Abstract
The research aims to define the scope and challenges of intellectual property rights protection in higher schools of Ukraine and offer recommendations to address those for higher education officials and university leaders. The findings of the research rely on the results of an anonymous expert survey conducted among non-law students of two institutions of higher education using a specially designed questionnaire. They reveal a significantly low level of students’ awareness and knowledge of intellectual property rights, academic integrity, and protection thereof, which undermines the internal education quality. At the same time, there exists a high demand for receiving the relevant knowledge within the university programmes the students are enrolled in. It, therefore, seems expedient to design and include “Intellectual Property and Academic Integrity” as a subject in the curricula of higher educational institutions of Ukraine to be taught at the first year of training, and develop a special course in the fundamentals of intellectual property and academic writing to build the students’ relevant competences. Similarly, it is essential that the teaching staff should be trained accordingly and have the relevant powers and tools to impart and enforce academic integrity rights protection.
Highlights
Higher education in Ukraine is developing with a view to create an educational environment that would be free of academic dishonesty and intellectual property rights infringements. is finds confirmation in the substantial changes that have recently occurred in the legislation of Ukraine regulating the educational relations. us, the laws of Ukraine “On Education” adopted in 2017 and amended in 2020 [1] and “On Higher Education” adopted in 2014 and amended in 2020 [2] compel higher education institutions operating in the territory of Ukraine to ensure internal education quality, including by creating a system of and mechanisms for ensuring academic integrity
It has created a wide range of opportunities for copying and recreating the author’s studies and know-how and committing other actions that infringe intellectual property rights, threaten such infringements to occur, or create other negative consequences that may be viewed as a result of imperfections in the legal regulations in this regard, or arise from lack of the relevant knowledge among the education participants
E non-law students were surveyed from two higher educational institutions: Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy (UEPA) and Kharkiv National Pharmaceutical University (KhNPhU). ey comprised 69 students majoring in pedagogical and pharmaceutical sciences. e choice of these two institutions of higher education was conditioned by the following reasons: (1) e Law of Ukraine “On Education” adopted in 2017 for the first time provides for the need to observe academic integrity rules, copyright, and related rights in educational institutions of different levels [1]
Summary
Academic Integrity in Higher Education of Ukraine: Current State and Call for Action. E research aims to define the scope and challenges of intellectual property rights protection in higher schools of Ukraine and offer recommendations to address those for higher education officials and university leaders. E findings of the research rely on the results of an anonymous expert survey conducted among non-law students of two institutions of higher education using a specially designed questionnaire. Ey reveal a significantly low level of students’ awareness and knowledge of intellectual property rights, academic integrity, and protection thereof, which undermines the internal education quality. Seems expedient to design and include “Intellectual Property and Academic Integrity” as a subject in the curricula of higher educational institutions of Ukraine to be taught at the first year of training, and develop a special course in the fundamentals of intellectual property and academic writing to build the students’ relevant competences. It is essential that the teaching staff should be trained and have the relevant powers and tools to impart and enforce academic integrity rights protection
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