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Finally, academic institutions should take full responsibility themselves, readily and willingly, in instituting the moral values of honesty and integrity among students. Ethics in an academic environment will only be reactive, even reactionary, if the academic institution merely waits for the time when these values shall have been ingrained in the [...]

Distance education is a relatively new academic method and has been proving to be convenient and effective. Distance education is right in the center of a situation where technology and the Internet are the very ways to exist because most student cheating uses, in one way or another, technological methods such as the Internet where students copy and [...]

If students have to live through routine and situations of overwork, they will tend to lose interest in the very essence of learning and will fall into the rut of cheating tactics such as plagiarism. The role of academic administrators is vital in curbing the rising trend in student dishonesty. An overworked student who suffers from mental fatigue 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 [...]