Academic Integrity in Higher Educational Institutions in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic: World Experience and Ukrainian Realities

Abstract

Distance learning and online evaluation created challenges for academic integrity because academic dishonesty has become widespread. The article deals with actual problems of observance of academic integrity in higher educational institutions in Ukraine generally and during the transition to online training. Analysis of divergent world’s rankings is demonstrated the close interrelation among the quality of educational system and total level of economic welfare and prosperity of the country, where academic integrity is a primary indicator of the quality of education. Today Ukraine has a lot of actual problems of observance of academic integrity in higher educational institutions generally and during the transition to online learning. Based on the world experience of observance of academic integrity, Ukraine needs profound transformational change. Results demonstrated that it is necessary to form a new policy-making of academic integrity and a new culture in universities in Ukraine, where the dedication of academic integrity should become fundamentally important for any open and democratic society. Higher educational institutions should bear primary responsibility for maintaining academic integrity in the academic society, perform their main assignments effectively, and each participant should be given a certain role, rights, obligations and responsibility.