Daegu Office of Education, 19.8% of Executives Achieve Highest Integrity Rating... 6.9% Increase in One Year

Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education (Superintendent Kang Eun-hee) announced on the 12th the results of the ‘2023 High-ranking Public Officials Integrity Evaluation’ conducted from December 1 to 12 last year, targeting senior officials at grade 4 or higher within affiliated institutions (including grade 5 heads of institutions and education support office managers) and principals of national, public, and private schools.

This evaluation included education support office managers (grade 5) to better reflect voices from the field, increasing the number of subjects by 22 from the previous year to a total of 565. The evaluation covered two areas?‘job integrity’ and ‘efforts to practice integrity and leading by example’?with 13 evaluation items (out of 10 points). A total of 12,547 employees who had worked in the same department (school) for more than three months participated in the evaluation via text messages and emails.

Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education.

The overall average score of all subjects was 9.83 points, a slight decrease of 0.1 points compared to the previous year. However, the number of those receiving the ‘highest grade (perfect score of 10)’ increased by 42 (6.9 percentage points) to 112 people (19.8%) compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, the ‘caution grade (below 9.5 points to 9.0 points or above)’ included 31 people (5.5%), down by 1 person (0.4 percentage points) from the previous year, and the ‘needs improvement grade (below 9.0 points)’ slightly increased by 3 people (0.5 percentage points) to 13 people (2.3%) compared to the previous year.

The Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education plans to incorporate these results into the comprehensive 2024 integrity improvement plan to continuously maintain the high integrity of Daegu education by spreading a culture of integrity led by high-ranking public officials.

Kang Eun-hee, Superintendent of Daegu Education, stated, “Our high-ranking public officials will take the lead in spreading an organizational culture of empathy and communication, and we will continue to strive to create a clean Daegu education that the Daegu education community can truly feel.”

This year, the Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education plans to continuously implement various policies to spread the culture of integrity in Daegu education, including revitalizing internal anti-corruption and integrity organizations, strengthening anti-corruption education to eradicate power abuse, conducting high-ranking public officials integrity evaluations, assessing commitment to integrity improvement, monitoring personnel affairs, establishing online and offline networks through the public officials’ code of conduct field support team, and operating honorary auditors and corruption monitoring teams.

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