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Acting on a Taliban mandate, some 400 private schools in Pakistan’s northwest Swat Valley were closed down, ending the education of more than 40,000 students. The Swat Valley is yet another one among Taliban-controlled places where basic human rights are trampled upon. The academe is a place where minds are wrought, reasoning skills are honed, and [...]

The faculty’s treatment of student behavior has a considerable influence on the attendant values-formation of students as well as their willingness to adhere to standards, yet the effect of students’ dishonesty and unethical practices has received less focus as seen through the scarcity of information regarding the prevalence of dishonesty (Swazey, [...]

Ethics in an academic environment readily implies the issue of cheating in its many variegated forms. In turn, cheating implies the concepts of honesty and integrity. The academe is so important, and comes with tremendous pressure, that students are willing to cheat. Plagiarism is one of the more glaring examples of this kind of cheating. The external [...]