scholarly journals Ethical regulation of students’ using information: The comparative case study of Russian and US universities

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
T. Eremenko
Keyword(s):  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Regulation Mechanism ◽  
Ethical Codes ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Russian Universities ◽  
University Community

The findings of the comparative study of documents representing the process of supporting the academic ethical values in students' information activities are presented. The empirical data were obtained as a result of analysis of 24 ethical codes of Russian universities and documentation of the Harvard University Honor Council. The documents indicating the practice of ethical regulation in the field of students' work with information loaded to the official websites of Russian universities are studied. The procedures of the Harvard Honor Council are discussed, the statistics of violations of academic integrity examined by the Honor Council is analyzed. The author concludes that Russian universities are at the initial stage of implementing full-fledged system of ethical regulation of the university community activities, and their initiatives aimed at approval of their ethical codes are primarily of the declarative nature. Based on the study of documented practice of the Harvard Honor Council, it is demonstrated how a well-developed ethical regulation mechanism provides for efficient control over the observance of the principles of academic integrity that are postulated in Harvard's Code of Honor. The conclusion about the high degree of influence of the “Codes of Honor” on the US university community is made.

scholarly journals Academic integrity: ethical and legal regulation in the university community

2021 ◽  
pp. 120-141
Author(s):  
Yevhen Sulima ◽  
Svіtlana Dienizhna
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Management System ◽  
Organizational Management ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
The University ◽  
University Community

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.

scholarly journals University community attitudes to the use of genetic editing

Quaestum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Pedro Alexander Velasquez Vasconez ◽  
Wendy Teresa Abregu Olarte ◽  
Priscila Fortes
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Community Attitudes ◽  
Genetic Intervention ◽  
Degree Of Acceptance ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
High Degree ◽  
University Community

Genetic editing has many applications in all areas of society but it can also have unpredictable consequences. The objective of this research was to study the attitudes of the university community to the use of genetic editing in agricultural, environment, health and improvement of the human species. Students completed an online questionnaire written in three languages such as English, Spanish and Portuguese, which was made available in nine countries. Knowledge of words associated with the genetic editing technique increases with the level of education of the students. Doctoral students showed greater support for genetic editing in humans. There is a high degree of acceptance for genome modification techniques for purposes such as consumption, industry or health (~70%). While it had a great rejection (78%) to the genetic intervention for the improvement of physical or cognitive characteristics. Most student’s express that the government should regulate and invest in research on genetic editing. Most students are optimistic or slightly optimistic about advances in this technology, especially for the benefit of health and the agricultural sector. This research provides an overview of students’ opinion of the genetic editing and serves as a basis for future studies.

The academic profession in Russia’s two capitals: The impact of 20 years of transition

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 626-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizaveta Sivak ◽  
Maria Yudkevich
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Academic Profession ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Personal Strain ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Russian Universities

This paper studies the dynamics of key characteristics of the academic profession in Russia based on the analysis of university faculty in the two largest cities in Russia – Moscow and St Petersburg. We use data on Russian university faculty from two large-scale comparative studies of the academic profession (‘The Carnegie Study’ carried out in 1992 in 14 countries, including Russia, and ‘The Changing Academic Profession Study’, 2007–2012, with 19 participating countries and which Russia joined in 2012) to look at how faculty’s characteristics and attitudes toward different aspects of their academic life changed over 20 years (1992–2011) such as faculty’s views on reasons to leave or to stay at a university, on university’s management and the role of faculty in decision making. Using the example of universities in the two largest Russian cities, we demonstrate that the high degree of overall centralization of governance in Russian universities barely changed in 20 years. Our paper provides comparisons of teaching/research preferences and views on statements concerning personal strain associated with work, academic career perspectives, etc., not only in Russian universities between the years 1992 and 2012, but also in Russia and other ‘Changing Academic Profession’ countries.

ON METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO TRAINING FUTURE TEACHERS OF KAZAKHSTAN FOR UPBRINGING WORK

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Zh. KolumbayevaSh. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Spiritual Renewal ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The University ◽  
High Degree

Globalization, informatization, digitalization, led to large-scale changes that have problematized the modern process of upbringing. The modern practice of upbringing in Kazakhstan is aimed at solving the problem of forming an intellectual nation. The key figure in the upbringing process is the teacher. The modernization of public consciousness taking place in Kazakhstan, the renewal of both the content of education and the system of upbringing require understanding not only the content, but also the methodology of the professional training of teachers for the upbringing of children, for the organization of the upbringing system in educational organizations. We believe that the analysis of traditional and clarification of modern methodological foundations of professional training of future teachers of Kazakhstan for upbringing work will give us the opportunity to develop a strategy for training future teachers in the conditions of spiritual renewal of Kazakhstan's society. The article reveals the experience of Abai KazNPU. As a result of the conducted research, we came to the conclusion that the process of training a teacher in Kazakhstan, who has a high degree of ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity, requires strengthening the upbringing and socializing components of the educational process of the university. The strategy of professional training of a modern teacher should be a polyparadigmatic concept with the leading role of ideas of personality-oriented, competence paradigm.

scholarly journals University Community Engagement and the Strategic Planning Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Newton Miller
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
User Experience Design ◽  
Strategic Planning Process ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
The University ◽  
University Community

Objectives- To understand how university libraries are engaging with the university community (students, faculty, campus partners, administration) when working through the strategic planning process. Methods- Literature review and exploratory open-ended survey to members of CAUL (Council of Australian University Librarians), CARL (Canadian Association of Research Libraries), CONZUL (Council of New Zealand University Librarians), and RLUK (Research Libraries UK) who are most directly involved in the strategic planning process at their library. Results- Out of a potential 113 participants from 4 countries, 31 people replied to the survey in total (27%). Libraries most often mentioned the use of regularly-scheduled surveys to inform their strategic planning which helps to truncate the process for some respondents, as opposed to conducting user feedback specifically for the strategic plan process. Other quantitative methods include customer intelligence and library-produced data. Qualitative methods include the use of focus groups, interviews, and user experience/design techniques to help inform the strategic plan. The focus of questions to users tended to fall towards user-focused (with or without library lens), library-focused, trends & vision, and feedback on plan. Conclusions- Combining both quantitative and qualitative methods can help give a fuller picture for librarians working on a strategic plan. Having the university community join the conversation in how the library moves forward is an important but difficult endeavour. Regardless, the university library needs to be adaptive to the rapidly changing environment around it. Having a sense of how other libraries engage with the university community benefits others who are tasked with strategic planning

scholarly journals Conceptual provisions of information systematization to analyze the financial sustainability of the university

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 711-724
Author(s):  
Artem V. KRIVOSHEEV
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Financial Sustainability ◽  
Comparison Results ◽  
The University ◽  
High Degree

Subject. This article explores the need of public sector organizations, and universities in particular, to classify the source data to conduct a reliable and trustworthy analysis of their financial stability. Objectives. The article aims to develop information support for a comprehensive economic analysis of the financial stability of the university by determining the sources of data used to analyze its financial stability. Methods. For the study, I used the methods of analysis, synthesis, and comparison. Results. Based on the study of accounting (financial) reporting indicators, the article proposes to determine three levels of data systematization, i.e. managerial, departmental, and public ones. The article substantiates proposals to clarify the provisions of the Instructions on the preparation, presentation of the annual, quarterly accounting of State (municipal) budgetary and autonomous institutions for economic analysis of the financial stability of public sector institutions. Conclusions. The current state of the methods used to assess financial stability makes it difficult to widely disseminate and implement them in the analytical activities of public sector institutions, including universities. Practical application of the original developments by grouping data sources to analyze the financial stability of the university, as well as the division of these groups into levels will help provide the most objective assessment, which will have a high degree of confidence in the assessment of the financial sustainability of budgetary and autonomous institutions of higher education.

scholarly journals An examination of factors related to plagiarism and a five-year follow-up of plagiarism at an Australian university

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy J Curtis ◽  
Razma Popal
Keyword(s):  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
Student Plagiarism ◽  
Perceived Seriousness ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Integrity Issue

In this paper we report the results of a survey of student plagiarism carried out at the University of Western Sydney (UWS). This survey examined rates of plagiarism,understanding of plagiarism, perceived seriousness of plagiarism, and factors thought to be related to plagiarism such as the pressure students place on themselves to achieve high grades. Students who achieved higher grades plagiarised less than students who had lower grades. Perceived seriousness of plagiarism, students' competitiveness, and students' self-imposed pressure to achieve high grades were correlated negatively with incidence of plagiarism. Perceived seriousness of plagiarism mediated the relationship between self-imposed pressure to achieve good grades and rates of plagiarism. The data from the present survey (conducted in 2009) were compared with data from comparable students who completed the same survey at UWS five years earlier (2004). The comparison between the 2009 and 2004 data suggested a reduction in prevalence of plagiarism and an increase in both understanding and perceived seriousness of plagiarism between 2004 and 2009. We suggest that plagiarism may be reduced by means of educational programs that promote the perception of plagiarism as a serious academic integrity issue.

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