements of educational management directly related to fighting intra-institutional corruption. We also approach specific legislative provisions to combat corruption ending with the presentation of such a concrete case.