Університети і лідерство (Dec 2020)
Academic integrity: ethical and legal regulation in the university community
Abstract
The article substantiates the urgency of the problem of ethical and regulatory regulation of the process of formation of academic integrity in higher education institutions. The purpose of the article is to analyze the tools of ethical and regulatory regulation in the university community and highlight the practical experience of their implementation at the University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine. The content of the article reveals the essence of academic integrity, characterizes the types of its violations. The evolution of the creation of an international legal framework for the formation of academic integrity is traced. An analysis of the provisions of domestic legislation on academic integrity and the types of penalties for its violation. Normative documents of ethical and normative-legal regulation in the academic community of the University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine are considered. The peculiarities of the infrastructure and system organization of the university's activity on the formation of academic integrity are revealed. Based on the identified problems, the priority areas, forms and methods of the university's activities to improve the process under consideration are determined. The article uses such methods as: historical analysis; content analysis when working with ethical and administrative documents of a higher education institution; survey of research and teaching staff; quantitative analysis of automatic verification of texts of scientific articles for uniqueness. Research results. The analysis of the tools of ethical and normative-legal regulation of academic integrity revealed priority directions, mechanisms, forms and methods of work on formation of academic integrity and prevention of its violations by subjects of educational and scientific activity according to international standards. Based on the experience of the University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, the organizational management system of the process of formation of academic integrity in the university community is considered. Conclusion. The optimal results of ethical and normative-legal regulation of academic integrity have been achieved at the University of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine due to the functioning of the organizational management system of this process, created according to international standards.
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